Builds Project Snowball ❄️ 85 FJ60 Cummins 4BT/ HX-30 SUPER/ NV4500/ SOA (11 Viewers)

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Rear bumper LED lights showed up
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Will those be for reverse or just for anytime lighting?
 
Those look familiar! They're setup as reverse light now, but will be adding a rocker switch also. I hate tailgaters!


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Growing up I’ve had many mentors in my life. Of course a dad hopefully sits in the number one spot. My dad taught me how to hunt/ fish and to make a living being a pump man. My uncle taught me to ski and enjoy the outdoors. I never really had a mechanical mentor. Since I met Mike @boots4 here on IH8MUD and developed a relationship with him. He’s without a doubt the best mentor I’ve had learning about vehicles and of course suspension. I’ve learned so much from him that when I’ve solved my own problem my thanks go to Mike. It’s great to have met somebody who cares enough to teach and show others how to make them understand and gain confidence in their own mechanical knowledge. It’s taught me to be a better well rounded individual. I think things through even in conversations better. It’s taught me not to not focus on the whole but the specific problem and address it from there. This simple adjustment to my throttle cable has me so stoked. Fist bump bro! Thanks for being an awesome mentor, you encourage me every time I’m holding a wrench!
 
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Thanks Jason, it's been great working with all that good energy you have.
 
That's good, now you're using all the 3200rpm spring that we put in there. Just don't spend much time a 3200rpm due to valve float potential on stock valve springs that typically start around there. If you upgrade the valve springs this won't be an issue.
 
I installed this Grundfos solar powered well pump last year with my old man.

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Today I went back to finish the job as the house was finished. The jobs about a 2 hour drive from our shop. The views were amazing.

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Looking west toward Mt. Hood, Oregon

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Installation of the storage tank, pump
controllers and the booster pump.

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All finished and ready to head home.

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Mt. Hood with Alpenglow sunset.
 
Got my new fuel sending unit. Needed hardware to mount so took the boy to the hardware store.
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Got home tonight and calibrated the sending unit and Speedhut fuel gauge.
Full
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Empty
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Have been going off mileage as the stock fuel sender was so unreliable. Tomorrow will mount the new fuel sender.
 
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Drilled out the holes on the fuel sender with 5/16” drill bit. One hole I enlarged to 3/8”
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Got all the holes lined up.
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The gauge read full when my tank was about 1/2-3/4 full. Pulled the sender and ran pigtail from wire at tank to front seat. Got a can of diesel and filled it to just about 1/2” below top of sender. Programmed empty at 0 ohms and programmed full at 89 ohms. Put sender back in tank and walaaa!!!
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Sucess!!!
 
Ryder hard at work detailing the inside of the 60.
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The splash guards inside the front wheel wells were gone so it was time to make some new ones.
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Made a cardboard template
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Now ready for making the permanent one.
 
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