Recent content by Turnbro

Thank you, as soon as I rolled into town I washed the whole thing. Even under the hood and radiator area. The truck has a thin coat of oil underneath the previous owner had applied a couple of years ago. As far as I can tell he was honest with me about not using the truck in the winter. All...

Yessir, right now I can tell I have very little rear brakes. Either the hardware inside the drums is partially froze, way out of adjustment, or the prop valve is not functioning correctly. I haven't begun to troubleshoot it yet. Right now I'm working a lot. So i began with ordering simple...

Thanks man, yeah I slept on it a few days after talking with the owner. Decided "why not at least lool at it", so flew out and couldn't believe how clean it was. They're so hard to get in decent shape now, so I decided now or never basically. And Thanks again, I'll post some on it once I get...

Man I know, I can never let something be either. It will eat at me knowing i can do it correctly if* i try to just "make it work" like people ask. Last one was an ae86 dash harness repair. Completely butchered had to de loom the whole thing just to realize how bad it was. Took way too long...

Everything we have is m/t. Even the wife's daily. This is the odd ball haha. Also after diving cross country with the stock auto, all I can say about it is "It works". Felt like I needed another gear to make large hills/mountains easier. But It got me home and didn't miss a beat.

Yeah in my experience people often don't consider the implicit cost of high dollar specialty tools, buying in bulk to get a decent price on materials, spools of high quality wire, pins, terminals, connectors. Then shipping to you on all that stuff. I always lost track of everything and just ate...

Thank you, I'm certainly still in the research phase. There's a lot of good options it seems.

Lmao, man it blew my mind. That's why I flew out instead of opting for transport. He bought it off the original owner for a winter vehicle nearly 10 years ago iirc. Then decided it was too nice to use in the winter. So it sat in his barn except for family trips to the lake and such. It came...

Thank you, I appreciate it.

I understand that, I have built a few engine swap harnesses for people. And if I could have paid someone else to do it (and trust them) it'd would have been a no brainer. Wiring is definitely an under appreciated skill. I'd have no problem paying 350+ for a top shelf, tested product. Especially...

Good morning everyone, just picked up an 89 fj62. Way late to the party, but wanted one for a while. Started calling on trucks about 6 months ago, and finally found an original truck with good factory paint on Facebook. Only it was in NH, and I'm in South Texas. Called the owner, he seemed...