At the least, you're not going to left sitting on the side of the road. Get some of the CLEAR plastic filters, so you can check easy and replace when needed.
First things first.....
77 FJ55 Montana to Florida
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At the least, you're not going to left sitting on the side of the road. Get some of the CLEAR plastic filters, so you can check easy and replace when needed.
Answer with a question: What's in the tank?
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Got into the EOL PO installed non-functional manual tailgate glass crank today.. Interesting..
basically the motor had been removed. the housing for the star gear was intact and in good condition, as were the regulators for the tailgate glass.. Found the tailgate glass clips, got it out of the way, and removed the regulator. Once the regulator was out I snapped some pics of the 3/8 socket that is attached to the drive for the regulator star gear.. Placed that on a bench, and returned to the truck and pic'd the 3/8 drive (this is what was EOL badly worn down) that had been welded to the threaded bolt, extended into the tailgate, and welded to the broken off handle...
I decided for now that I'm keeping the 3/8 drive ... to make it work, I cut the bolt in half that was the crank 'shaft' for the 3/8 drive.. once I got that out, I drilled the hole out a bit that the 'shaft' had thru into the guts of the tailgate.. Got the regulators reinstalled, installed another tailgate handle I had, and inserted a 3/8 drive I had in the hole of the tailgate and into the 3/8 socket still attached to the star gear for the regulators..
WORKS!! Rolls up and down with no issues... when not in use, just remove the 3/8 ratchet and shaft, and install the grommet as a plug...
The remaining issue is the window regulators are spring driven to go down easily... the old mechanism had use a threaded bolt with nuts on the inside and outside of the tailgate, and large washers snugged up against the shell of the tailgate to prohibit the tailgate glass from just going down over rough terrain or extended drives... Gott figure that out... but I like I can operate the tailgate again.. for now... Hopefully the pics tell the story better then me..
So I did some errands on Wednesday in my pig and rolled that freaking awesome window up and down from outside and inside at least 10 times. It's 5x faster than my '85 4Runner rear window. I applaud your ability to get the window up and down - stellar work - but I hope "for now" is your ultimate intent.
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the tank was drained over a 5 gal bucket .. I had a shop cloth draped over the bucket to catch any debris to evaluate condition..
cloth was clean... gas was in there ... old... right now the tank is empty... flushed with a gallon + today, going to flush w another gallon tomorrow with the fuel line filter off.... .. then install a new filter... fresh gas... crank her up...
So I did some errands on Wednesday in my pig and rolled that freaking awesome window up and down from outside and inside at least 10 times. It's 5x faster than my '85 4Runner rear window. I applaud your ability to get the window up and down - stellar work - but I hope "for now" is your ultimate intent.
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So I did some errands on Wednesday in my pig and rolled that freaking awesome window up and down from outside and inside at least 10 times. It's 5x faster than my '85 4Runner rear window. I applaud your ability to get the window up and down - stellar work - but I hope "for now" is your ultimate intent.
Sound good. A surefire way to insure there is no water in the tank is to run some alcohol through it. HEET is basically alcohol so that works. Gasoline and alcohol mixes but gasoline and water doesn't. Alcohol (yes, as in ethanol) does mix with water and gasoline and is great at removing water. Ethanol unfortunately will only pick up a small percentage of water in the presence of gasoline before it falls out of solution; thus the issue with ethanol. Great if you use it from day one; terrible if you put it into an old water laden tank. Put a bunch of rubbing alcohol in the tank and then drain it all out. It will remove the water and maybe some of the rust. Just a suggestion.
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I have a motor and another regulator enroute... I'm going to eventtually go back electric I think ....So I did some errands on Wednesday in my pig and rolled that freaking awesome window up and down from outside and inside at least 10 times. It's 5x faster than my '85 4Runner rear window. I applaud your ability to get the window up and down - stellar work - but I hope "for now" is your ultimate intent.
Again, great mechanical engineering but are you seriously going to carry around a socket, ratchet, and a grommet in your pocket?
Sanity....
Just messing with you. I know when my window wouldn't roll down I would have drilled through any part of the tailgate to make it work.
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Thanks Aa
Grins on the pocket socket, and good advice on HEET.Sanity....
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I like the uniqueness of it a lot, and it's part of the truck's story... but I have to be able to keep the glass up... It stays up just fine when it's still... but I'm certain with any kind of driving it's going to drop, hard....
Fixed it for you...
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Grins..
In comment #85 you can see the old worn 3/8 drive that was welded to the bolt w/nuts and originally had a handle welded on the bolt... Pretty neat...
but ...
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I've got no idea why or how, because it honestly could have been done 20+ years ago when parts may have been obtainable.... who knows...
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oh yeah, and got a release handle on it now purchased from Pigeaten about a year ago....It'll take some time, but progress...
Apologies...on a roll.
In the middle of a Montana winter, you'd do damn near anything to close up that rear window. And it wouldn't have been beer...probably shots of something stronger.
"Hold my Old Crow and watch this..."