As I began troubleshooting my slopping steering I found a pretty likely culprit pretty quickly.
The ball joints seem to twist pretty easily and simply twist the tie rod, as shown in the video (I hope is at least linked, maybe embedded?) showing the play in the ball joints while my son is...
Sears has a little life left in them, use your own best judgement on the value of any warrantee (Sears might be gone soon).
https://www.sears.com/tools/b-1020000?subCatView=true&tagLabel=Overstock&adcell=Tools_Overstock_Deals
The cabinets are pretty nice. Compared to Husky from Home Depot they...
I've watched several videos and read a few instructions so far...
And from what I understand, to replace the pinion seal I have to remove the carrier and pound the pinion out.
To replace, I need a new crush sleeve and pinion nut, and have a torque wrench that I can measure the bearing drag on...
So, I began trying to rebuild a spare carb.
I've had issues with the engine since I've had it, and replaced the original carb with a new amazon cheapo which has been, stable in it's poor performance... Where I previously had different issues every day, all of my problems now are reliable...
I've noticed puddles or brownish / orange'ish water in my garage under the FJ40 for a couple weeks and decided to figure out exactly what was leaking and get it fixed. I knew it was coming from the top of the engine and having previously had the upper radiator hose split on me I was wondering if...
My heater stopped working yesterday.
Starter too (really the ignition switch), but that decided to start working again after pulling the plastic shields off the steering column.
No power to the starter, but jumping it the fan turns on, so I pulled the switch out.
46 years of dirt on it...
My FJ40's paint is looking a little old and faded. But it's been that way since I bought her. And I never really liked the red much to begin with.
A previous owner painted the inside all black. And the undercarriage. And did a pretty poor job of it. Some of the paint in the back is flaking...
After years of not working on my "project", but really wanting to have an FJ40 to drive around, I finally decided to go buy one that runs.
It ran before I bought it, took it for a test drive. It didn't run well, but it ran. Not much power, but it would idle. The choke worked, pulling the choke...