Recent content by Jedijunk

Old cars from the USA are routinely shipped over here. Sometimes they are cut into two pieces to avoid the high import taxes on whole cars. Then the chop shops here reassemble them and sell them. It's quite funny to see Cambodians driving around in cars that still have American bumper stickers...

Vehicles never make it out of Cambodia so you're safe unless you move here ha ha. When I get time I'll post a "my rig" thread. Where's the proper place for those in the forums?

Yep, I replaced the transfer case. As far as the old transmission, now that it's been opened up by a mechanic that doesn't work on transmissions and poked around inside before he closed it back up, I'm not sure I would trust it until it had been worked over. He also pointed to damaged bolt heads...

RESOLUTION UPDATE AND A FOLLOW-UP QUESTION: Well, never underestimate the unhinged ingenuity of bush mechanics. Front diff checked out. Rear diff checked out. We opened up the transfer case, and WHAT THE?!?!? Someone either welded, or torched, or SOMETHING, the outer teeth on this gear. I don't...

Things like this are very possible here, it's a "find a creative hack to keep it going without proper parts" kind of a place. Which I both admire and at times hate. Right now with the past work done on this truck it's more on the hate side ha ha. But eventually I expect that I'll get through to...

Ok this is SUPER helpful. Thank you for taking the time to explain this! My LX450 only has the center diff locker that automatically locks when Low range is selected. There is no separate switch to choose when to lock/unlock the center diff. No front or rear locker installed as far as I know. I...

I'd like to understand this possibility of a cooked/locked VC better. If mine isn't cooked/locked, it probably SHOULD be after what I did to it. My first off-road outing with my new LX450 (after having the drivetrain inspected and doing a few minor repairs like having the front hyme joints...

Ironically, that last comment was apparently enough to unlock editing. Sorry for the pointless post!

Thanks! But typos and missing info in my own posts make my skin crawl. I'll probably have to go back through all of my early posts once I am allowed to edit ha ha! Meantime I guess I'll just have to check more carefully before I post, and post a lot. If those are the rules, that's how I'll play...

Not sure if I'm just old and dense, but I can't see an edit link/button on my posts/comments to correct a spelling error or add info I forgot. Is that because I'm new here and have a low post count, or is that not possible in the ih8mud forums? I searched but don't see anyone else asking about that.

Unrelated aside, but I had them pull the AC evaporator to check it for leaks and clean it today. I've never seen one so dirty - there was a quarter inch of mud-dust built up on the dirty/intake side! Obviously the previous owner never had it cleaned - it was DISGUSTING (pic attached). After...

Well, following the advice of @flintknapper , I tested and confirmed that the car rolls in park in High range, but not when the center diff is locked in low range. So I had high hopes it was just a stripped drive flange. So we put the beast on a lift at the mechanic's shop today. But when I...

I think you might be right! Searching this forum for "front drive flange" I came across this thread that describes my issue pretty exactly : Fj80 drive flange questions - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/fj80-drive-flange-questions.1005735/. If it is just the drive flanges I'm gonna be ticked at...

Not just steep hills - even slight hills like sloping paved driveways. There's no sound or feel of slipping teeth. It's like it's in neutral, but possibly (?) slightly more drag. Drive works fine and so does Reverse. When I park, I feel it click into Park after Reverse, the Park indicator...

Yes, both driveshafts are there. 🙂 The transmission I pulled was the (original, I think?) Aisin 30-43LE model. I changed all fluids when I bought the car but it has 243xxx on the odo and the transmission fluid was quite dirty when I got it so I wasn't surprised when it started slipping out in...