The Resurection of 'The Beast'

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Transmission blew up coming back from the spring over. Left me stranded near 81 in Virginia. Lance called a buddy of his nearby, real good guy named Keith Whitlock. He happened to have a newly rebuilt transmission and transfer case in his 40 that he was willing to part with but only as a set. He trailered us to his shop and we used his tools to remove both my transmission and transfer case and his, then bolted his setup into the 55. Swept up and got back on the road.

Cruiser people are awesome.

Keith is the reason you have 2L.

TJK
 
Look at that Piggie flex! :bounce: Thanks BMThiker for the pic!
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That truck is an impressive wheeler. It easily conquered some surprising obstacles for me, especially with the rear locked. I remember in Todd's description when he was selling it that he said "it wheels like the devil", and that's pretty accurate.

Doesn't sound good about the front crank bearing. :eek:

The noise I had was only on deceleration in 4WD. Yeah it was a vibration kind of noise, not a grinding noise. I suspected the driveshaft or diff but never figured it out, and then it just stopped making noise...
 
yooper said:
That truck is an impressive wheeler. It easily conquered some surprising obstacles for me, especially with the rear locked. I remember in Todd's description when he was selling it that he said "it wheels like the devil", and that's pretty accurate.

Doesn't sound good about the front crank bearing. :eek:

The noise I had was only on deceleration in 4WD. Yeah it was a vibration kind of noise, not a grinding noise. I suspected the driveshaft or diff but never figured it out, and then it just stopped making noise...
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You mean this old thread? http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=187311

I'm not excited about the front crank bearing...someone else will have to fix that.

4wd vibration happened even at times under power - I hope to look more into it this week or weekend - too busy right now.

:cheers:
 
Boy, a lot has happened since then. I had that rotator cuff surgery scheduled to happen right after I got back from Haiti. Busted a chunk off my spine while in Haiti, got my shoulder fixed and spiraled into years of misdiagnosis and severe pain. Glad to have that behind me!

TJK
 
Kaderabek said:
Boy, a lot has happened since then. I had that rotator cuff surgery scheduled to happen right after I got back from Haiti. Busted a chunk off my spine while in Haiti, got my shoulder fixed and spiraled into years of misdiagnosis and severe pain. Glad to have that behind me!

TJK
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:eek: Good God Man! I've been busted up before but that doesn't sound like fun. I assume you like the posh ride of an 80 or Taco now compared to the Piggie??? :grinpimp:
 
It has occurred to me many times that while my shoulder ended my days with the 55, my back would have punctuated it even further. But yeah, my Tacoma (and my 80 before that) are much more comfortable. But nowhere near as cool.

TJK
 
One of my favorite things about that 55 is that it led to my friendship with Casey Campbell (I already knew Sean). Casey's a great guy, one of those soft spoken individuals who say something to you and only later does the wisdom of it register. Very bright and kind guy. And probably regrets the day he met me because I conned him into becoming TLCA Treasurer. :mad:

About midway through the time frame of that thread I got a call or an email, can't remember which. Some guy asking about the 55. Said he wanted it and then I never heard from him again. Someone on the 55 list asked me how the sale was going and I reported this and concluded with the remark, "I guess he forgot to run the purchase by his better half before he said he wanted it." An hour or so later Casey drifted out of lurk mode to say no, he had run it by his wife (who is a complete sweetheart) and that he was just thinking things over. In his quiet way, which I would learn later is the Casey way. Anyway, we got together on it a few days later and off to Iowa it went. I've valued Casey as a friend and mentor ever since.

Sniff, sniff.... :rolleyes:

TJK
 
My Piggie's all toe' up!

Well I think I found the source of my knock - or shall I say DanKunz and Trollhole found it. My front crankshaft pulley is wobblin' all around. Today I pulled my grill, drained and pulled my radiator, pulled my belts and was able to wiggle the pulley a solid 1mm to maybe 2 mm with my fingers. Dats not good son!

Trollhole and Hard40 have the tools I need to pull the pulley and I'm hoping that the problem is isolated to my pulley and does not extend to my crankshaft.

Also pulled my winch motor today and it was frozen solid. With liberal amounts of electric cleaner (something I found at Advance) and some wrenching I was able to get th motor freed up and it moved pretty freely now by hand. I'm cleaning it one more time and going to let it completely dry before I lube it up with dome di-grease tomorrow. Hopefully with that it will fire right up. I can hear the solenoids clicking in both directions but the motor's not moving. All connections I can see look OK.
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yooper said:
I wonder if the crooked P/S belt angle messed up that crank pulley...
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Might have... I have a new IPOR PS bracket sourced. I'm interested to see what the crankshaft looks like. I hope the problem is in the pulley and not the crankshaft. I did see that a corner of a fan blade was cracked. I'll check that out tomorrow and see if it needs replaced. Engine cools just fine though.

Also - might not have posted up a link to pics from the last run.

https://forum.ih8mud.com/showthread.php?t=185187

:cheers:
 
n2666s said:
looking sweet Steve..........awsome thread!; did you solve your roof problem??

Lou
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Still need to properly address the roof rust but that is on hold for now. I might just end up cutting the rust out and welding in new metal. I've ripped my headliner out already so I'm one step closer.
 
So you can move the pulley, by hand...1 to 2 mm in the vertical axis while the engine is off?

Sounds like the pulley is hosed, not the crank...almost like the PS tension wallowed it out.
 
Just took another look at her and I think you nailed it Dan. That pulley is L-O-O-S-E. Your big-sis is sending me an IPOR PS bracket and Trollhole via Hard40 is getting a socket and pulley puller to me tomorrow to gank that pulley off. Hopefully realigning the PS pump and a new pulley will fix everything.

Oh, and I was wigglin' it with the belts off...wouldn't move easily by hand w/ belts on.

Now time for a :beer:.
 
Steve, the one close to Birmingham is still sitting with a decent roof; if you get down this way we can do some cutting; then some barbecue and:beer::D and a place to sack out if you can stand all our yunguns climbing on you and questioning you to death:eek:

Lou
 
Thanks Lou - when things calm down here I might take you up on it...will have to see.

Got my winch working yesterday. Only took three cleanings and a slathering of di-grease. Put everything back together and the motor was spinning but the spool wasn't. Called DanKunz and he said "I think I remember a 'klunk' sound when we took the motor off." :doh: Then I remembered the 'klunk.' Broke into the gears and the clutch gear had fallen out of place. Put it back and she fired right up.

I did have to break some sort of what appeared to be a silicone gasket to get into the winch gears. For right now I just put everything back together without a new gasket. Will RTV work? Also need to do some research into what type of oil the winch uses...

Also drained my oil and hit the oil pan bolts w/ PB Blaster. The oil pan is only leaking from the passenger side. I'm going to look closer and make sure oil isn't leaking from above the oil pan gasket...either way couldn't hurt to replace it since I've got a new gasket.

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Pulled the crank pulley last night. Put a large socket on, tied a breaker bar to the frame and hit the starter a few times and the nut came right off. The pulley, even though you could wiggle it with your fingers, took a puller to force it off. After I pulled it off a bit it was solid again - no wiggling. I didn't have time to examine it well to look for what was causing the problem - hope to do that tonight.
 
If it is only leaking PS I would also look to see if it isn't coming from the oil cooler just up from the side of the pan. Also, loose or non-uniformly tightened bolts can cause the leaks...

Just low hanging fruit before you start digging into harder stuff :)
 
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