"the gold one" update thread matts old rig

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Stock jack or bottle jack will work. X2 on the block of wood. If replacing the broken mount with another stock type mount the passenger side mount will need to be loosened to allow the motor to be lifted high enough to install the broken d-side mount.
 
Cool. Thanks for the link.

I discovered another issue at lunch. I put the radio in it, and went to plug the cig lighter in, no work. Checked the fuse, it was fine. Checked fuses on radio power cord and in cig lighter adapter, all fine. Got out the multi meter, plugged adapter in, checked terminals. Nada. Took adapter out, put test leads in cig lighter socket, 12v.

Removed wires from adapter, and plugged in, tested bare terminals on the adapter while plugged in, 12v. Put wires on terminals, tested terminals, nothing. It's like as soon as there's ANY load, it cuts power.

Pulled up next to the 100, strung cables over, plugged into hundo's cig lighter, worked.

This is a real head scratcher. Any thoughts?

I'll add, I did a search, looks like there's a fusible link on the back of the cig lighter outlet, but if that was blown I'd figure I'd get no volts regardless of things being plugged in or not.

Long term solution, I'm mounting the blue sea block next to the passenger seat, but this really has me wondering what's up.
 
bhmmapping said:
There is some type of fusible washer on the back of the lighter socket. Once I hard wired the inverter I just used that for everything.
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Yeah, the head scratcher is that there's voltage sometimes and not others. I'd think if that was cooked it'd be no voltage any time???

Dunno though. Just incentive to get the hard line to the batt pulled.
 
Damn... motorhome isn't THAT much taller.
 
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Gold truck no longer "Drive You"... The 35" BFG AT's are on and it handles AMAZING! And Gerald Cornelous (J) hooked me up with an alignment when he mounted the tires!
I HIGHLY recommend Carl's Car Care next time you want work done! They're just over the Summit hill in Cahaba Heights. Very easy to get to.

The 35's are too small for the H42 though... so I will be after a set of 37's in a few months on my FZJ wheels.

On another note, the driver side motor mount is broken bigger than crap. And it torques every shift. I'll be fixing it before I wheel it this weekend. Can't wait to see how this thing feels after that's tied down! This beast is AWESOME!
 
Driver side motor mount now fixed. pulled the studs (hardest part), drilled open the holes a little... then a grade 10 bolt through it.
Now, when the engine torques... it pulls the entire truck! It's GLORIOUS!
All previous owners now need to drive goldpig.
 
Land Speeder said:
Driver side motor mount now fixed. pulled the studs (hardest part), drilled open the holes a little... then a grade 10 bolt through it.
Now, when the engine torques... it pulls the entire truck! It's GLORIOUS!
All previous owners now need to drive goldpig.
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Roh tahde.
 
GoldMember instantly played broke for me. Set out this morning, and the first small rock, and i mean SMALL. A guy watching yells, "your front driver ain't pullin!". huh. It ain't... must be a broke birf... then I remember, those damned hubs. Cool, I got a set of thin flanges (if these is the short birfs, and they were). Put flange on the driver side. It starts pulling again! Yeah!.... No!.... won't stay in 4WD... Wait, Now the shifter into H is just loose forward and backward... I was 10 minutes and NO wheeling outta camp... DANG!
Talk to Matt, he enlightens me. Only problem, apparently what happened to him in the shop has happened to me at camp. The dowel has dropped into the xfer case. And we tried EVERYTHING. Including welding to it to get it back out... No dice.

Matt has another split case I will try getting from him and I might try robbing parts from it or just using it...
Either way, I gotta have a shop throw it under there since I can't wrench at the RV park.... UGH.
Oh yeah... and find a new hub... But not before I somehow get this thing flat-towed back home.
unsuccessful first outing. But we still having fun!
 
You're welcome to wrench at my place if y'ont to.
 
xodeuce said:
You're welcome to wrench at my place if y'ont to.
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Thanks. But Gilbert Automotive will prolly do the work. They'd rather do fab, but are willing to tackle this as well. They got toyotas too so....
But when needing something fab'd and you have no other place to go, I'd holler at them. BEST welds I've ever seen! Not lying.
 
BamaPaul said:
Plus I've dropped that pin down about half way in mine and worked for about an hour to get it out. Of course it was on the bench at that time and not under the truck
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We did errythang, including tac-welding a screw driver to it and pulled and turned while I tried pressing the clutch and changing gears... it eventually broke off the tip of the dowel.
see my FB pic, the lastest.
 
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