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PNWTreeOctopus
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Its always risky using hitherto in 2021, but especially on a Land Cruiser forum.
Point and shoot I say….Its always risky using hitherto in 2021, but especially on a Land Cruiser forum.
FMC80
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G, I can’t believe the frequency of your updates. Hath hell freezeth overeth? Yeah, I’m not as eloquent a writer as you 
Btw, when I extracted mine own PCV grommet, it too had mysteriously multiplied within the baffles of VC mine. Yeah I can’t do this Oxford English stuff. Glad I’m not alone on the PCV grommet front. .
Btw, when I extracted mine own PCV grommet, it too had mysteriously multiplied within the baffles of VC mine. Yeah I can’t do this Oxford English stuff. Glad I’m not alone on the PCV grommet front. .
PNWTreeOctopus
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G, I can’t believe the frequency of your updates. Hath hell freezeth overeth? Yeah, I’m not as eloquent a writer as you
Btw, when I extracted mine own PCV grommet, it too had mysteriously multiplied within the baffles of VC mine. Yeah I can’t do this Oxford English stuff. Glad I’m not alone on the PCV grommet front. .
I’m disappointed to learn that I’m not the only one to find a busted PCV remnant in their valve cover. I mean I got it out, and I’ve replaceded exactly 0.0 PCV valves before this. I guess I followed the logic of: “that broken pice of rubber shouldn’t stay in there, so I’ll get it out”.Stay with me for a minute…I once helped a friend hang an axe he had broken the handle on. It was given to him by his grandfather a long time ago, who engraved to
redacted for national security reasons)from: grandpa. It was a house axe, similar to a boys axe but with a short handle. Not a hatchet, not a small axe. My neighbor really wanted to bring it back to life and make it useful again (back yard fires with the family etc). I’m no expert but I’ve hung a half a dozen axes or so and loaned him a book and pointed him to the amazing USFS produced film “An axe to grind”, (which you all should stop and go watch. It’s on YouTube. Pour that dram/beer/Zima/tea and watch it) and offered to help/ hang out while we finished his project.
Anyhow a few months later I see that sweet old axe in his shed and I reminded him
I’d be happy to help him with it. A year goes by snd he walks up the driveway with a new handle and the old head and asks if he can use my bench vise. My poor neighbor then had to put up with me helping him drill out the old head and fit the new handle. If you’ve never done it before fitting the handle to the head is a process that involves scraping/rasping/filing/sanding then tapping the handle into the head (again “An Axe to grind”—go watch it), then removing the head ad scraping/rasping/filing/sanding over a d over again to get the head to sit at the right position on the handle.
At one point my friend was ready to call it good enough and pound the wedge into the handle, but I implored him to spend s few more minutes getting it closer to “perfect”. I told him it would be a shame to rush this now that he was so close to having it hung correctly-that it was worth “doing it right”. My friend then told me that, actually it was really only important to me that it was done right. He would have been just as happy if it was close enough/ merely functional. Now, please understand that he said this in a way that was not disrespectful. -he’s a good buddy. He just wanted to attach a new handle on the axe and make it useable again—and I was trying to steer him towards some transformative experience hanging that axe in the old way to connect him more closely with this beautiful old tool.
So maybe I should take it down a notch on the PCV grommets left behind by busy mechanics, especially since I’m not letting them near my truck. Fortunately I have you lot here in Land Cruiser internet land to commiserate with about how everyone is doing it wrong. But I have to laugh and think that damn hunk of grommet has been banging around in there for years and my truck didn’t explode!
Pictures just because:
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Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
Meh….we’re a bunch of OC/D’ers working a forklift motor.
If there’s still a major chunk of ozone-ed rubber up in the valve/cam area, pop & pull.
If not, PCV grommet is far less a concern than coolant passages…..grand scheme of it all.
- take as you like, it’s a forklift motor at the end of the day.
That says plenty IMO
If there’s still a major chunk of ozone-ed rubber up in the valve/cam area, pop & pull.
If not, PCV grommet is far less a concern than coolant passages…..grand scheme of it all.
- take as you like, it’s a forklift motor at the end of the day.That says plenty IMO
PNWTreeOctopus
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Well said! I appreciate this perspective.Meh….we’re a bunch of OC/D’ers working a forklift motor.
If there’s still a major chunk of ozone-ed rubber up in the valve/cam area, pop & pull.
If not, PCV grommet is far less a concern than coolant passages…..grand scheme of it all.
That says plenty IMO
PNWTreeOctopus
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Happy Thanksgiving my fellow OCDers! I hope you can be close to all you are grateful for. Maybe you’re watching football and getting ready to carve that bird. Maybe you’re hanging with your children (old or young) maybe your seeing other family, or feeling their absence. I hope you find some peace and gratitude today. We said to hell with a Turkey, so I’m filling the house with a maple stout beef stew—and I’m cheating becUse I’m using a slow cooker so I don’t have to baby sky it. Maybe we will break down a bake a pie-maybe we won’t, but we’re taking our rowdy 8 & 12 year olds to the beach…in a down pour to hunt for rocks and get muddy with the dog…if only to make the smell of stew that much more aromatic and wonderful! Lots of gratitude my 93-94 LC support community. Thanks for making this journey of mechanical learning so much fun.
PNWTreeOctopus
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Remember how I was going to go to the beach? Well the pie is taking a ling time is our drafty oven. So instead I'll post pics of my spark plugs. I really don know much about inspecting them. They all look pretty similar to me, and nothing glaring. Honestly I'm posting this pic because Pell did the same thing in his thread and Ive decided to copy him...but Im not sure I'll buy a second 80, that seems like more than I can handle! Imagine me baselining two land cruisers...hmm.
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FMC80
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Happy turkey day to you and yours G. Plugs look good from where I sit with the exception of the minor deposits on the insulator. Could mean you have oil leaking or bad gas or you use your truck for short durations and it doesn't have the chance to burn off. I'm not a spark plug expert though. I could be drunk right now making people believe the nonsense I write for the sole purpose of misguiding people. But probably not. Here's an eye chart I loathe that I'll share with you so you can loathe it too.
PNWTreeOctopus
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I’m already there. I’m struggling to see all the differences….oh well! I’m having another stout! the pup agrees.
The dog is obviously in deep contemplation.
PNWTreeOctopus
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Well that was a good meal and some nice family time. I'm back at the computer and Ive been assembling a parts order from McGeorge toyota for a handful of things, and the online cart keeps stalling out. Well low and behold they cannot ship to WA, or RI because of changes to "tax laws".
"We cannot ship to Washington State or Rhode Island due to changes in their tax laws. "
Thats fine, we have a bunch of tax laws (as do most of the states in the union), but I hate wasting my time with stupid internet malfunctions. I had to dig around into their shipping policies to figure this out. So maybe I will deal with the local toyota people here in Bellingham, but it will cost me literally twice as much. They usually price over MSRP, and make you feel like you are luck to have thier attention. I've griped about them in the past.
Anyhow FWIW no McGeorge to WA (or RI) which sucks because they were really nice to deal with, and had excellent prices. I'll go cry into my coffee now.
"We cannot ship to Washington State or Rhode Island due to changes in their tax laws. "
Thats fine, we have a bunch of tax laws (as do most of the states in the union), but I hate wasting my time with stupid internet malfunctions. I had to dig around into their shipping policies to figure this out. So maybe I will deal with the local toyota people here in Bellingham, but it will cost me literally twice as much. They usually price over MSRP, and make you feel like you are luck to have thier attention. I've griped about them in the past.
Anyhow FWIW no McGeorge to WA (or RI) which sucks because they were really nice to deal with, and had excellent prices. I'll go cry into my coffee now.
FMC80
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G, check out this site: Toyota OEM Parts | EB TOYOTA PARTS | toyotaparts.bochtoyotasouth.com | Boch Toyota South - https://toyotaparts.bochtoyotasouth.com/
They’re cheaper than many. They rival mcgeorge easily. They don’t charge me tax for whatever reason. It’s pretty sweet.
They’re cheaper than many. They rival mcgeorge easily. They don’t charge me tax for whatever reason. It’s pretty sweet.
PNWTreeOctopus
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I was rebuilding my short list at Toyota Parts Deal, but some things require a minimum order of 10, which isn't helpful. I'll go this route!
PNWTreeOctopus
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Excellent, Thank you for this suggestion!
Partsouq has become my go to for oem parts unless it’s a very small order where the shipping cost from the UAE would cost more than the local dealer. Their prices are the lowest you will find.
Washington requires them to collect taxes and pay the state. They likely don't see the work to be worth the profit.
Georgia requires taxes too. I just ordered from them last month, no problems, unless this is some new policy.
