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Often on trucks with trans noise there's a missing pillow of foam stuffed between the trans and the body to arrest noise. It will be a lot more effective than anything that you'll pour in the transmission. You can make this yourself out of foam from an old mattres or chair. I don't think fj55s...

I can't really afford Mcintosh, initially it sort of fell into my lap because it didn't work and I had cash and ive sort of hunted it ever since, but at the end of the day I could never afford one that runs. Just like landcruisers. Nice ones that run are way out of the budget but I've got one...

Yesterday my landmate came home to me sitting in my chair staring at the wall catatonic, water pipe in hand... After 2 or 3 hours in the scott i decided to swap out the old board in my Mcintosh c8 for a new one id made. 5 hours later: this is your brain on drugs. Sizzle.... Seriously working...

Bias voltage was low due to the old solid state rectifier going high resistance. It went in the trash, replaced it with a new silicon unit and bias voltage is on the money at 50v. 4x 12.6v filament tubes with the filaments in serries should in fact make a 50.2v string in operation right. Its at...

I got some time again today to look at the amp. I had a great vacation, put ~1100 miles on the fj55. Came back to a farm load of chores and my land mate took his vacation (so I adopted all of his chores). Got everything under control. He returned yesterday with his 300k 1997 tacoma belching...

Honestly if you're going to put German parts in a Japanese vehicle go with the om617 Mercedes Benz turbo diesel. Its entirely mechanical and a bit heavier duty than the vw which requires a module to run it...

We also made it on to social media. One of our HipCamp hosts posted this on Instagram.

Home safely. Had a great time. Ive got some looseness in the front end to check out but nothing serious. A rough adding up of miles and routes indicates we traveled 1083 miles over 5 days in a 53 year old vehicle that's essentially original. (Broken things have been fixed but not swapped out)...

Next time friend, next time...

Wow, what a trip. We made it up the coast through Florence and over to Portland. In Portland we did a sensory deprivation float in a tub with 1400 pounds of Epsom salt. Then we went to a 7 course tasting of wild forraged food and home fermented drink. Followed up by a late night in the hookah...

As a matter of fact the s cam air drum brakes in a big rig haven't changed design in 70 years. Maybe longer than that. No exotic materials only steel and pig iron.

I think you should teach the kids how to rebuild what's there. Brakes especially because in order to get functional drum brakes in a Toyota landcruiser you need to pick up a book and read. They aren't conventional and therefore are a great teaching opportunity. Also, they work great. There's...

Also carbon content and rust. In my experience, higher carbon/harder steel is more prone to rust and our fj55s are certainly no exception.

Solven is probably something like naptha Aka zippo lighter fluid. Adding a few drops may revitalize the can.

well we made it to Oregon. I had one incident on the way over, Mt lock washer failed on my driver side hub bearing and it began to loosen. Noticed a brake squeak while turning right. Pulled over, pulled off the hub, reset the nut and modified the washer to hold. We were off and running in 20...