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smritte

smritte

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I know we need the rain but, let it rain during the week. I have so many things to do that i cant pull into the garage for.
Pulling rear driveshaft out of cruiser today. Slip yoke has a ton of play in it. Need that replaced. Going to try to do rear brake's and wheel cylinders on motor home (need to pull axles to do that).
Camping season is almost here. Gotta get these things done.

Scott
 
I second this!!! It's mostly nice during the week and then rains on the weekend. I get home to late to do any work, but soon it will be 100 degrees out.
Wanted to try the oil pump cover gasket today but weather isn't cooperating!!
 
Had some "house" issues pop up that needed taking care of (not counting backing my trailer into the gate and breaking the wall). So NOTHING got done on my vehicles. As for the...oh crap I need this and its Sunday, issue. I just had that happen. I discovered my woodruff key slipped out (and vanished) that last time I had the balancer off. Cant get that from the part store on a Sunday.
Still need to send out drive shaft and still need to change wheel cylinder's on Motor home. Those are the pressing issues. I also need to make a few repairs on my off road trailer (before the end of next month) and need to fab a new trans/transfer case mount for my jeep before May. Too many projects..

Just need good weekend weather.
Scott
 
Nice day today @smritte! no excuses...;) Hey @ARB777 did you ever get that crank bolt to snug up? If you need some extra muscle...let me know.
 
Anyone found a place that will rent or has a 3/4" torque wrench for the crank bolt? I dont want to go spend money on something I will only use one time. I think I will be doing the seal next weekend. Hopefully no rain!! Great weekend this week, but I had to work, so no major projects got done on the rig.
Also I found a place that makes some decent roof racks at good prices,,, www.bajavoodoo.com. Anyone heard of them or bought any of their products??
 
Motor007 said:
Anyone found a place that will rent or has a 3/4" torque wrench for the crank bolt? I dont want to go spend money on something I will only use one time. I think I will be doing the seal next weekend. Hopefully no rain!! Great weekend this week, but I had to work, so no major projects got done on the rig.
Also I found a place that makes some decent roof racks at good prices,,, www.bajavoodoo.com. Anyone heard of them or bought any of their products??
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Autozone actually has a rental wrench that goes to 300#. United rentals has 3/4 impacts and compressors for really reasonable rental prices.
 
Baja Voodoo looks like an off road race team that opened up their hobby into a business. That's how most of the "offroad" fab shops get started. They also carry a selection of big name products as well as their own custom. Looks like they have been around for a bit so that's encouraging. In the few minuets I spent looking at their site, I only say a few "Land Cruiser" items and those were made by Garvin Industries for the FJ Cruiser. That doesn't mean they cant make one custom for you. The Garvin rack's looked to be $700 to 1k for a full length roof rack Garvin Industries Wilderness Racks.
The biggest issue I've found with racks is how they mount. I ended up buying a PrinSu rack. I ran a cost on parts and I could have built it for about 300 cheaper. A few people did a group buy and I couldn't compete with the price.

@ewillis. Got a bunch done yesterday. WOOT. Still need to work on things today but, of course, looking out side the ground is wet. Sigh.

Scott
 
smritte said:
Baja Voodoo looks like an off road race team that opened up their hobby into a business. That's how most of the "offroad" fab shops get started. They also carry a selection of big name products as well as their own custom. Looks like they have been around for a bit so that's encouraging. In the few minuets I spent looking at their site, I only say a few "Land Cruiser" items and those were made by Garvin Industries for the FJ Cruiser. That doesn't mean they cant make one custom for you. The Garvin rack's looked to be $700 to 1k for a full length roof rack Garvin Industries Wilderness Racks.
The biggest issue I've found with racks is how they mount. I ended up buying a PrinSu rack. I ran a cost on parts and I could have built it for about 300 cheaper. A few people did a group buy and I couldn't compete with the price.

@ewillis. Got a bunch done yesterday. WOOT. Still need to work on things today but, of course, looking out side the ground is wet. Sigh.

Scott
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Great info thank you, I might just go the "build it myself" route, I can do that way cheaper
 
So decided to tackle the front main seal and oil pump cover gasket this morning being my little one was sick and I was home. Pretty straight forward until i got to the last screw on the oil pump cover. My brand new Kobalt impact screwdriver kit seemed to be doing the job just fine, until the bit broke off in the last screw!! I got it out, only to find the tip of it broke off inside the screw head,,, so I replaced the others with new hardware and buttoned it up and let it be. Got the new crank seal in no problem, started tightening it down, got it to click at 300ftlbs and figured one last good pull then i will snug it with the breaker bar, and snap, broke the end off of my autozone rental! So all in all looks like i just bought a $100 broken torque wrench from freaking autozone.
New belts and a new speedo sensor o-ring and I called it a day! Running great, now no noisy belts on start-up!
 
Good to hear everything worked when you were finished. Sucks about the torque wrench.
I on the other hand found a ton of metal shavings in the passenger side axle housing while doing the brakes on my motor home this weekend. Draining the fluid tomorrow and hoping it's not a carrier bearing or gear set. If im lucky it will be an outer bearing. I have a Death Valley trip in a few weeks. Need to get cruiser ready and don't have the time to be screwing around with my tow rig.....Need more time.
now if i can just get my nerf bars made................

Scott
 
Thanks!!!!

Man I hope it's just a bearing and nothing to do with the gears or carrier bearing, that would suck big time!!!
Hope it's simple easy and cheap fix!!!
Good luck!!
 
I never thought about going to autozone for the torque wrench although I always loan tools from them. Wish Ive known this before I bought my 3/4 breaker and 30mm socket. I envy your progress @Motor007. I hope we could all get together once we get our rigs in shape.
 
Drained diff fluid from motor home yesterday and no metal.....yay. Looks like passenger wheel bearing. Picking them up today at NAPA and the weather forecast says...Rain. sigh Still haven't pulled driveshaft from Land Cruiser. Being positive, It will get done.

@ARB777, I was thinking this same thing. We could actually go out for pizza or something.

Scott
 
Thanks @ARB777!!!!!!
I have been working a lot so last few weeks I have only had one day off and last thing I wanted to do was work on the rig, and it seemed to rain every time I could work on it!!

I ordered a distributor o-ring, so that along with my oil pan are the last two weeps that need taken care of! Then I can focus on a front bumper and roof rack.

And @smritte that is great news!!! Simple, easy and mostly, rather cheap to fix!!!!


@ARB777 and @smritte,,, Pizza sounds good to me!!!!!
 
Got the motor home done on Saturday... :)
Sunday the Cruiser got my attention. Finally got around to wiring my winch so I can control it from the cab as well as the remote. Well, the OCD kicked in. I got the winch modded, the wiring ran to my secondary fuse/relay block, connector's on the winch end and when I pulled up the fuse box, I decided to add a few connectors so if I need to, the whole thing unplugs.
Not a problem. Go to the connector box and I'm out of the wire seals that make the plugs water proof. Quick trip to the computer and $100 later I have $5.00 worth of seals and a bunch of stuff I convinced myself I need. Hey its free shipping if you order $99 or more. I'm sure I saved money on shipping. o_O
Cruiser went back together half done till next week. I did accomplish something. The hood insulator was starting to sag so I re-drilled the mounts and now the insulator looks like it should.

Scott
 
Nice work!!!!! Especially with the mercury around 90. Free shipping is always good and justifies the savings! It's like when the wife says "I got it on sale."
All I got done today and yesterday was yard work :-( And fixing my pool sweep.
Tomorrow I want to do the distrubutor o-ring to do and I wanted to work on the rear speakers and..and....and...and.... ha! Always something to do!
 
Yea...always something.
I need to get my butt in gear. I'm going to death valley with some guy's in 3 weeks. Need to make sure everything's good on cruiser and trailer. Still haven't pulled my rear driveshaft to have the spline replaced. sigh.

Scott
 
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