Tomorrow I plan on starting final assembly for the motor. I'm tired. Reallllly tired of ordering part at least once a day from either local dealer, partsouq, amayama and I hate to say it wits end. But its getting stupid expensive and I'm tired of waiting for parts to come in. I'm still missing some key parts but I hope to get them all by Monday. I'm missing a lot of wheeling trips because my 80 is down. My buddies and I go one a month. I have a rock crawler to go wheeling still but I feel guilty for wasting a weekend having fun when there's still so much more work to do on the 80. I want to get this buttoned up before Jan and I'm having a hard time at this point making that date. I'm shooting for mid Feb at this point.
Heres what I have left to do
1. Assemble motor
2. Pull tranny, install transgo shift kit and reinstall
3. Bolt on my fresh marlin rebuilt low range tcase (its supposed to have PT but both flanges still spin even after I manually power probed the center lock 4. times). Need to figure out another time.
5. Bolt in motor in bay and bolt tranny and tc
6. Install Aisin hubs and test out Wits End 8mm spacers. If it dont work, I'll need to cut a second groove for the snap rings.
7. Remove slider where exhaust is.
8. Remove muffler (its cracked) I have a good used one to install but the factory flange was cut off because the wrecking yard cut it off to recycle the cats. So I'll need to cut mine off, flare the pipe and reweld to the good use muffler.
9. Install Wits End Turbo housing + Down pipe and blankets
10. Clamp short down pipe with v band
11. Install good used muffler with my cats. Measure distance I need to trim the short down pipe and cut some off. Grind some of the Cerakote off then weld to CAT then change out all ex gaskets.
12. Reinstall slider
13. Reinstall every thing for the engine
14. Reinstall condenser and rad stuff
15. Reinstall lights and grill
16. Reinstall dual batt and wiring
17. Fix my s***ty fuse system with the new SPro system bought. New wiring galore!
18. Reinstall bumper and winch and wiring
19. Figure out what wind shield washer bottle fits
20. Install Delta Vehicle System Shifter Console + Center Console
21. Install PLX module and TRD (original) boost gauge into Delta gauge slots and run wiring.
22. Fill and triple check allllllll fluids. Use high Zinc oil for break in.
23. Pull coil wire and crank to build oil pressure. Pull turbo oil feed and crank to make sure oil is primed. Reattach to turbo to prime.
24. Reattach coil wire and cross your fingers
25. @100 mile brake in engine oil change
26. @500 mile brake in engine, tranny, tcase and power steering fluid change.
27. @ 1k or 3k engine oil change. Depends how up tight I want to be. Not sure at this point if I'm going with my usual Shell Rotella 15w40 or if I'll wait till 7k to 10k miles.
28. 2wd burn out since
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