Recent content by fordoford

CEL has been on for a little while for EGR. Hasn’t caused me problems so haven’t gotten around to fixing. I’ll look into that Sunday the 80 ran fine all day. Started up perfectly lots of times and idled/drove great all day without me doing anything to fix it. I didn’t drive it yesterday until...

This morning I went out to start the 80, and it fired up and ran just fine as I let it warm up for a couple minutes as I went back and forth grabbing stuff. Got in and switched on the headlights and it instantly died. Now it will only crank if I give it some gas, and will only run while I’m...

Out of town currently and couldn’t replicate the problem properly yesterday for a video. It’s definitely a shake. Through the whole driveline. 97 LX450 with 240k miles. Most recent service was tires about 10k ago, and rebuilt passenger side axle about 10k ago also

That would be awesome… I’m up in Boone but will be back in Charlotte December 9th I believe. If that day would work for you I’d love to get a hands on opinion from someone who knows these better than I do. Let me know and no worries if that doesn’t work

Will check on this when I get the chance. I would need to be in 4lo to lock the center diff, and my concern is I won’t be able to get to the driving conditions needed to induce the problem in 4lo. Any way to work around that?

I’d say vibration is more in the seat, but feel it in the wheel also. Kind of just feels like it’s from everywhere, hard to explain. Could have hit a pothole but not sure. How do I go about figuring that out? As far as I can remember it was gradual as I don’t recall a certain point in time when...

I know driveline vibrations have been talked about a number of times on here, but through my searches I’m having a hard time finding a situation similar to mine. I see most occur at driving speeds, whereas mine is exclusively at very low speeds, under 10 mph being the worst. I notice it most in...

I don't have employment lined up currently. I have a buddy who worked out in Bristol Bay the past two years, and he's told me I can easily get a job and he knows a couple boats that could be good for me, so I have no doubt I'll land one. However, until it's actually secured all of my work to the...

Ok here it goes. My goal for this Summer - drive my 97 LX450 out from NC to Alaska, work on a salmon boat for two months, drive the LX back to NC. This is going to be my attempt at a real build thread outlining everything I do to get my cruiser ready for a ~9000 mile trip. About the cruiser...

Thanks! I like it too. Funny enough it's actually built partly out of old street signs the PO had collected from rental homes when college guys would move out of their places. I also just read the whole thread of your truck. That thing is sweet! One of the coolest builds I've seen

A couple recent additions/fixes to the truck 1. Started seeing a very inconsistent coolant leak on the side of the engine block. Was worried it was coming right out of the block, but was able to find out that the pipe under the exhaust manifold actually had busted, aka much better than a leak...

Thank you! It definitely is unique and I certainly think it’s pretty cool as well.

Have been scouring Facebook marketplace for months and months and the 80s/90s pickups always caught my eye. I have a 97 LX but I’ve always wanted something smaller and more barebones, and the idea of a 4x4 22re with the 5 speed always got me excited. I finally had some cash saved up and started...

Looked around for loose terminals and couldn’t see anything. My truck actually doesn’t have the fusible link like it should. I’m not entirely sure why but the guy before me wired it up differently. I don’t understand electrical things very well so I’m not sure if it’s better or worse but it’s...

Was leaving my house just now, heading down the steep gravel road if that matters, and out of nowhere the battery light came on and I lost power steering and brakes. Went down the rest of the hill and now she won’t turn over. It’s trying and has battery but just won’t start. Any idea what could...