Quitter.
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Quitter.
I’d like to retire. Still got a 4Runner, Tundra and a LC. Looking for a new one. The 08 is going up for sale.
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About this time, my last paycheck was running out and I was approaching the time I would normally automatically receive a direct deposit. Things started to get real.
If I was going to actually do this more than once or twice, I would need to form an actual business.
So the next few weeks were lost to navigating the red tape of federal, state, and local bureaucracy involved with starting a business.
Holy &@$#. This is overwhelming. My head was spinning.
Two weeks has now turned into two months, and all I’ve got is a broken throttle cable to show for it.
If I was going to actually do this more than once or twice, I would need to form an actual business.
So the next few weeks were lost to navigating the red tape of federal, state, and local bureaucracy involved with starting a business.
Holy &@$#. This is overwhelming. My head was spinning.
Two weeks has now turned into two months, and all I’ve got is a broken throttle cable to show for it.
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I promise there’s a build thread here somewhere, but all of this is baked into the cake.
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Sometime after our initial discussions, the scope started expanding beyond just the AFI & rear discs.
The engine was leaking all of its fluids, so it would be resealed with new gaskets. Since it would all have to come apart, we might as well replace the water pump and tstat. If we’re in that far, might as well put on new hoses & belts and get the radiator checked out.
When the truck arrived, even more got added to the list.
The snowball effect was in full effect.
The engine was leaking all of its fluids, so it would be resealed with new gaskets. Since it would all have to come apart, we might as well replace the water pump and tstat. If we’re in that far, might as well put on new hoses & belts and get the radiator checked out.
When the truck arrived, even more got added to the list.
The snowball effect was in full effect.
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I finally got the garage 75% done and all the rotten wood & build trash hauled off.
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Then, FINALLY, my slow ass started pulling apart JTU’s truck, bagging and tagging everything like it was a crime scene. The more I pulled off, the more it started looking like an actual crime scene.
I guess when 10,000 miles we’re all on a farm that’s how it got so hammered. Hard to believe but 48 years is 48 years.
It actually never worked on the farm, it was just parked there in the shop after my grandfather got too old to hunt. In 1992 when my GF died it then went to one of our warehouses in town where it sat until early 2000s. My GF used it as a tow vehicle to pull his camper to our cabin at our hunting club north of Vicksburg, that’s where it accumulated most of its miles.
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First off, I took the radiator and alternator to their respective shops to have checked out. The new/remanned alternators looked nothing like the original, so it was worth fixing.
I cleaned & painted the fan & pulley, and the armature shop gave the alternator the 2 Buckets treatment after they went through it.
Holy cow, it came out like new.
It went from this:
To this:
This one small part threw a wrench into the gears and set the new standard on how things should look. There’s no way I could just bolt that back to the engine.
I cleaned & painted the fan & pulley, and the armature shop gave the alternator the 2 Buckets treatment after they went through it.
Holy cow, it came out like new.
It went from this:
To this:
This one small part threw a wrench into the gears and set the new standard on how things should look. There’s no way I could just bolt that back to the engine.
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The radiator didn’t fare so well. After it came out of the hot tank, it sounded like it was full of gravel. The core was rotten and falling apart.
I flushed out the block and had brown water pouring out for a good ten minutes.
So, a call to beno got a shiny new radiator headed this way to park next to the mountain of parts he had already sent JTU.
I flushed out the block and had brown water pouring out for a good ten minutes.
So, a call to beno got a shiny new radiator headed this way to park next to the mountain of parts he had already sent JTU.
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Pulling the pieces back exposed some rusty spots. The battery tray had fully disintegrated. The pedestal was solid but had a layer of rust. JTU had a new stainless battery tray and there was no way they could be mated like that.
For the fun of it, I out together a quick electrolysis rig and let it run for a day. It completely stripped off all the paint and rust. Nothing left but clean metal.
For the fun of it, I out together a quick electrolysis rig and let it run for a day. It completely stripped off all the paint and rust. Nothing left but clean metal.
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One of the exhaust flange bolts was seized/crossthreaded/rusted and snapped off. I tried to weld a nut to it with no luck. It snapped right off too.
I couldn’t get the bolts connecting the intake & exhaust out either, so I took it to the machine shop and let them work their magic.
I couldn’t get the bolts connecting the intake & exhaust out either, so I took it to the machine shop and let them work their magic.
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It came back blasted clean enough to eat off of.
With fresh timeserts...
And nice plugs for the holes left by the broken flapper.
With fresh timeserts...
And nice plugs for the holes left by the broken flapper.
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Don’t let the not stay home mom see that $hit in the oven!
Great stuff......
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This crazy proportioning valve (I think) and the brake line spaghetti with Home Depot fittings was bothering me.
He already had a GM front disc and booster conversion, with a newish (dual disc?) master cylinder. Since we were putting rear discs on, I didn’t see any reason to keep that thing on there.
The rusty booster didn’t match the shiny MC, so I cleaned it up and painted it before tidying up the brake lines. I didn’t want to replace all of them (they were already replaced at some point), so I found convenient fittings to draw the line and added some custom kinks to connect the dots.
He already had a GM front disc and booster conversion, with a newish (dual disc?) master cylinder. Since we were putting rear discs on, I didn’t see any reason to keep that thing on there.
The rusty booster didn’t match the shiny MC, so I cleaned it up and painted it before tidying up the brake lines. I didn’t want to replace all of them (they were already replaced at some point), so I found convenient fittings to draw the line and added some custom kinks to connect the dots.
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I set up my GoPro for him on Timelapse and went to edit it for him for his webpage and he didn’t move for 6 hours so we bagged the idea.