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The VIN tag and additional flaws in the interest of full disclosure

Just took some, definitely the roughest part of the truck:

Hi everyone, I've made the difficult decision to part with my '89 cruiser. She has just over 138K miles on the clock, original motor and transmission. Virtually no body rust, just a small bubble over the rear left fender and the front edge of the lower drivers door. She's been resprayed at...

I couldn’t tell you just where it was sticking, the cable just wasn’t retracting when warm. Fortunately, gravity is in our favor from the throttle body so I just kept cable lube going in as I saw bubbles coming out, used a cable lubricator and kept working it back and forth until it moved freely.

That occurred to me about halfway into the process but I figured I was committed at that point and an ounce or two of cable lube wasn’t gonna do any real harm. Guess we’ll see lol.

So it appears the kickdown cable was sticking. A whole bunch of cable lube later she’s freed up. Thanks again!

Yeah, I had the tranny go in my ‘88 at about 120K but it spent more than a few of those miles pulling a horse trailer lol. I’d LOVE to throw a H55 in this thing, I just don’t have the coin for it right now and that money would be more fun sunk into twin snails for my Taco :) (which is a 6MT)

Thanks. Yeah, I've read about the party trick but haven't worked up the gonads to actually try it. I'll check the fluid level hot as well next time. This truck only has 136K miles on it so I'm hoping there's plenty of life left in the tranny. Edit: now that I know what a kick down cable is a...

Hey everybody, I apologize if this has been asked and answered already but I couldn't find my exact problem after searching. My '89 FJ62 develops some wonky shifts after driving for about 15-20 minutes. It's fine cold, but after a while the shift points get really high, 3K RPM or higher and if...

https://forum.ih8mud.com/60-series-wagons/375874-broken-rear-upper-shock-mount-tube.html Doh! Thanks again.