Mark W

A good undamaged shaft will swap in no problem. The teeth and splines on the shaft are not gear teeth so there is no concerns about differing wear patterns causing noise. Mark...

Hopefully, the handful of facts that I tossed out there along with all my pontificating, will be of some assistance and understanding of what you've got going on. 😉 Mark...

I see a charge for "grind lifters" on your invoice. I do not see anything about the cam. You don't "polish and grind" lifters. You resurface them so that the surface is as new and then you install them with a new or "reground" (made new again)...

I've been running the Scepter cans for 20-20+ years now I guess. I have about a dozen. I have used them pretty hard. The internal vent assembly broke on one of them, but it still works. Just does not pour quite as fast at full tilt. Still beats...

The rest of my first post... Other than the gauge, how do you know it is hot? Have you taken any actual temp readings? Based strictly on the info you have provided so far, my money is on the gauge being the actual problem. Mark...

The tab will interfere with the waterpump if you install the gasket backwards and it will not fit. Unless you do something stupid... like cutting it off. Mark...

The tab is SUPPOSED to be sticking out the back. Your picture clearly shows (in the mirror) that it is. Mark...

If someone wanted to install the head gasket backwards, they would have to cut the tab off of the back end in order to do so. The tab is there for exactly this reason. To ensure the gasket can not be put in backwards. Not an easy mistake to make...

I can't say that I've noticed any improvements in how the 2F runs. It is a 2F after all. I had a Downey header on a FJ60 that I swapped over to the FJ40, and the Downey was IMO the best of the headers available at the time. It eventually...

My experience with pre-cat 2Fs is that there is in fact a big difference between the stock manifold and pretty much any tubular header. Even on an otherwise stock engine, the difference was always notable. Mark...

3FE exhaust on the 2F is another option https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/3fe-exhaust-on-2f-head.955034/

The thin steel tubes of an exhaust header lets more sound loose into the engine compartment that the thick heavy cast iron factory manifold. But I don't think this is what you are talking about? The exhaust sound that a rig makes.. the sound you...

There is a "trick" that can come in handy if you want to lift the rig some as you pull it forward. But it calls for a bit of gear carried with you and preparedness. It is not something you will use often, but we have done it once or twice when...

Thanks for this Mark, thats alot of info, the engines a 4.0 diesel... l'm coming to the conclusion l might've previously over tightened the cap & shaved some alloy off the threads. The trucks going into the garage on Monday whilst its there l'll...

I am not a real fan of metal jerry cans. I am generally old school guy on just about everything. But good milspec plastic fuel cans have been out there since the early 90s... if not longer. So I guess I can kinda sorta call them old(ish) school...

A lot of times brass or aluminum need to be etched for paint to adhere well. There are chemical ways to do it, as well as etching primers. Perhaps that is the difference with a radiator specific paint?

A radiator will never get hot enough to need "high temp" paint. And I have no idea what could possibly be special about "radiator paint" other than marketing. A radiator can not rust. It is either brass (OEM) or aluminum or some combination of...

While there somewhere in the automotive universe be master cylinders with "built in bias" there is nothing like that going on in any master cylinder you are going to buy at the parts store and bolt into your Cruiser. What you have heard about...

Did you check the battery voltage with the probes on the battery posts... or on the cable ends? Additionally, just because the connection between the two might support full voltage at the micro current needed for the tester, that does not mean...

Replace your s***ty old battery terminals with some good ones and then come back if you still have a problem. Will I promise this is the issue? Nope. But you really need to put some good brass marine style terminals (with crimped on lugs) under...

Have you seen the capacitor style jump boxes? Now those do get my attention. You charge them up when you are ready to use them. Unless you battery has been physically damaged or has been connected to a load for long term, draining it down to the...

Nope. Personally I WILL confidently assume that anyone who can afford to own a Cruiser and afford the assortment of other gear that they damn well better have to take it places where they will not have outside infrastructure to support them...

3FE uses an oil pan gasket. 1FZ does not. Did you hold your tongue just right, cross your fingers just so and spin backwards 3 times as you changed the oil? That is probably what did it. ;) Mark...

The valve stems are not separate piece. They are simply the top end of the valve. They are not replaced separately. The valve face and seat will normally wear out long before the tip of the stem does. Any wear on the tip is normally addressed...

Well, since you went there first... Try to be sure this new friend has a bit of mechanical knowledge. That can be pretty handy. ;) Seriously though, you do need to find a local to you knowledge source. When you are starting way down on the...