Recent content by Kschep

Ya ... can always address it better later ... all about the here and now for me after putting in about 3 yrs just to make reliable driven cruiser so I've been attacking my comfort needs now and once it becomes time make her a shiny new street queen it'll be time, but for now I'd rather the...

Might just take it to a body shop and see what they think they could do .. maybe they can heat it up or do something I can't or have some type of way I can't do by self ... main reason needed to straighten is bec I'm fitting these custom speaker holders down there and they use that as one of...

great suggestions, thank you ... I was planning to put something inbetween for sure, and also no doubt I won't be able to make it "perfect" I'm just looking to get it "mostly" back straight. It's in an inner no one can see place, so as long as it's pretty damn straight with a couple marks...

This baby looks like it'll grab with some serious leverage ... ah yes it will (I havnt tried yet, just posted the pic)

When you say careful cuts do you mean small ones? Like 1/4 inch cut or smaller (or larger)? Bec as I reach my fingers behind the back I realize there's a thick thing with bolts behind that exact spot (most likely how they attach and reinforce the door hinge connector that hangs out to reconnect...

Ok, well ugh to that - I'm not ready to make any cuts on that metal .. I'll just take off the nearest clutch pedal and prolly brake pedal too and figure out some other mcguyver move ... prolly something with some long flat nose vice grips and leverage or some bang bang banging - lol 😝 ... nah...

I accidentally left my FJ in neutral with my drivers side door open and it rolled backward and the door caught on the garage and ripped it backward a bit and bent the metal where the door connects ... doh 😖 🙄 Anyways anyone have an idea how I should bend that metal back straight a bit? ... I...

Does anyone have an issue with how this mechanic installed my aftermarket steering damper? I feel like it's too close/directly above my spring leafs...I had previously installed it, before taking it into him, but for whatever reason he decided to move it to that position. Any thoughts or is that...

I've torn out all flooring cover (mats, carpeting, etc. From PO) - to address any beginnings of rust or drilled holes PO did that are beginning to rust. All preparing for a paint job and a line-x job on the interior floors. Plan to recover with some good Mat's or carpeting once it's all prepared...

Here's some pics of interior, after returning/painting all the silver parts ... added a new sleek tach (that I'm in the middle of figuring out too). But then the major interior upgrade - new front seats with a matching back bench seat. Trying to find a reupholster person to use the yard of...

Yes, right water/coolant temp .. that was my understanding as well. I just for some reason had my mind on oil things at the time of typing a lot of these messages. My mistake. So ya keep and eye on that and see as it middles out (as the car is driven for more extending drive times) instead of...

Excuse me I think I had been meaning to type that the entire time but for some reason my mind just was on the oil - lol - oil change / oil pressure ... etc. So yes these are the guages I'm referring to Furthest left "oil" and middle right "Temp" Is that not oil temp, it's water temp? I think I...

Okay! Awesome thought! Thank you for that - I was under the impression it being so high above the middle mark was something that meant there was an issue I needed to address - especially bec I had always noticed it at the halfway mark in the past (before some changes but none to the oil so my...

I'm speaking to the 2 different guages on the stock dash - oil temp and then oil pressure - I'm speaking to my oil pressure guage going up to the 3/4 mark upon car just barely warming - and since everyone has let me know that that should hopefully come down at my oil temp rises to the complete...

Yes well after all these changes - I've been able to drive it enough to know that all the fixes worked (meaning all components work now). Yes I should drive it a bit more after the oil change. So will see if that gets the oil pressure baseline to drop to half (which is what I think the healthy...