Logan's Run 2016 - Sept 15-18 2016

[Trollhole]

UNREAL!!! Phil from Fred Anderson just gave me some incredible news!! Thanks to Fred Anderson's Toyota parts distributor, SET (South East Toyota) Fred Anderson will now be donating around $5000, yes $5000, worth of prizes!!! HOLY CRAP!!!

That means our raffle is right now around $8500 in raffle prizes


That means you should REGISTER!!! Raffle tickets only cost $1!!

You are the man!

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Johnny, I will take Medium 2 on Saturday.

You're signed up!! Thank you sir!!

You are the man!

Just doing my part

 

[lt1fire]

UNREAL!!! Phil from Fred Anderson just gave me some incredible news!! Thanks to Fred Anderson's Toyota parts distributor, SET (South East Toyota) Fred Anderson will now be donating around $5000, yes $5000, worth of prizes!!! HOLY CRAP!!!

That means our raffle is right now around $8500 in raffle prizes


That means you should REGISTER!!! Raffle tickets only cost $1!!

wow that's great!! Thanks to F.A.T. For doing that!

 

[bronxzoo26]

Finally got a chance to register! Done son.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Finally got a chance to register! Done son.

I didn't see any today! When did you register?

EDIT: just saw it come through! Can't wait to meet you!

 

[bronxzoo26]

I didn't see any today! When did you register?

EDIT: just saw it come through! Can't wait to meet you!

Yeah I can't wait to meet everyone.

 

[BMThiker]

Registered/paid

Well, I'm out. Because of the damage I suffered last weekend, I will run out of the weekends and proper break-in/shakedown mileage before this event. Really hate that I'm going to miss it.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Well, I'm out. Because of the damage I suffered last weekend, I will run out of the weekends and proper break-in/shakedown mileage before this event. Really hate that I'm going to miss it.

What damage did you incur?

 

[BMThiker]

Don't have a full diagnosis yet, but suspect I utterly failed in my first rear diff rebuild.

Friday morning I was on my way to meet my Upstate folks in the GA/SC/NC mountains for a 3-day weekend. After running up I-85 to the stateline and then Hwy 11 to Walhalla, the plan was to meet up with them along the Chattooga river near Burrells Ford. I was just getting on the first gravel road and threw it in 4HI (just to disengage VSC and make it mo' fun). About 4-5 miles in and doing about 25mph... suddenly rear wheels lock up, screeches to a halt. My first thought was gravel locked up a rotor, but couldn't be...both wheels locked up at same time. I get out and look around to see if I scattered any parts/debris on the road behind, but nothing. I crawl under and look around, nothing obvious. I touch the rear axle housing near the fill plug and it's on scalding hot. FML...my best guess is that something I did during the diff rebuild was not right, although I've already put 1000+ miles on it and had just dropped the break-in fluid with no evidence of something awry. It had new fluid that was a week old. Then I suspect that the tcase nuked because I was in 4Hi when the rear diff seized. Nothing was leaking though.

I haven't had cell signal in the last 45 minutes, so I hail my friends on the Ham - who are miraculously within range (another 4-5 miles north of me). In the meantime, I cycle through all possible drive modes and find that in 4LO, 1st gear I can barely move the truck forward. I can't seem to get it back into 2WD, and everything in the drive train feels like it is bound up. I get it to a better spot on the side of road and park it. The cavalry arrives.

Marshall says to me, I gotta come through Atlanta this coming week anyway, we'll get it towed off the gravel and I can pick it up on Tuesday. Woo hoo! We pile my gear into his truck, empty the fridge into his cooler and head to Cashiers, NC to look for cell service. Not much signal but enough to find a tow company in Walhalla, SC that will have a driver available "soon". That put us in standby mode for a couple hours and the rest of the gang powered on to our camp spot for the night.

Rollback truck arrives and I tell him that he's going to have to drag it onto the rollback because it won't move easily on its own. But after 2hrs of cooling off, whatever seized earlier is now free and I'm able to drive it onto the truck bed. Something is definitely grinding, but sounds like tcase to me, not the diff. Doesn't really matter, both will be replaced. I'll just be curious to open the tcase and see what it looks like, well same for the 3rd too.

I've been restocking my spares department recently and have a rear DS on its way to me already from a totaled 100K odo FJ on a parts lot. Called them back this morning and they still have the tcase and front DS so ordered both. I'll probably just get a rebuilt diff from ECGS and send them my roasted one for core.

DON'T FREEAAAK OUT, THIS IS JUST THE .......









Donor vehicle...

Mine on the rollback tow, Burrells Ford Rd . . . .

 

[OGBeno]

^^^^^ No fxxxing likey.....

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Nooo!!! You said you did the rear diff rebuild yourself? Did you take notes of what backlash and preload you used?

Curious to see what you find when you tear it apart. Sorry to hear about the tow bud

 

[QsLC75]

Strongly considering coming with Lil Mush (29 mo old) in the 100. What 100 parts did SET/Fred Anderson Toyota throw into the raffle?

 

[BMThiker]

Nooo!!! You said you did the rear diff rebuild yourself? Did you take notes of what backlash and preload you used?

Curious to see what you find when you tear it apart. Sorry to hear about the tow bud

somewhere around 7-8 mics backlash and 21 inch/lbs on pinion rotation

 

[1974FJ]

Paid,
By myself right now, may have an open seat if the wife or brother doesn't join me.

 

[Trapper]

Hoping to make it out there with the family Friday night or early Saturday, but I have to wait and see if someone will switch call with me. Fingers crossed!

 

[GLTHFJ60]

Strongly considering coming with Lil Mush (29 mo old) in the 100. What 100 parts did SET/Fred Anderson Toyota throw into the raffle?

Not 100% sure yet. Fred Anderson itself has donated an ARB 50qt fridge and their parts distributor is giving a bunch more. I'll know more on Wednesday.

Paid,
By myself right now, may have an open seat if the wife or brother doesn't join me.

Nice!!! Can't wait bro!!

 

[AUGuy]

@GLTHFJ60 whats the details on the raffle? Do we need to purchase in advance?

 

[KevinNY]

Paid up.

 

[GLTHFJ60]

@GLTHFJ60 whats the details on the raffle? Do we need to purchase in advance?

You do not need to purchase in advance, you simply have the option to Raffle ticket will most definitely be for sale at the event.

Remember, you need to be present to win!!

 

[AndrewHadji]

really trying to make this work, with the 70 series meetup the following weekend, not sure if i can take the time off, but am trying. Next year for sure