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[Broski]

Excellent way to protect the brake rotors Dust shields, and so on.
With the spare extra wheels!!

 

[Godwin]

Excellent way to protect the brake rotors Dust shields, and so on.
With the spare extra wheels!!

Spare wheels will be put to use when installing these axles under the Cruiser, just roll them under and without tires no need to jack things up to the clouds.

 

[Godwin]

This will be going in in a couple of weeks. Rebuilt transfer case with lower gears sets for high and low range.

 

[Godwin]

Fresh oil change and new Toyota filter, cranked it up and a few quarts were puked out at the filter. May be a torn gasket, dirt on the gasket, or an old gasket stuck to the mount. I’ll check it out in a day or two

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Buy quality oil filters. The o-ring from the previous, cheap, no-name filter stuck to the oil filter mount. Carelessness on my part that I did not check closely. This old o-ring prevented a good seal for the new OEM filter and about 7 quarts of oil were pumped out in about 30 seconds. All I wanted to do was check that the removal of the security system went well so I cranked up the engine, revved it a couple of times, allowed it to return to idle, and shut it off. The shortest drive would have led to catastrophe.

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Since this time I've put >5000 miles on the engine. I changed the oil and filter at ca. 5000 miles and had no noticeable oil consumption during this time. I'll call this no significant damage to the engine even with the massive puking of oil, but I also shut down the engine once I noticed it.

 

[Godwin]

Past few weeks I've been ripping up and down some south Alabama dirt roads. We're nearing drought conditions so dirt roads = dust, sometimes a lot of dust. Last week I noticed that I had some heavy dust intrusion into the cargo area, but also a light dust layer lay upon most surfaces within the cabin. I knew the rear quarter panels were rotted but I had not expected that that would allow dust to enter. Today I took steps to keep out the dust by stuffing some pieces of closed cell foam into the 1/4 panels and adding layers of a foil backed insulation, simply stuff I had on hand. This should help to keep dust out.

 

[Godwin]

Knuckles on the locked axle going together with new hardware. Back when parts were still relatively less expensive I stocked up on fresh knuckle rebuild hardware so dug into the stash today. New studs, cone washers, flat washers, and nuts. Once fasteners were torqued properly I added a paint mark to indicate such.

 

[BILT4ME]

You definitely need to add a snorkel, so as water levels continue to drop, you leave the canoe on top and drive the river with the LC!

 

[thatcabledude]

Don’t forget about the insulation after we start getting rain again. Unless they been replaced or some sealant applied, the clips in the belt molding under the sliding windows can let a lot of water in back there.

Speaking of drought… man, the Choctawhatchee looks pretty right now.

 

[Godwin]

Don’t forget about the insulation after we start getting rain again. Unless they been replaced or some sealant applied, the clips in the belt molding under the sliding windows can let a lot of water in back there.

Speaking of drought… man, the Choctawhatchee looks pretty right now.

Floated two sections of the Pea a couple of weeks ago and almost had to drag canoes in a couple of places.