I’ll give that a try tomorrow. Thanks.
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Got to make clearance Clarence.Changing fluids in the 80 today and saw that I crushed the ring surround on the front differential drain plug. Got everything done except the front diff fluid. Does anyone have any tips on getting this plug out since the rock I hit deformed the protection ring into the drain plug?
I tried banging on the inside of the crushed side with a brass tap and hammer, tried prying with a screwdriver, tried to take the 24mm socket and bang it onto the plug. All to no avail.
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Those are the longer magnetic type.Marlin or Toyota? The Marlin drain plugs appear to be extra long but I guess no issues on the 80 diffs, trans, and TC?
Updates on my LS serpentine belt issue. Warrantied the serpentine belt with a small battle at Advance Auto - “That’s not a belt defect that’s a bad pulley” to which I insisted was incorrect and eventually they gave in.
Anyways I then replaced the bad tensioner pulley with my spare haha.
But as soon as I cranked it up I noticed the belt walking forward on the crank. I reset it and it did it again. Does it immediately after it runs. Walks forward so one rib of the belt is off the balancer. Then it doesn’t throw. Just sits there until the edge of the balancer wears through the crank. If the balancer was bent I’d think it would throw it and not just wear it like that. It also appears perfectly straight when running. It’s like something else is out of alignment.
I made these discoveries last week, I'm at the beach now, i’m going to investigate further next week.
On the bright side since my 40 is down I’ve just been driving my dads a
I haven’t been able to check but it’s the balancer that came on the engine from the junkyard so I’d imagine it’s good.Is the balancer fully seated on the crank or from a different model engine?
Maybe alignment issue with an accessory pulley
Damn that looks clean!Max the 55 is getting closer
That pulley should be flush on the end of that shaft.I believe the power steering pulley hypothesis is Correct. The pulley does appear to be forward on the shaft to me. I need to look at another to compare. Hard to tell in the picture but the front edge of the pulley is a good 1/4” off the front off the shaft - you can see it in the picture if you look closely.
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That’s what I thought, was gonna look at myThat pulley should be flush on the end of that shaft.