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Worked on my cruiser till about 2:30am last night, that is about a 12hr day working on it. 
Drained tranny & t-case, fluid was clean. I wanted to replace it because I was grinding into 2nd more often then it should and it was getting a bit loud in the tranny. When I drained the gear boxes I noticed the tranny seemed low and the t-case seemed over full. This leads me to believe I have a common problem found on Cruisers. IE, the seal between the tranny & t-case has failed and so my tranny fluid is working it's way into my t-case. Bummer, means spitting the two to fit a new seal and fix the problem.
After I did that I installed new motor mounts. One bolt was seized on the t-case/tranny cross member so it broke. A real bummer because to fix it right means dropping the tranny and drilling out the hole. It has a nut welded on the inside of the frame rail. Four bolts per side of the x-member so I put those back in less one on the busted bolt. Tossed a welded on it to hold it until a later date when I do a chassis swap. Until then I simply do not care.
Next up I cleaned a number of sensors on my engine. TPS (throttle position sensor), MAP and ICA valve sensor. The ICA was probably the dirtiest, it took some time to get it spotless clean. The MAP was the biggest pita and I had to remove the valve cover to get it back in place. I also cleaned and lubed up my air filter. I then cleaned my throttle body until it was sportless. I noticed when I first crawled under the truck this afternoon I had a shock on my RHS in the rear completely disconnected. It has a pin to eye conversion on it and that is where it separated, no wonder it felt odd on that side. I fixed that too and luckily caught it in time before any damage took place. I also packed one of my knuckles with grease via the port on the knuckle housing. Pumped a ton of grease in it and ran out before I was done or got the other side. Reason for doing this is my knuckle balls are a little rusty and shouldn't be which leads me to think I don't have enough grease in the knuckle. So now I need some more grease for the grease gun and will pack them both the rest of the way. That is about all I did besides check some fluids and top off as needed.
When I finished at 2:30am I went to start the truck and fan was contacting my shroud badly. Horrible noise when trying to start the truck. So I simply bent the shroud back using some channel locks for the time being. After three tries bending it I was able to start the truck without contact on the shroud. The problem with this is motor mounts are welded and installed like total crap in the truck. I realize whomever did this years ago was after lining up the t-case output to the diffs but they did a horrible job not only because the mounts have booger wleds but also because there is binding going on between the motor mounts and the x-member mounts. The new motor mounts aligned things differently then the old shot motor mounts. Hence my probs with the shroud. So a new shroud is now on the top of my list, that or I am going to just toss a Taurus fan in it for $200.
Took the truck for a drive after all was said and done. Man it runs killer, very smooth, throttle response is simply sweet. My idle was also boucning around a touch (few hundred rpms) and I had an idle dip coming to s top, that now seems to be gone after on test drive. I think cleaning the sensors made a big difference. Shifts real nice too with the fluid not low in the tranny. Not sure how long it will take though before it is low again and the t-case is to full. For now it rocks.
I got just a few crappy cell phone pictures.
Uhhh ohhh...
Old vs new
Good for me I am on top of checking plus working on my truck. The shock was undamaged but could have got trashed if left like that. The motor mounts while cracked and deformed were not busted in half or had any huge splits in them. So I pretty much got them replaced just in time. Today I am going to replace the fluid in my Ranger gear box, maybe pick up a couple tubes of grease and finish off the knuckles and maybe see what can be done about a shroud. I have a spare shroud from the FJ62 so that is a bonus. Oh yeah and clean the Cruiser plus clean the shop!
Drained tranny & t-case, fluid was clean. I wanted to replace it because I was grinding into 2nd more often then it should and it was getting a bit loud in the tranny. When I drained the gear boxes I noticed the tranny seemed low and the t-case seemed over full. This leads me to believe I have a common problem found on Cruisers. IE, the seal between the tranny & t-case has failed and so my tranny fluid is working it's way into my t-case. Bummer, means spitting the two to fit a new seal and fix the problem.
After I did that I installed new motor mounts. One bolt was seized on the t-case/tranny cross member so it broke. A real bummer because to fix it right means dropping the tranny and drilling out the hole. It has a nut welded on the inside of the frame rail. Four bolts per side of the x-member so I put those back in less one on the busted bolt. Tossed a welded on it to hold it until a later date when I do a chassis swap. Until then I simply do not care.
Next up I cleaned a number of sensors on my engine. TPS (throttle position sensor), MAP and ICA valve sensor. The ICA was probably the dirtiest, it took some time to get it spotless clean. The MAP was the biggest pita and I had to remove the valve cover to get it back in place. I also cleaned and lubed up my air filter. I then cleaned my throttle body until it was sportless. I noticed when I first crawled under the truck this afternoon I had a shock on my RHS in the rear completely disconnected. It has a pin to eye conversion on it and that is where it separated, no wonder it felt odd on that side. I fixed that too and luckily caught it in time before any damage took place. I also packed one of my knuckles with grease via the port on the knuckle housing. Pumped a ton of grease in it and ran out before I was done or got the other side. Reason for doing this is my knuckle balls are a little rusty and shouldn't be which leads me to think I don't have enough grease in the knuckle. So now I need some more grease for the grease gun and will pack them both the rest of the way. That is about all I did besides check some fluids and top off as needed.
When I finished at 2:30am I went to start the truck and fan was contacting my shroud badly. Horrible noise when trying to start the truck. So I simply bent the shroud back using some channel locks for the time being. After three tries bending it I was able to start the truck without contact on the shroud. The problem with this is motor mounts are welded and installed like total crap in the truck. I realize whomever did this years ago was after lining up the t-case output to the diffs but they did a horrible job not only because the mounts have booger wleds but also because there is binding going on between the motor mounts and the x-member mounts. The new motor mounts aligned things differently then the old shot motor mounts. Hence my probs with the shroud. So a new shroud is now on the top of my list, that or I am going to just toss a Taurus fan in it for $200.
Took the truck for a drive after all was said and done. Man it runs killer, very smooth, throttle response is simply sweet. My idle was also boucning around a touch (few hundred rpms) and I had an idle dip coming to s top, that now seems to be gone after on test drive. I think cleaning the sensors made a big difference. Shifts real nice too with the fluid not low in the tranny. Not sure how long it will take though before it is low again and the t-case is to full. For now it rocks.
I got just a few crappy cell phone pictures.
Uhhh ohhh...
Old vs new
Good for me I am on top of checking plus working on my truck. The shock was undamaged but could have got trashed if left like that. The motor mounts while cracked and deformed were not busted in half or had any huge splits in them. So I pretty much got them replaced just in time. Today I am going to replace the fluid in my Ranger gear box, maybe pick up a couple tubes of grease and finish off the knuckles and maybe see what can be done about a shroud. I have a spare shroud from the FJ62 so that is a bonus. Oh yeah and clean the Cruiser plus clean the shop!
