Recent content by inkpot

I inspected all my old headbolts and re used them all. I did a H G job due to a burned valve. Over 100,000 miles ago. I am running thr TRD supercharger at 8.5 lbs of boost, no problems .

The injector signal triggers by grounding at the ECU, not by the positive wire , so ground signal is intermittent.

That means you have no power to the computer. That comes from a wire that comes out of the main battery harness and runs up under the power steering resevouir, then recounts the injector harness. It uses a 3 pin plug right below that resevouir. That socket/plug died for me. You can jumper...

Is that missing the angled supports from bumper to frame? It would be riveted into the outboard hole?

Sounds about right. When I still had my Slee bumper I found out that 2 of the 4 weld nuts were GONE, and the other 2 were not real happy. Strange, as crossmember had no rust, and the rest of the rig is pretty much rust free. It was a PIA, but i could reach thru a porthole in the crossmember...

I used a bolt on pintle ring at first, but I was not comfortable towing heavy loads offroad. So I tossed the Slee bumper and opted for a Luke's 4x4 for much better clearance. It has a 2" receiver tube built in that is pretty stout. But I added a long piece of steel on top of thr tube and...

I have made a small spacer to fit inside my pintle hitch so it doesn't KLUNK so bad when changing back and forth between towing and braking.

My 97 is boosted on 37s with 4.88s. 268xxx on the clock. Bought it with 92000 on it so nearly 200,000 miles for me. I drive it fairly hard everyday. I tow heavy loads offroad often. I shift manually 90% of the time. A343f still works flawlessly. There is a transmission shop next to me...

Buy a better muffler?

If the foam insulation across the front of the top tank is gone you should be able to slip cardboard in there pretty easy. Might want something more waterproof. When I lived in Cheyenne I used aluminum printing press plates. I was the pressroom foreman for the Wyoming Eagle.

3 degrees is 3 degrees, regardless of moving a tooth.

Might do a compression test. Cheap and easy. You may have marginal compression in 1 cylinder.

IF the heads had been off before, maybe someone thought it wise to leave out the washers in order to engage some new, unused thread, although it would be only a couple of turns?

Mine was mounted with sheet metal screws.

Could be a cat or muffler behind the Y pipe. Check coolant level and belt tension? Check for rats nest in front of radiator?