Recent content by mrldcty

Yes... that is what I was thinking. Wouldn't be hard to make one from scratch.

I'll be there starting the 14th or 15th through the 22nd. There will be a whole lot of other folks there as well. Look for "knapper camp" on google maps. Dry camping but lots of camp sites up and down the road.

I've been eyeballing these too... just need to make it swivel such that the load goes in the back.

Awesome Charlie! I'm part of the Puget Sound Knappers (www.pugetsoundknappers.com). Heading for Glass Buttes Oregon next week... join us, we'll teach you how to knap and where to find obsidian.

I wasn't clear, sorry about that... I'm talking about a single rock that weighs upwards of 400 lbs.

Hmm... not sure how that would work with a hard top though.

Ohhh... I like that idea! I could use one or both ramps from the flatbed trailer that I use to haul the truck to the dig!

I'm a rock hound and would like to rig up something to lift heavy loads (up to 400 lbs) into the back of my 40. It seems like making something that mounts to the roll cage could work. Maybe on a track that extends out the back to pick up the load and then slide it in and drop it in the back...

OK, sure. It's a 1980 North America market with 60K original miles. I've been driving it with no electrical issues for 4 years now. The weird part to me is that the neg fuse clip is isolated from ground even though the hot wires of the tail lights are not.

I have similar behavior where my tail fuse keeps blowing. I went after it with a meter tonight. When I measure Amps across the fuse socket (key off), I get 24 amps, so something is pulling a load even though nothing is actually on. The weird part is that I get zero continuity between the...

I heated the cam gear back to the temp it was at when the puller was able to remove it (225 deg F). I then just slid it back into place on the cam shaft with a little tapping from a dead blow hammer to seat it all the way on so the clip would go back on. I made sure to align it with the marks...

We heated the cam gear with a propane torch to get it on and off. Getting it back on required some gentle persuasion with a dead blow hammer as well. Be sure to mark where where it goes in relation to the crank gear and be careful not to rotate the engine while it's off! Hope that helps! I...

Thanks for the input so far! The clunkyness I'm feeling is not rotational in nature IMO and is not speed dependent. If my steering damper wasn't brand new, I would suspect that... so that might be a clue that the issue is between the steering wheel and the damper. I also went through a very...

Yep, done all of that. Completely rebuilt the entire front end from diffs to knuckles to brakes to springs. I have shims in the front and back to correct my pinion angles after and EMU lift as well. What I'm feeling is not that type of vibration and the steering is not sloppy. It feels like...

I have read a couple of things that indicate there are one or two catastrophic steering failure modes related to the steering box and to the drag link (pitman arm) end. I'm chasing a little shock vibration coming through my steering wheel... can someone tell me what these failure modes are and...