Recent content by kenavt

I did the 80-series Rodney flush on my truck yesterday, and am pretty happy with the results! The truck does shift noticeably better and quieter now. I did end up using 20L of fluid in the flush (which hurt the ole wallet) but that probably wasn't necessary; I think after ~16L the fluid was a...

Does anyone know what the ID of these hoses are? They're all NLA and I'm away from my truck for a few days, but want to get ahead on ordering parts.

Looks like I can send you a DM! Sent you one.

Gotcha. That's not what I'm going for on this car at all. What are you running for H3 fogs nowadays?

Bringing this thread back up... @CruiserTrash did you give these a shot? How did they look? Thinking about these for my old BMW.

I also addressed this a few months ago. I felt very confident it was the wiper motors not hitting their limit switches. But I didn’t have the time to try and learn how to take apart and rebuild the wiper motor to fix the limit switches, in the Seattle winter rainy season. I lucked out and SOR...

I spent the past week finishing my lift from last year, finally installing my Dobinsons caster arm bushings. It was quite the chore, but glad I'm did it. I followed the Slee instructions for OME bushings, which mostly worked. Pulling the arms out required some patience with my impact and then...

Related, since I just set up to pull out my caster arms. I’m going to install a Dobinsons caster correction bushing kit with up to 2.5deg caster (RB59-522K). The OME kit and Slee instructions mention making a vertical mark on the arm before pulling it out but the Dobinsons kit doesn’t, it just...

Co-sign for Hansons (although they’ve moved to Arlington I think). They fixed a rust patch on my 80 and did a fantastic job at a reasonable labor price. They work on a lot of LCs. I had trouble getting any shop to take on the work.

FYI to anyone looking... to the right person (like me three weeks ago) these are worth a lot more!! Unfortunately for the seller I don't need one anymore.

Planning on getting some bumpers for my other car (an 80s BMW) in Chula Vista between next week and late Feb, up to me in Seattle. Would also be willing to meet anywhere in western WA down to Portland.

More recently, I had to tackle a rust spot in my rear right wheel well. I was a aware of it before I won the Japanese dealer auction for Yoshi, but had turned a blind eye once I had a chance to look over Yoshi myself since he has so little rust elsewhere on the body. However, this one spot got...

Coming up on the end of the year, until recently not a lot had been going on with Yoshi mechanically besides putting on some miles!! The biggest thing was a roadtrip over Labor Day week down to Humboldt in California to wheel and camp with @jonnyd42 and his gorgeous FJ62 named Kelly, then...

I learned the hard way that the double box end wrenches with funny bends are called offset wrenches. There’s one bolt in the back by the rear body mount that I couldn’t reach with anything else. But Harbor Freight had my back...

In lieu of measurements (since I forgot to do before measurements), here is a before-and-after picture of the Dobinsons lift.