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Well, I sure am glad for the dumpster fire of 2020 to be over. Here’s to a fresh new start in 2021.
Build An HJ61 followed me home to Texas
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those things are awesome. On my list to get
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Pump had a leak; got it rebuilt, back in action.
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I have used them a fair amount, nothing really beats cleaning up an old dirty and greasy-oily Cruiser.
Only real issue is where does the funk washed off go? I can’t do it here at my shop, no way. EPA is watching this property and honestly I don’t feel good about it going on the ground. Creek right by my shop that goes in the river, same for storm drains. But man oh man, really they are the bomb for cleaning up the old mess Cruisers have all over them.
Cheers
Only real issue is where does the funk washed off go? I can’t do it here at my shop, no way. EPA is watching this property and honestly I don’t feel good about it going on the ground. Creek right by my shop that goes in the river, same for storm drains. But man oh man, really they are the bomb for cleaning up the old mess Cruisers have all over them.
Cheers
She turned out really nice! Great you can enjoy it again!
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Today was a good day. Pics like these give me something to reflect back on and to be thankful for when life is crappy/stressful/pandemic-focused.
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I love this truck, and so does Nate.
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Me too, Dave, me too.
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Mine is originally from Valledolid, Spain. Someone there took decent care of the old girl. I bought it off of a guy in North Carolina through MUD classifieds about 4 years ago.
I think the one in the picture also came from Spain
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21.78 miles out of the last tank of fuel. Not too shabby. The motor seems to be breaking in nicely and it’s really smooth once it warms up.
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Things were going swimmingly in the 61 until I noticed it was getting progressively harder to shift gears. The clutch pedal return spring has always been very loose, and the clutch pedal hasalways sat about 2 inches closer to the floor in the corresponding break and throttle pedals. It was always on my list of things to adjust, but I’ve never presented a problem until now.
Last week, I depressed the clutch, d tried to shift out of first into reverse to back out of the driveway…and it wouldn’t go into gear. I double clutched a couple times, move the floormat away, and eventually got it into gear. I change plans and headed for the ranch, as I didn’t have any tools in town. It got progressively harder and harder to shift gears on the 20 mile drive, and I realize that I was essentially shifting clutchless, rev matching my RPMs to get it to slide into the appropriate higher or lower gear. I was able to avoid stoplights for most of the way out there. About a mile from the ranch I had an unavoidable stoplight in traffic and got stuck twice. I eventually got it into first after a large amount of cursing, and limped to the ranch.
I figured it was either the clutch master or slave. Luckily, I had two spare slaves and one spare master in my disorganized horde of parts. I sometimes surprise myself with all the crap I have just laying around.
I dropped them both in and bled it a couple of times, including a gravity bleed.
After farting out a giant air bubble, it drives fine. Both the master and slave visually looked fine, and you could still see the white AISIN marking on both. The fluid that came out was absolutely horrendous smelling and had a huge ton of sediment. Cycling the master and slave by hand was definitely not smooth. Glad I had fresh ones to replace. The soft line to the slave appeared to be in fine condition so I did not replace it. I had new hardware so of course I replaced the bolts.
Part numbers attached for posterity as usual.
Last week, I depressed the clutch, d tried to shift out of first into reverse to back out of the driveway…and it wouldn’t go into gear. I double clutched a couple times, move the floormat away, and eventually got it into gear. I change plans and headed for the ranch, as I didn’t have any tools in town. It got progressively harder and harder to shift gears on the 20 mile drive, and I realize that I was essentially shifting clutchless, rev matching my RPMs to get it to slide into the appropriate higher or lower gear. I was able to avoid stoplights for most of the way out there. About a mile from the ranch I had an unavoidable stoplight in traffic and got stuck twice. I eventually got it into first after a large amount of cursing, and limped to the ranch.
I figured it was either the clutch master or slave. Luckily, I had two spare slaves and one spare master in my disorganized horde of parts. I sometimes surprise myself with all the crap I have just laying around.
I dropped them both in and bled it a couple of times, including a gravity bleed.
After farting out a giant air bubble, it drives fine. Both the master and slave visually looked fine, and you could still see the white AISIN marking on both. The fluid that came out was absolutely horrendous smelling and had a huge ton of sediment. Cycling the master and slave by hand was definitely not smooth. Glad I had fresh ones to replace. The soft line to the slave appeared to be in fine condition so I did not replace it. I had new hardware so of course I replaced the bolts.
Part numbers attached for posterity as usual.
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Moderately sized moderately cool truck parked next to gigantically sized gigantically cool truck.
