Recent content by Freeborn

I genuinely wish it was bushings. To add another piece to the puzzle: When I back out of the driveway, I can avoid the clunk when I shift into drive by pausing a moment in neutral and turning the wheel in one direction before shifting into drive. When I do that it's smooth. To me this...

Giving this a bump to see if anyone has any thoughts...

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Right... The flanges are also new. So are the bushings. The play is pronounced on the driver side at the tripod end of the CV. Like the CV doesn't move at all on the driver side for a while when turning the drive shaft and is distinctly different from the passenger side. It's way beyond what...

I wish. After getting everything back together and still experiencing the same issue (to a slightly lesser degree) I figured out that cylinder 3 has a decent amount of blow-by. The thing runs good enough for the summer, but it looks like I'll be tearing it down again this winter to see if I can...

Hey, team. I have a '02 with the "clunk" that happens shifting from reverse into drive (and often when downshifting to climb). I've isolated the problem to a bunch of play in the driver side of the front diff. Like if I'm under the truck, I can put my hands on the front drive shaft and the...

I grabbed this one on Amazon. In my case, a previous owner had added a universal aftermarket antenna that was broken off, so I had to grab the various trim pieces: Nut Black plastic piece that sits on the fender I also needed to swap out the end of the antenna wire to match the male end that...

...the motor assembly. If there's one out there, I'll take it off your hands. However, I ended up using various adhesives to make my current situation work. We'll see how it does on the first visit to a car wash.

Hey, friends. Does anyone out there have a busted motorized antenna they want to get rid of? Why do I want a broken one? Well, I bought all of the bits to convert to a mast antenna, but it turns out they depend on the old antenna being there for installation, and mine was removed long before I...

Closing the loop here...It seems like what I have will continue to do the trick. I just measured the height of the block + head gasket. It comes in right at 97mm. I threaded all the head bolts back into the block without the head as far as they could go and measured the distance from the deck to...

It was a Felpro gasket. Ordered the Toyota for this round.

I'm exercising demons from my '78 2f with low compression in one cylinder. When I was pulling off the head, I noticed a couple of things: 1. It took very little effort to break the head bolts loose. Like shockingly little torque. And I know that they were torqued to spec on installation. 2. I...

I want to say the torque spec is something like 35-40 ft-lb...don't quote me on it, but it's not nearly as much as you might expect. There are PDF manuals available here on mud that will have the exact spec. The pattern just works from the inside out starting with the two studs at the top/center...

Also, FWIW, I spent a chunk of change on new springs and rings and the manifold was no better sealed. Since I'm running TBI I need no leaks, so I ended up grabbing some headers. The headers are great now that I have the installation settled, but it required a little bit of futzing. I also went...

One spring per ring. Spring goes under the ring.