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Fitzy from http://townienews.blogspot.com/ pure comedy gold. 
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Seen it many times. Forgot about him. He said Satan Manning and I pissed myself.
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Got a bunch of pig work done on Sunday.
The back brakes are in GREAT shape, cylinders aren't leaky and adjust easily, shoes adn drums are fine, there are even some new hard lines. The lugnuts were'nt even close to tight enough though. My guess is whoever had tehm off last didn't ahve a think walled socket so the were only tighted to the rim face, not cunk in like they are supposed to be. I've got them set right now but the hindsight is scary.
Can't find my fuel leak issue, not sure how to progress with that. Figure I'll go top it off at the as station with a pal so I can watch from inside and see if I can detect where it's leaking.
Cleaned out the back fender areas and need to get those patched up... it's wide open to the ground at this point.
Can't get the little service door in the cargo floor off, the screws are stripped and my attempts to grind them off didn't work. What is under there? I was hoping it would lead me to my fuel leak issue.
Picked up some metal to temporarily repair my floor. There is a hole where the Pside front seat mount sits and it rocks, SOOOO not safe. I've got a plan to patch that up for now, ugly but safe and inspectable. I really need to plan to take the truck floor completely down to bare metal at some point in the future and weld in a lot of floor patches. The PO's patches are really boggling, lots of different materials used including what I think is very heavy tar paper or maybe lead roof flashing. ????
Need to figure out a few electrical things and get my dash back together as well. I pulled the stereo and all the speaker wires. I still have 2 or 3 wires that are just stuck into the fuse panel that are related to the SCB swap so I'm in the processor figuring out exactly what is what and install and underhood aux fuse block to accommodate them.
Fan switch still doesn't work and I can't seem to pull the dash panel out far enough to get to the back of it.
All in all, I'm still pretty happy with the truck, it's been a project but for how cheap I got it it's been well worth it.
More later....
The back brakes are in GREAT shape, cylinders aren't leaky and adjust easily, shoes adn drums are fine, there are even some new hard lines. The lugnuts were'nt even close to tight enough though. My guess is whoever had tehm off last didn't ahve a think walled socket so the were only tighted to the rim face, not cunk in like they are supposed to be. I've got them set right now but the hindsight is scary.
Can't find my fuel leak issue, not sure how to progress with that. Figure I'll go top it off at the as station with a pal so I can watch from inside and see if I can detect where it's leaking.
Cleaned out the back fender areas and need to get those patched up... it's wide open to the ground at this point.
Can't get the little service door in the cargo floor off, the screws are stripped and my attempts to grind them off didn't work. What is under there? I was hoping it would lead me to my fuel leak issue.Picked up some metal to temporarily repair my floor. There is a hole where the Pside front seat mount sits and it rocks, SOOOO not safe. I've got a plan to patch that up for now, ugly but safe and inspectable. I really need to plan to take the truck floor completely down to bare metal at some point in the future and weld in a lot of floor patches. The PO's patches are really boggling, lots of different materials used including what I think is very heavy tar paper or maybe lead roof flashing. ????
Need to figure out a few electrical things and get my dash back together as well. I pulled the stereo and all the speaker wires. I still have 2 or 3 wires that are just stuck into the fuse panel that are related to the SCB swap so I'm in the processor figuring out exactly what is what and install and underhood aux fuse block to accommodate them.
Fan switch still doesn't work and I can't seem to pull the dash panel out far enough to get to the back of it.
All in all, I'm still pretty happy with the truck, it's been a project but for how cheap I got it it's been well worth it.
More later....
That service door should lead to the sender for the fuel gage on top of the tank...
Nick
Nick
Progress looks good Dave. Gas tank leak- how about stuffing a rag in the filler and putting some low pressure air into the tank and listening for the air for the air leak. I have done it to find a leak with sucess. Is it registered and on the road yet?
Dave you can try a drill and some screw extractors.
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The pig she is testing me!!!!!
The Pside floor near the door is worse then I thought... no way I can patch it up the way I thought.
It really needs the front seat out and a LOT of stuff cut out and replaced. Pretty much firewall to back floor hump on the Pside. The Dside isn't nearly as bad but I worry about that, too.
The PO used some sort of heavy roof shingles or something to cover the floor then painted them, even has a block of WOOD between the frame and one of the underfloor ribs.
I knew it was rough but I'm still a bit discouraged tonight. I've had some VERY generous offers of help but this is a big job and I think I might just be best off to suck it up and have someone do it all--once--correctly. I'll call the local fab guy tomorrow and bend his ear see if I can see him Saturday for an estimate. If it's too pricey then I'll be hitting up some of the generous mudders who've offered to help.
In the meantime I will ignore the floor and get the rest of the truck ready to go.
Big ups to my lovely wife for her extreme patience and understanding btw, I keep expecting her to get frustrated that it's not road ready yet but she hasn't complained once and is very encouraging about me doing so much work, learning, etc. She's a keepah.
The Pside floor near the door is worse then I thought... no way I can patch it up the way I thought.
It really needs the front seat out and a LOT of stuff cut out and replaced. Pretty much firewall to back floor hump on the Pside. The Dside isn't nearly as bad but I worry about that, too.
The PO used some sort of heavy roof shingles or something to cover the floor then painted them, even has a block of WOOD between the frame and one of the underfloor ribs.
I knew it was rough but I'm still a bit discouraged tonight. I've had some VERY generous offers of help but this is a big job and I think I might just be best off to suck it up and have someone do it all--once--correctly. I'll call the local fab guy tomorrow and bend his ear see if I can see him Saturday for an estimate. If it's too pricey then I'll be hitting up some of the generous mudders who've offered to help.
In the meantime I will ignore the floor and get the rest of the truck ready to go.
Big ups to my lovely wife for her extreme patience and understanding btw, I keep expecting her to get frustrated that it's not road ready yet but she hasn't complained once and is very encouraging about me doing so much work, learning, etc. She's a keepah.
Dave try to not get to discouraged. Look at it as a long term project any when you are don't it will be just how you want it.
dave its time to sellit and by another 4 runner.....
i wish you were closer we could cut the bad out and weld in new on a saturday afternoon.
Jason
i wish you were closer we could cut the bad out and weld in new on a saturday afternoon.
Jason
Just put some shingles in there and cover it with a carpet
Dave, why not give it a temp fix, then when you can give it more attention, (like winter), take it down and do it over right. You will learn a lot this way.
Pull out the seat, (10min.)
Find some scrap sheet metal, (I hear street signs work great).
Hammer it into a shape and screw it down with some rubber mat on top.
Pull it up in late fall & fix it with steel.
Good luck.
Dave, why not give it a temp fix, then when you can give it more attention, (like winter), take it down and do it over right. You will learn a lot this way.
Pull out the seat, (10min.)
Find some scrap sheet metal, (I hear street signs work great).
Hammer it into a shape and screw it down with some rubber mat on top.
Pull it up in late fall & fix it with steel.
Good luck.
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Just put some shingles in there and cover it with a carpet
Dave, why not give it a temp fix, then when you can give it more attention, (like winter), take it down and do it over right. You will learn a lot this way.
Pull out the seat, (10min.)
Find some scrap sheet metal, (I hear street signs work great).
Hammer it into a shape and screw it down with some rubber mat on top.
Pull it up in late fall & fix it with steel.
Good luck.
After a night to sleep on it I think I'll pull the front seat and patch it up ghetto style as best I can then plan to have it at Kina's or Wally's this winter for fresh metal.
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Fitzy from http://townienews.blogspot.com/ pure comedy gold.
Lol. Well, laddy fawkin' da.
Fitzy from http://townienews.blogspot.com/ pure comedy gold.
"Cuz he's a meat whistler...right?"
Brought me to tears.
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Pulled all the fuses and cleaned the contacts, the fuses were all good, cleaned the up and reinstalled everything including the multitude of wires that are jammed in there. The fan works again!! Just on high but that's fine by me.
Now I can put my dash back together. i think I'll try to find a CB to fit the radio holed.
Fiddling with one of my turn signals, it wasn't blinking (the other side is fine) which from my research is a bad ground but in the process I busted off 3 or the 4 screws holding the assembly on. Time do to some drilling.
Finally found a few gallons of 90wt finally so I'll be draining the tcase and trans, putting in the new ebrake shoes and refilling.
Got my TRE set from SOR yesterday so once I finish at the back of the truck and get it turned around again I'll tackle that project. Need to hit all those joints with PB Blaster a few times this weekend. Nice to add 1 more SOR receipt to the STACK of them in the PO's records.
Gary is swinging by this afternoon to check out my masterpiece. He'll be the first once other then Jason (fogblanket) so see it in person.
Alright, I need to put in my kitchen backsplah now, more later....
Just on high but that's fine by me.Now I can put my dash back together. i think I'll try to find a CB to fit the radio holed.
Fiddling with one of my turn signals, it wasn't blinking (the other side is fine) which from my research is a bad ground but in the process I busted off 3 or the 4 screws holding the assembly on. Time do to some drilling.
Finally found a few gallons of 90wt finally so I'll be draining the tcase and trans, putting in the new ebrake shoes and refilling.
Got my TRE set from SOR yesterday so once I finish at the back of the truck and get it turned around again I'll tackle that project. Need to hit all those joints with PB Blaster a few times this weekend. Nice to add 1 more SOR receipt to the STACK of them in the PO's records.
Gary is swinging by this afternoon to check out my masterpiece.
He'll be the first once other then Jason (fogblanket) so see it in person. Alright, I need to put in my kitchen backsplah now, more later....
that would look sweet with a red roof