C and c for pccc just posted a little bit ago. If you are a Utah area mag that likes cars, it's the best one around...
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Thanks guys for the opinions on the different tire sizes, greatly appreciated.
Rotors, pads, flush.
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All signs pointed to a bad alternator. Amazingly failed the morning before I am installing a new HD radiator. (Alternator removal requires removing a radiator pipe.)
Alternator Passed the bench test on 4 successive tests... 14.5V. ???
Check every wire and connection, none over 1.2 ohms, all voltages true...
On S/U, still have Charge and Brake idiot lights. Battery voltage only. [emoji1361]
I have enough battery to drive the few blocks to the O’ store. Manager hooks up the hand held tester, quickly gives a Fail. One bad diode. [emoji82]
Grab another unit, get way too deep in a wiring project while it cools enough to drain. On S/U, no idiot lights. Solid 14.5V. 🤠
Had the kid retest the old one again. Pass, Pass, Pass, Fail, Fail.
Don’t trust the bench test machine.
In the last week, I added Timbren bump stops on the front and rear of the land cruiser. Bought extra soft ones for the front and absolutely love the results. Rears are for towing my homemade camp trailer and I don't even feel them DDing.
Today I cleaned the MAF sensor and douched the Throttle Body. Pretty easy sans a few mistakes. Overall she sounds and drives much happier now, though.
I have to do this on my truck seat...I'm lazy. Looks great.
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The agony of defeat.
Spent 9 hours going into my 22re to replace the plastic timing chain guide. Put it all back together and it's just flowing coolant out the passenger side.
Did it again in 3 hours today, still leaking, but only a little bit.
God dammit.
Going to have to do this all over again a third time and really, really look closely at everything and try to do this bitch right. So frustrating!
Did the chain come off creating the need to repair, or is this a preemptive work? If the former, it may have gouged a hole in the cover. Been some time since I worked on a 22re, but that’s what happened to me. Lucky I had a spare 22r engine to steal the cover off of.
Yeah, I have a mechanic friend who buzzed a muffler onto the truck for me last month. He drove it from my place to the shop and heard the chain rattle and told me I'd need to eventually replace the chain guide or it would eat through the timing cover and mix coolant + oil and kill the engine.
So, preemptive. There was a pretty good groove worn into the old cover, but there was quite a bit of material left. I left all the rest of the chain and sprockets stuff and just replaced the shitty plastic guide.
Finally got it back together for the third time yesterday, was very very careful this time. I went with a new timing cover, but frustratingly, it was just a hair thicker than the old one, so I had to open up the oil pan bolts and fight with the one through the head and the big bolt that holds the alternator bracket was only grabbing like 2 threads so I had to get a longer one from the hardware store.
Interestingly, this morning when I was test driving it, my friend texted me asking if I was interested in selling it....which is more or less why I've been trying to get all this done. So it's all but sold at this stage.
I think the only good vehicle sale for me would be to sell a piece of shit to somebody I don't like. If the rig is good, I regret selling a good rig. If it's not good, I regret selling something that's not good to somebody who will have to deal with the problems. All of this has somehow worsened as I get older....I think probably because I have so many transactions I regret, so it's hard to enter into one without imagining regretting it in the future.
I would do best with one of those flatlands farm and barn type of setups where you can just keep everything forever. Unfortunately, I'm in a city environment in a region where things rust hard and fast and car insurance is the most expensive in the country so extra vehicles are tough. Still, it makes me a little sick to sell stuff. I'm on the hoarder spectrum. Shit.
Sounds like me. My shed is full of old surfboards, tools, skis, and other shit I'll probably won't use. But, I hate selling stuff so it just sits there. My problem is I have a couple of boards and trucks that I sold that were magic and I wish I didn't. So now I'm hesitant to get rid of anything. Every few years I'll force myself to purge stuff because I also don't live somewhere with a ton of space.
Sold! $1500
I’m like the bobby stainless of dangerously-rusty heaps.
Bought tires for the 4R this winter and needed a place to put them because they are huge and I have snow tires for all three cars. Found this on Amazon. Bought it because it matched my setup.
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That garage is in my annoying but shouldn't list...wish my garage looked like that. But I did find pieces in my junk boxes to plug the radiator drain leak on my '89 F-250. A spare tube from another vehicle that I cut a length from, some hose clamps I found and a .308 brass that fit the tube perfectly as a plug.
Not wanting to replace the radiator for a petcock that won't stay closed, I found bits to plug the drain that is reversible when I want or need to drain it. I think the female parts around the drain in the radiator are worn to the point a new petcock isn't shutting off tight.
Put this in the things that amuse me thread as well...I got to say petcock now three times and can't be accused of being profane. God forbid being 'profane', right? Saying that amuses me also.
Air conditioning drive belt snapped on my pickup on the way camping this weekend (GM used an individual belt for the AC for this truck, everything else on one serpentine belt). Got home, pulled the serpentine belt to check for tensioner issues and any other accessory bearings gone bad, and...
The main tensioner pulley is noisy and sloppy. The AC tensioner doesn't turn at all - which would explain the belt snappage.
Rockauto has a kit with both tensioners and both belts. Hopefully this fixes all the issues.
In googling this, I saw a video on belt issue diagnosis from Gates. The noise on the video as a demonstration of a bad tensioner pulley is the same intermittent noise I've had from the truck for awhile. It wasn't really squeaky or a squeal, just kind of noisy bearings, and I wasn't sure which one it was, so thought I'd wait until it got worse and then find it. The snapped belt pinpointed it.
I've never had a total AC failure on a car, but it looks expensive if the compressor etc has to be replaced - hoping this is just tensioner issues on my truck. Parts ordered, will be here Thursday, hopefully installed Friday. Paid a couple $ more to get parts delivered fast from Amazon instead of Rockauto.
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