Recent content by TLC4K2

Thanks for the replies. The question sort of answered itself when I was pulling out the old carpet and discovered that someone's dog had peed on it, probably more than once, probably more than a decade ago. <sigh> So yea, I'll be replacing it. Also I noticed that it was definitely starting...

Greetings all. We're far enough along with repairs and upgrades to our '83 FJ60, that now the fate of the carpeting is being considered. On the one hand, we know we need to do some rust mitigation, so I need to take out all the carpeting anyway to get that metal exposed. Afterwards, I've been...

Thank you both! I'm starting grad school in two weeks, so my window of opportunity may have come and gone. I limped through last winter with good heat to the cab but only warmish heat on the windshield. I may push it to my next term break, but now at least I know more about what to expect...

I'm actually in the same boat as @puffah. I was planning all year to remove, clean out and adjust my heater core and related controls this month, since at least one vent seems blocked and several of the sliders have minimal slide range. I even had a guy come out to drain off the Freon for me...

I ended up replacing that hard elbow tube that comes out of the gearbox and sends power steering fluid out to the rest of the system. I never did see any holes, nicks or wear in the tube I took out, but putting in a new one several months ago has sealed things up nicely. HTH.........

OK, new issue. I've been checking the so-called fast-idle solenoid because of random stalls at idle, well after the engine is up to normal operating temps. While I'm not done testing those solenoid connections, I've run across what might be a contributing issue. I have a desmogged engine...

Finally got to a good place with this. What started as a stiff shifting problem in cold weather, had morphed into too much oil in the tranny, low oil in the transfer case, and I can't get the darn fill plugs off. Two months later, and I've resolved all three. I finally got those fill plugs...

Finally resolved this, at least in terms of the weak starting. It was the battery! Just shy of 3 years old, and it was showing a full charge, but it just didn't have the cranking amps anymore. We took it back to the Napa where we bought it, and they still had the purchase record. Swapped us...

Thanks all for the suggestions. I'm 90% of the way to just cutting that old negative cable and bringing in a new cable to a new ground location, but I wanted to eliminate some other possibilities first. So we spent some quality time yesterday and today testing various things, and found a few...

I'm sure most parents can tell you that it doesn't take much to embarrass your kids. Just being 20+ years older is usually enough!

Nice detective work! Glad it's starting for you now!

Thank you for this nifty technique! I actually got the fill plugs off last weekend, but I'll keep this in mind for the next stubborn bolt. I'm sure there will be a few.......

Fresh off the problem of removing/replacing my tranny and T/C fill bolts, now my latest headache is trying to remove my neg battery grounding bolt. I'm not talking about the smaller bolt very conveniently located on the passenger side wall. I'm referring to the longer battery cable that snakes...

So many cool projects in the works, or freshly completed! We've got nicer weather here now so I've been crawling under the rig a lot lately, working on the tranny and TC fill plugs which were both stuck. Finally got the TC plug loose, with a goofy little trick. We don't have a welder or torch...

Thanks again. My next question was whether this was too big/complex a job this might be. I suppose everything is relative. I knew a lot of folks here had to have done this job in the past, so the suggestion to go back and read all their suggestions is awesome. No sense reinventing the wheel...