New 80 owner!

[Wagon nut]

After putting about 2,500 on my new '94 80 I have a couple of questions

1. Last week after about 80 miles on the road I parked for about 2 hours and on my trip back the wagon refused to shift into 4 th... It shifted fine otherwise so I just drive home in 3 rd and burned some fuel!! After letting the truck cool it drove just fine. I haven't had another issue since... Fluid is clean and full. Is this the start of a failing temp sensor? That is all I can come up with.

2. Birfields are just starting to click when cold... Is the typical plan to just drive it until it gets too annoying? Or should I tear it apart and swap the axles to the other side? If i do that what is the procedure? Is it as simple as just swapping them? Or are they different lengths?

3. I need to reinstall the land cruiser badge on the back hatch... What adhesive is used?

Thanks!

 

[Woodman]

Congrats, good buy!

1. 80's LOVE neglected tranny fluid, lots of instances on Mud of perfectly functioning trannys going south after being serviced. If it is now happy again perhaps it just had to get use to new juice
2. No clue what you mean about flipping/swapping the axles? Are the Birfs belching, is what they are belching thick like tar or more liquid like? If your Birfs aren't vomiting then it could be a bearing, perhaps even a tie rod end.

 

[scottryana]

Swapping side to side is a good crutch to get a few more miles out of the OEM birfs, but just remember you will have the same weak birfs now just in reverse. I would think about saving a little and just replacing them with the replacements Slee sells. They seem to be a pretty good happy medium between OEM and Longfields. Stonger but don't wear as fast as the softer Chromoly axles.

 

[Duiser Offroad]

Welcome to the addiction!

 

[BullElk]

Congrats, good buy!

1. 80's LOVE neglected tranny fluid, lots of instances on Mud of perfectly functioning trannys going south after being serviced. If it is now happy again perhaps it just had to get use to new juice.

That's why I never change my tranny fluid in either of my 80s or 100... and possibly why I haven't had any trouble.

 

[Stevesnj]

The transmissions are the same they use in transit busses in Japan. They are very hard to destroy.

 

[Wagon nut]

The Transmission seems to have totally resolved and is shifting fine. I will order a temp sensor if it happens again, but for today leave it as is.

Regarding the Birfields, it is just clicking, not belching fluid. I am going to drive it though winter and do them in spring time. I think they will be fine unitll then since it is so minor right now.

In addition to this, i noticed while vacuming the truck this weekend that the pasenger side carpet was wet... is that typically just the drain for the sunroof being clogged?