Hi Doug, Sorry. Just woke up and saw this. I went to bed early last night. I'll try and give you a call in a bit once it's a more reasonable hour on your end.
Ive seen them where to much grease was in the knuckle and as it warmed up it pushed up the spindle, through the wheel bearings, and out the inner hub seal on to the rotor.
You still have the front locker if your rear fails in this wiring configuration. The ecu isn't involved. It's just a 2 stage switch. First stage powers the rear locker, second stage powers both.
I'm actually a don't grease the driveshaft slip joint more than a pump or so person. I've seen over greasing them kill t-case bearings. We've had trucks come in, that when you removed the zerk fitting the truck lowered down. There was enough grease pressurizing the slip joint to raise the...
We've never kept them in stock. They've always been built to order. The shop's too small to keep any kind of meaningful inventory around. I'm keeping all the fixtures in storage so that we can hopefully start again in the future. There's just no feasible way to built them without tripling...
The exhaust bends we use have a bit more than tripled in price. That and they've gone from a few days to get to over a month on the stuff we were able to get. For now at least it just isn't sustainable to keep making them. The smaller tubing for the filler necks is still available but also...
We don't build one's for the early 80's. There's not enough demand to justify building the fixtures. I'd just call around your area and see who builds custom exhaust hot rods. There are a few shops near us that do it. Check reviews as some are better than others. We had one truck come in...
Just an update on our tool. The one's that we've been making for the last few months are 1/2" thick now. Stripping the 3/8" ones was rare, I haven't heard about anyone stripping the1/2" ones. We've been using the same 3/8" one at the shop weekly for about two years.
Yeah, I totally cut all of the 1/2" hose sections in the last batch too short. Realized it when I went to install mine before Fall Crawl. Sorry about that😭
I hadn't really thought about adding extra patterns. We've got the commercially available 4.7 and 3.0 crank tools so I always just grab those. I'll see what I can do the next time I have to order blanks.
I'm close to having the filler replacements ready to go. The tubing portion is all set, just working on the bracket angles. I'm doing just the horizontal portion that rusts, keeping the vertical part stock and splicing them like the dual tank filler does. Should make removal easier.
It uses the stock Toyota isolator cushions and stock frame mounts so it should move the same as the factory setup. The rear most mount on RFB's is in a different spot since his rear bumper covers the rear most stock mount.
We replaced both gaskets. You've never reached out to me that I've seen other than bitching on the internet. I haven't received a phone call or email from you. I'm done with dealing with you. We went out of our way to fit you in several times as you rolled through for other repairs. No...
The tubing is 14 gauge 304 back purged and welded with 308. I'd have to call and see what the mufflers are made of since we don't make them in house. We've got quite a few exhausts out there and RFB's is the only one I've heard of having issues. The gasket complaints he has are with the...