Izzy's amateur hour

[sleepycruiser]

When refilling, why do we use the little hole with the square head bolt and not the bigass hole for the sensor?
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So when greasing the knuckles, which bolt should come off? The square head bolt on the left of this pic??

 

[izzyandsue]

Yup, the square one is the inspect and fill one. Clean around it well first so dirt don't fall in

 

[sleepycruiser]

Thanks. Grease coming in Monday....had to order it in....so will be doing that next week and I have never done it.

 

[izzyandsue]

Well, what I thought was the balancer seal leak, is really the chain cover gasket leak. And that's an ankle grabbing moment of truth pricewice. Decided not to do it, it's a very small leak anyways. The good thing is I met Johnny from Toyota Techs, very nice guy, asked him to fix another front dif leak and look under my truck from anything else he sees that needs attention. Might as well as the truck was there.

He has some very nice iron on the lot too!

Good looking 80 with front bra, anyone recognize it?

 

[RedHeadedStepChild]

Gotta love a black bra on a big girl from the 90s.

 

[JToobe]

Any pics on the two tone 62 in the background?

 

[izzyandsue]

Nope, that's all I took. Dont know if those are customer cars or there for potential sale

 

[forrest5000]

Will not sell a thing.

 

[izzyandsue]

Misty eyed, weepy, my baby is no longer a low mile baby!

 

[izzyandsue]

A/C idler, was making a racket (I think it was) belts squealing but the tension was correct so I figure it was worth it today before day got swamped with other house work. The truck was squealing non-stop yesterday at Uwharrie, noise pollution!

A/C idler bearing

It was nasty and dried up with gunk, cleaned up well with brake clean and a pick, and now has full new bearing grease.
I let the truck idle for a good long while, loading cases of soda at the High School and taking them to the concession stand, then idling at the concession stand. A good hour of idle, and all is quiet, no more squeals. https://forum.ih8mud.com/members/johnvee.71506/ we need to do this to your truck!

 

[JohnVee]

Nope. Needed a new one. It'll be here Monday. Old one was beyond salvage.

 

[sleepycruiser]

Let the engine cool for 20, repeat the process as the water in the funnel miss with the rest of the coolant and will look like this. After refilling and running engine hot and thermostat open, I am letting it cool overnight. Tomorrow will repeat process until it comes out clean. I didn't want to open engine cock, with my luck I will strip the bolt and will need big repairs. So flush it is, going to need more buckets.
I guess no matter what you do, some tap water will remain in the system? Will flush with distilled water at the end, realizing that one gallon will remain in system

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So after draining you used a water hose to flush water in and out, let the tap water sit over night and then used distilled to finish it up? Then added the coolant?

I have to do the PHH soon and need to flush the coolant at the same time.

 

[izzyandsue]

I recommend to follow the instruction I have on post 116. Nothing overnight, and don't use any cleaning agents, just water.

 

[izzyandsue]

Finally got a chance to install the rice block before the rain started. Was able to reroute the fog lamps and remove the inline fuses and use the block fuses, worked great. Routed the ham radio to it as well, so now I have the mobile mounted on the inner passenger foot well. Everything works!

 

[izzyandsue]

Continuing to perfect the ham situation, d chided to get a Padholder for the ipad, its beefier and much more rigid than the cheapie gooseneck I had. Trying this setup, use one of the screws on the face of the padholder to hold the ham faceplate.
Replace two upper screws with thumb screws to allow some adjustment for iPad in/out. Will test this weekend at Richland Rd.

 

[izzyandsue]

And finally installed the D2 driving lights I won at the American Adventurist. I tested and they use the same plug as the KC, same size fuse, so removed the KC and reused the harness. These are at least 4'tmes brighter than the KC!

Just the headlights

Just the D2's!

 

[tgadd]

Those D2 lights are bright! You'll have more tech in your truck than a Dakar rally rig before you know it.

 

[sleepycruiser]

Massive light difference. Looks good.

 

[izzyandsue]

Back to the ham and iPad setup, here's what it looks like face plate mounted, the main unit is blow. I used thumb screws so I can easily remove the radio and bring it home. Easy to move, the only dangling part is the mic, no pun intended.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Nice setup!! Do you have a SIM card in that ipad for data or does everything have to be pre-loaded?