TWT -- The Wrenching Thread (19 Viewers)

[rlynch356]

Drive line is on the floor!

MOTOR AND TRANS FREE TO A GOOD HOME. 1984 Mercedes 380 SL

Did it run?

Cooking up a LeMons race car plan (my neighbor buys cars and cuts the cats,
So we’re waiting for the right one for a race car to come along… motors are usually junk on them…

 

[izzyandsue]

Did it run?

Cooking up a LeMons race car plan (my neighbor buys cars and cuts the cats,
So we’re waiting for the right one for a race car to come along… motors are usually junk on them…

Best car we ever ran in lemons was a Kia Rio. It just never quit after many shenanigans including water in the fuel can

 

[rlynch356]

We’re looking for a manual gearbox right now… but really anything that can run preferably Japanese is the target right now…
These usually get pulled out of back yards and part of some domestic fireworks and stuff… get bought for scrap value, so no titles normally but that’s not an issue. (Title is also on my wish list…)

 

[NCFJ]

Made a pair of lifting beams to work with the lift. Worked out well.

 

[lumbee1]

I got the rear end vibs fixed by replacing the upper control arms and dialing in parallel flanges. The mechanical jack made it easy.

 

[LDowney]

Builds - The "Red Rocket" Troopy

2x You are doing such a great job with your people hauler. Just great. Concerning the issue of air in fuel line: I'd rather suspect a gasket to be the culprit (e.g. fuel filter), rather than an actual pinhole in the line. Other than the rubber pieces in your fuel lines are really porous. This...

forum.ih8mud.com

Check out post # 1653 where he shares a summary of the fire. It looks like a life-time of luck stars were consumed here.
With this happening outside of Boone in your backyard, I thought that there might be interest within this group too.

 

[Comet]

@LDowney I am speechless (that’s a lot for those that know me). Wow, absolute blessings.

 

[NCFJ]

Now sitting 3" lower than stock as measured at the pinch weld under the rocker. Axles are set at 13" center, 26" tire on 17 inch rim. OEM WMS to WMS is roughly 57" (differs front to rea a small amount) I am thinking of going with 56" on the new set up. I might have to do some tubbing.....

 

[LDowney]

@LDowney I am speechless (that’s a lot for those that know me). Wow, absolute blessings.

Please accept my apology if I brought up bad memories here. I did not know that there were similar experiences.

 

[Comet]

Please accept my apology if I brought up bad memories here. I did not know that there were similar experiences.

No worries. My comment was that I am in a sales capacity and could talk to the wall if timing felt right. I am amazed at his rationale thought process to jump into a burning truck (after he himself being on fire) and back it out of the garage.

Yup, have lost both family and close friends to fire but that never played into your thoughtfulness of including the club in a truly harrowing situation. Thank you for sharing this.

 

[NCFJ]

Always fun stripping a few decades of crud off the bottom of a truck. Fair amount of rust along the inside rockers

 

[NCFJ]

Making some real progress on project Babs. I pulled out the laser and got all my reference marks laid out. Dropped the front cradle and shaved all the brackets out of the engine bay and stripped a fair portion.

I have an almost full wiring harness and front cradle with full suspension FREE, Come get it, I am NOT shipping
Chesnee SC 29323

 

[NCFJ]

Max is going to the block! Auction starts today at 2:55 Pacific on BAT

 

[NCFJ]

I've been working on full body supports for the Merc to the table.

 

[40LandCruising]

Finally touched the blue 40, I haven't even started it since I went to Leatherwood, Ky in it in November and it twisted the rear driveshaft.

Sunday I flipped the rear springs for a 4"ish stretch in the rear. And discovered the clutch slave cylinder was completely rusted solid and the water pump is leaking. Guess that's what get for ignoring it for 3 months.

Goal is to replace the pinion seal, build a new rear driveshaft, extend the rear frame to axle brake line, cut the quarters, replace the water pump, replace the clutch slave cylinder, and hopefully reattach the air line for my ARB that got ripped out when the driveshaft went in to orbit.

This all has to get done before I go to Stoney lonesome and Hawk pride March 13th, while simultaneously moving and changing jobs. Seems easy enough....

Current plan is to cut the twisted tube off the yokes on a lathe with a buddy and retube it with whatever I can scrounge up for now. Can't find a driveshaft shop who will build be a shaft and keep cruiser joints. They all wanna go 1310. Which is an issue if I wanna keep the Tcase parking brake from what I've found so far.

I stuck the 35s back on to give my Steering a fighting change of survival before I have the chance to upgrade for the 37s and beadlocks

 

[40LandCruising]

View attachment 3568592View attachment 3568596Finally touched the blue 40, I haven't even started it since I went to Leatherwood, Ky in it in November and it twisted the rear driveshaft.

Sunday I flipped the rear springs for a 4"ish stretch in the rear. And discovered the clutch slave cylinder was completely rusted solid and the water pump is leaking. Guess that's what get for ignoring it for 3 months.

Goal is to replace the pinion seal, build a new rear driveshaft, extend the rear frame to axle brake line, cut the quarters, replace the water pump, replace the clutch slave cylinder, and hopefully reattach the air line for my ARB that got ripped out when the driveshaft went in to orbit.

This all has to get done before I go to Stoney lonesome and Hawk pride March 13th, while simultaneously moving and changing jobs. Seems easy enough....

Current plan is to cut the twisted tube off the yokes on a lathe with a buddy and retube it with whatever I can scrounge up for now. Can't find a driveshaft shop who will build be a shaft and keep cruiser joints. They all wanna go 1310. Which is an issue if I wanna keep the Tcase parking brake from what I've found so far.

I stuck the 35s back on to give my Steering a fighting change of survival before I have the chance to upgrade for the 37s and beadlocks

 

[40LandCruising]

More driveshaft adventures with the Blue 40,

Finally got around to working on building a new rear driveshaft. Of course I waited till the week before my trip, why would anyone ever start earlier.

Got the twisted shaft cut off the yokes, and used a lathe powered by cordless drill to clean them up. And centered the sch40 pipe as best we could. Unfortunately the driveshaft flange cracked when I pressed the busted U joint out so that's the current hold up.

 

[40LandCruising]

 

[Hokie LX]

Rebooted my CV's on the LX yesterday after the driver one puked all of its grease out of the inner boot due to a big tear. They'd been weeping for a few months and I had parts on hand to do the job but wasn't planning on doing it for another couple weeks.

Used McMaster clamps (aka. Pfran clamps)

Also replaced both outer tie rods.

 

[40LandCruising]

Worked on the 40 today, new slave cylinder fixed the seized clutch issue, and did a temporary daisy chain of two factory soft lines in the rear while I wait for my extended stainless line to arrive.

Then I started converting my 8274 from the factory solenoid pacts to a contactor. Unsuccessfully…

Could it have something to do with buying a $28 winch contactor off Amazon? Yes. Does it? Unsure.

Got it all wired up, plugged the controller in, bumped winch out, and it started spooling in and wouldn’t stop. I had to disconnect the battery. Fortunately I’d had enough cable pulled out it didn’t get tight and burn the winch up. Disconnected all the control wires and it still did it when I tried reconnecting the battery. Even once I disconnected the ground cable from the motor(I assume it must be grounded through mounting as well). So I finally removed the contactor entirely and unhooked the winch from power for the time being.
Probably gonna return and buy the Albright for $80

Can’t forget I had to relocate the winch controller plug so I moved it to the dash, was very proud of the little bracket I’d whipped
Up, and forgot the route the wires through the hole before connecting. Oops