Wow 44 is going to be working like the little pack mule we know these things are. I like your new tag line Danny and will be following your adventure!! Pics are great.
Builds My '78 FJ40 "44" (4 Viewers)
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That sucks Danny Keep us posted on what you find.
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Well, SHEE - IT, Danny, and here I thought you were gonna be ruff'in it!
That is ruffin' it... I debated bringing the kitchen fridge/freezer and my recliner, but ultimately decided against it.
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Thanks Tom!,
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Get that girl fixed...... so we can get our “Wild West” picture fix
*Hopefully it won’t cost so much that you can’t at least think about getting a sat phone!
I've been trying to make this trip for 5 years... with all my surgeries and issues, the closest I've come is three years ago and I blew my tricep tendon out, got dumped on with snow, and had daily temps in the low 20s.
Today, on the way to the same area, this happened...
Since now is the best timing for such a trip, Chester and I have discussed this, at length, and decided we are transferring our FEW supplies to the Tundra and will leave in a couple of days.
I'll take care of 44 when we get back.
If I run into problems with the Tundra, I will take it as an omen and make other plans... Never to return to the Alta Toquima Wilderness... There are many other wildernesses in Nevada... Table Mountain and Arc Dome are in the same area... Just a mountain range east and a mountain range west.
I asked Dianna if she wanted to take the trailer and accompany us and she said, "I really have my heart set on doing spring cleaning"... I said, "well, alrighty then.".
So... There WILL be pictures... you'll just have to imagine 44 in them.
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Exactly!! Where we are going is about 80 miles from Eureka, NV... The only town of "size" (pop 610)... so, not much chance of assistance.
Much as I hated to abort, it was the only intelligent thing to do... sure glad Chester pointed it out!!
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BTW
I'm running the tranny-tcase bypass hose and the undercarriage has been fully undercoated. It appears the oil is coming from between the tcase and tranny (same place it was leaking earlier).
The source is not blatantly obvious.
The skid plate had quite a bit of puddling... The bolt heads in the back of the tcase show uv dye (that I added to the tranny a while back)... e-brake cable shows uv dye... The e-brake is probably saturated.
But, the uv dye is comingled in both the tranny and t-case, at this point.
I'm not sure just where it's coming from...,so, I'm taking it to Dan's Driveline in the morning, to see what they say.
I'm running the tranny-tcase bypass hose and the undercarriage has been fully undercoated. It appears the oil is coming from between the tcase and tranny (same place it was leaking earlier).
The source is not blatantly obvious.
The skid plate had quite a bit of puddling... The bolt heads in the back of the tcase show uv dye (that I added to the tranny a while back)... e-brake cable shows uv dye... The e-brake is probably saturated.
But, the uv dye is comingled in both the tranny and t-case, at this point.
I'm not sure just where it's coming from...,so, I'm taking it to Dan's Driveline in the morning, to see what they say.
My ‘01 Tundra is still hard at it at 365K, it will get you there Danny. Just not as much of a cool factor or old School ruggedness as our 40’s. Happy trails my friend.
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Dang, that dosen't sound good Danny. The rig looked well packed and ready to go. It's amazing how much you can pack into one of these rigs. I hope you get up and running soon.
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Ok... confession time 
A while back, I created a thread to get insights into the minor leak I had (apparently) between the tranny and tcase.
I mentioned, in that thread, that I had removed the bypass hose because I felt the it was allowing too much oil to be retained in the tcase, rather than flow it back to the tranny.
Based on that discussion, I elected to reinstall the bypass hose, drive 44 and monitor the gear oil levels.
Well, I took 44 to Dan’s Driveline and a younger, named Brick creeped under there and immediately said, “I see your major problem”.
I asked “what?” and he said “this oil line, that connects to the two fill plugs, is canted enough to allow oil spray at highway speeds”.
I climbed on the creeper and had a look and, with Brick pointing it out, I could just make barely out a very slight space on one side of the crush washer... the kind of thing that’s really hard to discern nowadays.
Brick drew a picture to explain that the banjo connector is being skewed by the ridge on the tcase. He suggested I pull it and grind it and tighten it down again.
This time I’ll use a magnifying glass to make sure it’s snug in all sides.
I’ve had this bypass hose problem all along... probably had it snugged down more before.
So, the bad news... wasted time.
The good news... I have time... I can fix it... the undercarriage is well oiled.
A while back, I created a thread to get insights into the minor leak I had (apparently) between the tranny and tcase.
I mentioned, in that thread, that I had removed the bypass hose because I felt the it was allowing too much oil to be retained in the tcase, rather than flow it back to the tranny.
Based on that discussion, I elected to reinstall the bypass hose, drive 44 and monitor the gear oil levels.
Well, I took 44 to Dan’s Driveline and a younger, named Brick creeped under there and immediately said, “I see your major problem”.
I asked “what?” and he said “this oil line, that connects to the two fill plugs, is canted enough to allow oil spray at highway speeds”.
I climbed on the creeper and had a look and, with Brick pointing it out, I could just make barely out a very slight space on one side of the crush washer... the kind of thing that’s really hard to discern nowadays.
Brick drew a picture to explain that the banjo connector is being skewed by the ridge on the tcase. He suggested I pull it and grind it and tighten it down again.
This time I’ll use a magnifying glass to make sure it’s snug in all sides.
I’ve had this bypass hose problem all along... probably had it snugged down more before.
So, the bad news... wasted time.
The good news... I have time... I can fix it... the undercarriage is well oiled.
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Oh... and the other bad news... I had already unpacked 44 and packed the Tundra.
The good news, the Tundra has great AC and it was already a very hot drive yesterday.
So, I’m going to fix 44 and mull over unpacking the Tundra and repacking 44.
I know Chester would prefer AC...
The good news, the Tundra has great AC and it was already a very hot drive yesterday.
So, I’m going to fix 44 and mull over unpacking the Tundra and repacking 44.
I know Chester would prefer AC...
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That's great news.
Ok... confession time
A while back, I created a thread to get insights into the minor leak I had (apparently) between the tranny and tcase.
I mentioned, in that thread, that I had removed the bypass hose because I felt the it was allowing too much oil to be retained in the tcase, rather than flow it back to the tranny.
Based on that discussion, I elected to reinstall the bypass hose, drive 44 and monitor the gear oil levels.
Well, I took 44 to Dan’s Driveline and a younger, named Brick creeped under there and immediately said, “I see your major problem”.
I asked “what?” and he said “this oil line, that connects to the two fill plugs, is canted enough to allow oil spray at highway speeds”.
I climbed on the creeper and had a look and, with Brick pointing it out, I could just make barely out a very slight space on one side of the crush washer... the kind of thing that’s really hard to discern nowadays.
Brick drew a picture to explain that the banjo connector is being skewed by the ridge on the tcase. He suggested I pull it and grind it and tighten it down again.
This time I’ll use a magnifying glass to make sure it’s snug in all sides.
I’ve had this bypass hose problem all along... probably had it snugged down more before.
So, the bad news... wasted time.
The good news... I have time... I can fix it... the undercarriage is well oiled.
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Yep... here’s what I pulled out/off of 44 and loaded into the Tundra... there is much more than there appears to be.
I don't know if you will see this before you leave, but have a good trip and God be with you. If you do have a chance to see this, one thing we have done to help the ice live longer is to cover the ice chest with blankets/extra sleeping bags. I'm anxiously awaiting a full report when you get back home.
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One of my favorite threads.
Please keep up the pictures of the great adventure.
Solitude is very calming indeed, for those that appreciate it.
Please keep up the pictures of the great adventure.
Solitude is very calming indeed, for those that appreciate it.
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Well... we took the Tundra to the Alta Toquima Wilderness and camped just outside of it, in the Pine Creek Campground (7500'). The weather was great... Bordering on warm in the daytime and cold at night.
I captured (screenshot) a 2-week weather forecast before we left and everything was looking great... Then, Wednesday, we drove 160 miles round trip to Eureka, NV... We'd never been there... The town wasn't worth the drive, but the scenery was great... Plus, we picked up a jar of Pace Picante Sauce, for tortilla soup... So, the drive was justified.
While in Eureka, with a cell signal, I checked weatherforyou.com and found every wilderness in Central Nevada with snow forecast for Fri (today) thru Mon night... And wind chills down to 11 degrees. That's a little extreme for a fun adventure... Especially when you consider the mud after the snowmelt... Chester is an 80 lb mud sponge and IH8MUD!!
Wednesday night, we talked it over and decided to break camp and drive to Tonopah and research other places... We couldn't find a single place we wanted to visit that was not expecting the same weather... So, we drove on home Thursday afternoon.
We're going up the Arc Dome Wilderness (camp on San Juan Creek, on the west side of Arc Dome, one th east side of the Reese River Valley... We especially love that area... The hiking is great and it's a real sojourn for solace in solitude... Never seen more than a couple of people in there, during a two week stay. We'll leave by Wednesday.
In the meantime, I dropped the tcase-tranny bypass hose and topped off the tranny (tcase was fine... As expected) and reinstalled the bypass hose, using a magnifying glass... So I could see that it fully seated this time.
We will be taking 44 this time... Sure hope it's not 108 this time on the trip home...
A couple of things....
First, we didn't make it to the 11.9k' summit of Mt Jefferson... We quit at 10.6k'... It was not a fun hike... The first 2-3 miles are very "scruffy"... With a lot obstacles (limbs, brush, large stones) and water to wade... we turned around after wading about 100 yds, with no end in sight, of ankle+ deep water.
Here's some of the trail
I captured (screenshot) a 2-week weather forecast before we left and everything was looking great... Then, Wednesday, we drove 160 miles round trip to Eureka, NV... We'd never been there... The town wasn't worth the drive, but the scenery was great... Plus, we picked up a jar of Pace Picante Sauce, for tortilla soup... So, the drive was justified.
While in Eureka, with a cell signal, I checked weatherforyou.com and found every wilderness in Central Nevada with snow forecast for Fri (today) thru Mon night... And wind chills down to 11 degrees. That's a little extreme for a fun adventure... Especially when you consider the mud after the snowmelt... Chester is an 80 lb mud sponge and IH8MUD!!
Wednesday night, we talked it over and decided to break camp and drive to Tonopah and research other places... We couldn't find a single place we wanted to visit that was not expecting the same weather... So, we drove on home Thursday afternoon.
We're going up the Arc Dome Wilderness (camp on San Juan Creek, on the west side of Arc Dome, one th east side of the Reese River Valley... We especially love that area... The hiking is great and it's a real sojourn for solace in solitude... Never seen more than a couple of people in there, during a two week stay. We'll leave by Wednesday.
In the meantime, I dropped the tcase-tranny bypass hose and topped off the tranny (tcase was fine... As expected) and reinstalled the bypass hose, using a magnifying glass... So I could see that it fully seated this time.
We will be taking 44 this time... Sure hope it's not 108 this time on the trip home...
A couple of things....
First, we didn't make it to the 11.9k' summit of Mt Jefferson... We quit at 10.6k'... It was not a fun hike... The first 2-3 miles are very "scruffy"... With a lot obstacles (limbs, brush, large stones) and water to wade... we turned around after wading about 100 yds, with no end in sight, of ankle+ deep water.
Here's some of the trail
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More of the "trail"... There is trout in Pine Creek, but it's sooo tight... I didn't bother chasing them
Found a hybrid flower...
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Found a hybrid flower...
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"Diana's Punch Bowl" ... 200 degree water and no way to climb out by yourself
