TWT -- The Wrenching Thread (24 Viewers)

[fourtrax]

Pretty sure that bushing can be pushed forward a little bit so your alternator will fit down in.

 

[pkniland]

Back in business

 

[S4Cruiser]

I’ve been chipping away at reassembling the driveline for my yellow truck after work the past week. The trans and tcase are close to done...just need a couple seals for the trans top cover.

Also spent a good portion of the day painting small parts...which doing so in the cold weather is challenging.

 

[weejub]

Weak-sauce wrenching, but got the charcoal canister swapped for the AC Delco. My battery was at 2.7v when I checked it yesterday. One of Daughter's friends left the LX door open. Can't see that taking the battery down that low, but . . anyhoo - good excuse to pull it out, charge it in the shop, and swap the canister.

Also got the old roof rack off the Taco topper and ready for the new rack:

 

[forrest5000]

not really wrenching, but attended the @roadstr6 detailing class for dummies.

 

[lt1fire]

Rally car done/good enough to vacate the garage. Last vacuum leak found and leaky PS fixed. Garage now belongs to the cruiser for front suspension repair. Then slap the 35s on and up for sale it goes.

 

[ROBsSON]

After a great breakfast and getting some motivation after seeing everyone at the Saxapahaw General Store got down for some real work on a great day.

Got everything off the head and head pulled peeping the block while the paint drys on the new head that’s been patiently waiting to go in since the trip last December to the machine shop.

 

[fj40z]

After a great breakfast and getting some motivation after seeing everyone at the Saxapahaw General Store got down for some real work on a great day.

Got everything off the head and head pulled peeping the block while the paint drys on the new head that’s been patiently waiting to go in since the trip last December to the machine shop.



View attachment 1895255 View attachment 1895256 View attachment 1895257 View attachment 1895258

Dang man you weren’t kidding!!

 

[ROBsSON]

@fj40z Yeah man I was on a roll and then slowed down some when getting the gasket off the block brought the kids out but they had a blast messing with it and asked if we could do it tomorrow so that’s a win.

New head is prepped and I almost forgot to put the new seals in so that’ll be done tonight. (Wife doesn’t know it’ll happen inside yet....sorry hun). Everything else will hopefully be finnished up tomorrow.

Laughed with Stephen about the gold adding 20 horsepower and I thought what makes it better... tiger stripes... especially crappy ones.

 

[ROBsSON]

All done! Everything went together great all up until I started the motor forgot I was down a gallon of coolant..... luckily I happen to go check the temp and it was hot but not to hot cut it off and let it cool down added coolant and it ran like a champ temp never came back up I already ordered a test kit so I can try it after a tank of gas and see if I might have screwed up worse than I though.

Gonna be optimistic for now though!

Whatcha know bout that bling homie

 

[S4Cruiser]

Installed my Coolerman main harness and chassis harness this AM and started adding terminals (had him make it without terminals to save some dough). Crazy how freaking perfect the harness lays and breaks off through body pass through, etc. Super professional stuff that Mark puts out!

Also ‘fabbed’ (term used very loosely!) a bracket for the Geo Metro booster. I ended up using square tube vs round for the spacer...firstly b/c it was all I had on hand...but it ended up working perfect. I mounted the spacer 45* off compare to vertical and it allowed me to easily get a socket on both the inside bolts to the firewall and the booster nuts. Pictures explain it better...

Rib clearance is .5 **** hair...almost too close. I’ll use some bath tub underlayment as a gasket on both ends and that will give me another 1/8” spacing.

Also got new rimz and tires last week! 235/85r16

 

[weejub]

All done! Everything went together great all up until I started the motor forgot I was down a gallon of coolant..... luckily I happen to go check the temp and it was hot but not to hot cut it off and let it cool down added coolant and it ran like a champ temp never came back up I already ordered a test kit so I can try it after a tank of gas and see if I might have screwed up worse than I though.

Gonna be optimistic for now though!

View attachment 1896488

Whatcha know bout that bling homie
View attachment 1896489 View attachment 1896490

Awesome! bling bling!

 

[ROBsSON]

Awesome! bling bling!

I’ve always been told Toyota parts are worth there weight I’m gold, so it’s basically the same as a gold brick right?

 

[fj40z]

8 years and 2 80’s later I finally installed a set of sway bar drop blocks I ordered from Slee. I forgot about these and found them in the basement a couple weeks ago. All hail King Getaroundtoit!!

 

[roadstr6]

Bucky has gotten some love this weekend. New shoes, finished mounting the DS front fender and patched a spot on the driver door.

 

[S4Cruiser]

Reposting from my build thread...

Plugging away at wiring...almost done with the cowl harness, just need to tidy up a couple bits here and there. Cleaned up the instrument cluster and had to swap in another amp meter from a spare cluster I had.

The glass pieces cleaned up great with some McGuire’s compound and polish. Also redid/made the cluster harness...didn’t have the exact wire color combos on hand so made notes for future reference.

 

[S4Cruiser]

Bent and flared the engine bay portion of the rear brake lines. Went ahead and did this one now before mounting the engine so I wouldn’t have to work around it.

Next up is to assemble the bottom end of the block!

 

[JohnVee]

All I did today was hear a strange new noise and make that inner gamble with myself that it’ll go away on its own.

Oh, and I sat in the 80, on the phone, for 20 minutes at Toyota today and watched 7 salesmen struggling to not look like they were bird dogging me while each one edged a little closer to me! “Nope, just here for parts. ‘Cause you can do that with these older ones”. Secretly, I was waiting for one of them to compliment my Jeep or Rover.

Oh,oh!!! For tech content, I DID find my 12mm flexhead gearwrench today! But I honestly didn’t even know it was missing.

 

[DeeRex]

Does anyone know how to change the oil in this thing? Ha. J/k but not really.

Though my own fault, I managed to screw my TCase last month.
Through lots of research and countless texts and calls to @GLTHFJ60 and him coming by a couple of times, we were able to get this beast out from under the truck. Beginning breakdown and full diagnosis this weekend.
Had to cut my exhaust off (custom routed) to get room to back off from the transmission.
While I’m in there, I realized I was leaking diff oil from the front drive shaft so that came off.
I’ll also be doing my Driver side axle rebuild at the same time.
Been a heck of a month, since this is my DD. I’m fortunate the the and I work together (and she actually likes me).
I managed to break off one of the six bolts (the lower of the two that bolt through the transmission from the front). But the other 5 came out mostly unscathed. Had to use head and Kroil on everything else.
Ran the gamut of emotions over the last few weeks. I was ready to tow it somewhere last week. Gave it one more shot and managed to get the rest of the bolts removed, but still couldn’t get it separated. With Johnny’s help, and some massive pry bars, it came lose and were able to get it out from under the truck.
Will post up more after the weekend.

 

[weejub]

All I did today was hear a strange new noise and make that inner gamble with myself that it’ll go away on its own.

Oh, and I sat in the 80, on the phone, for 20 minutes at Toyota today and watched 7 salesmen struggling to not look like they were bird dogging me while each one edged a little closer to me! “Nope, just here for parts. ‘Cause you can do that with these older ones”. Secretly, I was waiting for one of them to compliment my Jeep or Rover.

Oh,oh!!! For tech content, I DID find my 12mm flexhead gearwrench today! But I honestly didn’t even know it was missing.

Wow - finding an unknown lost socket and thought about future hypothetical wrenching . . . you sir have gone too far!

Edit: Does thinking about other people wrenching while NOT sitting in the truck come next?