Builds Live in Texas, drive a pickup: HDJ79 single cab build

[SNLC]

A little tip for future projects that you probably figured out, pull the tape when paint is still wet.

Cheers

 

[bottombracket]

Yeah, I had to leave with my little kids as soon as I got the paint laid down. I figured I could just razor blade it off....which I am indeed doing.

 

[2fpower]

I find a blue scotch brite pad on angle grinder will clean those surfaces and avoid the razor blades blues.

Amazon product ASIN B01HUNAUFE
and, is there another cruiserhead named Kelly?

 

[destructomatt]

What did you have Pacific Fuel Injection do to the pump?

 

[KennyBob]

Poverty pack,man, poverty pack.

Manual windows, manual locks, no sunroof, no power antenna, no flares, vinyl floors, barn doors. 1HZ, h150 manual transmission, part time t case, but yes to A/C.

Just the way God intended.

 

[bottombracket]

@2fpower awesome tip, and there’s another Kelly.

@destructomatt they just did a basic reseal, calibration, cold start delete.

@KennyBob and then I sell her and get a fully loaded diesel 80. Lordy.

 

[2fpower]

Well, I never met a guy named Kelly that was not a stand up person. I guess this town is big enough for the two of us......

Cheers,

Kelly

 

[77mustard40]

Well, I never met a guy named Kelly that was not a stand up person. I guess this town is big enough for the two of us......

Cheers,

Kelly

... and right back at you!

Cheers,

Kelly

 

[bottombracket]

No pics, but I got all the tape off (using only a few razor blades). I touched up a few areas I had missed, mostly placed on the head that you could only see if you were upside down under the intake manifold. OCD is a bitch.

I have to work all weekend, but maybe I can start to put the motor back together. Then, we mock up the transmission and stick the motor in the engine bay to test fit.

 

[FJBen]

Personally I wouldn’t use scotch brite pads anywhere near open ports on an engine. That Abrasive dust is bad getting in the oil and ports.

 

[bottombracket]

Today I got everything unmasked and chased all the threads. I invested in a full re-threading set of taps and dies. Tomorrow the parts start going back on.

Through the heavily tinted windshield of the new 80, you can barely make out Nate sitting where he shouldn’t be sitting.

 

[2fpower]

Those little thread files at the bottom of your kit are lifesavers. Everyone should have those.....

 

[Mr Cimarron]

Those little thread files at the bottom of your kit are lifesavers. Everyone should have those.....

I threw mine in my tool bag in the 80 after last years Round Up after watching them being used in a pinch to fix threads.

 

[77mustard40]

I threw mine in my tool bag in the 80 after last years Round Up after watching them being used in a pinch to fix threads.

Same here Cim.... Marlin gave us a clinic on the uses at Tucker74’s expense. I use mine all the time just to figure out thread pitch if I’m replacing hardware, or with my new to me 80 trying to figure out what wrong bolt the previous shade tree mechanic used.

 

[bottombracket]

What was I thinking?

I realized today that I am in no way ready to put things back together.

The exhaust manifold was filthy. I spent all afternoon wire wheeling it and got it masked and primed with high heat primer.

Also, all the fasteners are filthy and corroded. So I spent all last night ordering replacement hardware.

In today’s final problem, I realize that I have been keeping terrible inventory control. I have hundreds, if not thousands of tiny washers, O-rings, bolts, and assorted parts with no logical system of organization. I should be putting this into an Excel spreadsheet, but I started just with a handwritten list of all the fasteners and parts in their relationships to one another in logical groups. So far, I’m up to four handwritten pages, and that’s just for the accessories.

 

[SNLC]

Hey if you need any help identifying hit me up, we bagged and tagged everything from the FT we are doing.

Also we had to get the hardware from several sources, only four studs on the entire engine we found NLA.

Our FT is going back together, let me know if you need any pics or whatever.

Cheers

 

[bottombracket]

I have all of the old stuff separated by components and organized, it’s all the NEW stuff that I don’t have organized…

I have easily a dozen Partsouq boxes with HJ61 stuff, 80 stuff, 79 stuff, FT stuff. Bad planning.

 

[c2dfj45]

I have all of the old stuff separated by components and organized, it’s all the NEW stuff that I don’t have organized…

I have easily a dozen Partsouq boxes with HJ61 stuff, 80 stuff, 79 stuff, FT stuff. Bad planning.

I found that I immediately have to print out my order and go thru it to make notes on what I'm ordering for(same issue....multiple trucks)....when it comes in, I go thru the shipment and write what it is for or where it goes on the bags....then it goes on the shelf for that build. I bought so much hardware early on that by the time I got it, I'd have no idea what it was for, let alone which truck. Needless to say, I have a lot of hardware that needs a home. Sometimes I get lucky and I can put the number in Megazip and figure out the application but sometimes it's generic. The motor stuff was the larger challenge....some of that hardware has a generic description which really makes it puzzling as to where it goes.

 

[Mr Cimarron]

We should have a organize your shop day.

 

[bottombracket]

Both you and @Unoman have noted the need for a deep clean. Maybe after Roundup.

We still need to have a barn warming party/barn crawl.