Just some musings from an 80 owner curious about this system: It seems like there's an electric vacuum pump, a vacuum accumulator, and then that drives the brake master cylinder like a typical brake booster.
If your brakes are intermittently 'wooden', then you do not have an appropriate...
Hey there. I know one of the SDHQ electrical guys and I'm sure he'd be happy to do some side work to make it happen. I'm in Gilbert and happy to lend some guidance - always accepting donations of sugarfree red bull. I'm an electrical engineer & work in automotive. Built several full vehicle...
I never see people do this on mud, so I'll suggest it here. Why not get a set of brake pads made that are more aggressive? G-Loc will make just about anything. I even put race pads on our Dodge Dart at work.
I'm convinced, because I use special brake pads when I take my mustang on race tracks...
Definitely fits. Bellhousing bolts directly to A343F. Had to relieve the firewall a little bit & chop the air handler.
Expect a real build thread in about a year when I have something significant to show. Going to cook up some real weird stuff.
Wow, that sucks! I'm in Gilbert and have two cats off a Toyota Century that you're welcome to have, they just need to be welded in.
For the U-Haul fleet we started welding rebar cages over the cats in areas where they get stolen a lot.
Got this transmission in a trade for a transfer case. I don't have any use for it, so it's yours for $300. Does not include tcase.
Unknown mileage, but PO tells me that it was run in a crawler for some time and then pulled in favor of a Chevy powertrain and that it operates fine. Will throw in...
You won't really need a frame ground unless you get into radios. If you ever want to run a fancy HAM or CB setup, better grounding - particularly to the exhaust and frame rails - can help prevent ground loops and ground plane losses. In that situation, you would want to ground at several points...
I think the main advantage to having a 17" wheel in the U.S. is that Jeeps use them. So - lots of wheel and tire selections and possibly lower cost. You can also run larger brakes if you want to go that route.
With 315s, I can walk just about any typical overland obstacle at standard pressure...
I very much prefer sleeping in the back of the rig. A tent would have to go on the roof, and that adds a lot of weight I'd rather avoid. Plus, the cabin is better insulated, and there's no setup required. I have a rear slide-out toolbox that's the same height as the rear seats when folded down...
The TURN fuse is in the middle, third down (position #8) in the main fuse block to the bottom left of the steering wheel. GAUGE is just above that. The diagram doesn't show it, but the wires for the front and rear are spliced together after the turn signal stalk, so there's really two bulbs and...
Just in case anyone refers to this thread in the future.. I had a little spare time and made this. I think two fuses are mislabeled in the first diagram.