i am getting my SST tool back tomorrow so give me shout and you can borrow it..
good old trunion bearings....
good old trunion bearings....
anyone got a ps box for a 60?
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might be worth a quick double check tha the two big nuts that hold the wheel bearing in are good... mine were loose and gave me a bit of that feeling... also double check that your steering arm nuts are tight (the ones with the cone washers) mine had loosened off once and made it wobble a bit.... it'd suck to lose one...
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Steven, yes, I checked both items first. it was that the wobble was visible at the knuckle that made me sure it is trunnion. i rocked the wheel top to bottom and could feel the knuckle moving and see it too.
Just like if you were driving a stock BJ60...
That's enough Ryan.
fair enough.... nice to hear removing the ram has made it at least a little bit more highway friendly
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So, just to follow up and admit my foolishness...
after 1500 km of driving with what proved to be just as bad a deathwobble as before I did the trunion bearing I had a close look at my wheels.
yup. no wheel weights left on left front. hmmph. 6.5 ounces later my wobble returned to respectable minimums. serves me right for not closely inspecting those wheels when problems manifested!
other things worth noting on my trip:
Just west of Jasper I lost high beams, so enjoyed the curves in the dark with one hand on the wheel wobbling like mad and the other holding the stalk of the lightswitch back to give me high beams. but no moose, or meese, materialized.
the engine ran like crap from Jasper to Edmonton to Calgary, and it wasn't until I got back into BC that it calmed down. symptoms were masses of whitish smoke at 1500-2900 RPM, surging, coughing, missing. changed fuel filters and a bunch of fuel lines to and from the IP and ran a bunch of lubricity / injector cleaner additive through. still scratching my head. runs fine back down here. kind of wonder if the IP isn't spot on, as Cam and I put it back on it's old marks when we had it off to replace some o-rings.
pulled over east of fernie and met a guy named Gord parting a 60, selling a 45 3b, another 45, a 40, and he had two 75 frames painted up and ready to rebuild. anyone looking for bits from those trucks, I have his coordinates.
after 1500 km of driving with what proved to be just as bad a deathwobble as before I did the trunion bearing I had a close look at my wheels.
yup. no wheel weights left on left front. hmmph. 6.5 ounces later my wobble returned to respectable minimums. serves me right for not closely inspecting those wheels when problems manifested!
other things worth noting on my trip:
Just west of Jasper I lost high beams, so enjoyed the curves in the dark with one hand on the wheel wobbling like mad and the other holding the stalk of the lightswitch back to give me high beams. but no moose, or meese, materialized.
the engine ran like crap from Jasper to Edmonton to Calgary, and it wasn't until I got back into BC that it calmed down. symptoms were masses of whitish smoke at 1500-2900 RPM, surging, coughing, missing. changed fuel filters and a bunch of fuel lines to and from the IP and ran a bunch of lubricity / injector cleaner additive through. still scratching my head. runs fine back down here. kind of wonder if the IP isn't spot on, as Cam and I put it back on it's old marks when we had it off to replace some o-rings.
pulled over east of fernie and met a guy named Gord parting a 60, selling a 45 3b, another 45, a 40, and he had two 75 frames painted up and ready to rebuild. anyone looking for bits from those trucks, I have his coordinates.