Handsome co-pilot. Very nice 60.
What did you do with your 60 this weekend? (52 Viewers)
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DickM
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What is strapped on top? The curved thing.
That’s a 14” drum mold. I make drums from scratch. I used to have an entire set for doing any size drum shell but I sold them to my business partner last year.
Gretsch
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Outstanding. Looks amazing.
Before I go chasing down electrical gremlins, are both reverse lights supposed to work or is the passenger side a rear fog light? All my other lights work on the passenger side and I know some Euro cars did the rear fog light.
diesellibrarian
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You should definitely have two reverse lights. The harness for the rear lights comes up the driver's side to the rear of the car, and then crosses over to the passenger side just behind your spare tire (if you crawl under the vehicle you can see it). Pull the rear interior trim panel on the driver's side and take a look at the wires leading to the harness connector (located below the washer fluid bag). The wires are very thin and tend to get brittle and break.
If you but amber bulbs in them you could have reverse fog lights.
That makes sense. I'll have to start tracking down where the break is. Thank you!
If it got foggy often here I'd be tempted to try it lol.If you but amber bulbs in them you could have reverse fog lights.
Finally finished up my exhaust. Added a heat shield to my Passenger side cat and some fiberglass heat shield for the frame rail wires and fuel lines. All the starter wires and o2 wires etc were loomed in Insultherm high temp loom when i loomed the harness. Still need to addd heat shielding to the Crossover pipe where it crosses under the Trans pan and under my gas tank. Looking at Vibrants Sheethot heat shields. Says they are good for temps up to 1100 deg F.
Also added a new trans pan with a better drain plug. Jurys still out on this one. The sealing surface for the gasket doesnt look as good as the oem pan, but this one actually drains all of the fluid when you pull the plug
Here is the original crossover pipe that didnt really follow the lines of the trans pan very well and shifted over when i mounted everything up.
Old Crossover pipe
New Crossover pipe made.
Here is the new crossover pipe installed.
Tail section of the exhaust. This was by far the easiest part and went by super quick
Also added a new trans pan with a better drain plug. Jurys still out on this one. The sealing surface for the gasket doesnt look as good as the oem pan, but this one actually drains all of the fluid when you pull the plug
Here is the original crossover pipe that didnt really follow the lines of the trans pan very well and shifted over when i mounted everything up.
Old Crossover pipe
New Crossover pipe made.
Here is the new crossover pipe installed.
Tail section of the exhaust. This was by far the easiest part and went by super quick
Cross member looks neat - was it custom made?Finally finished up my exhaust. Added a heat shield to my Passenger side cat and some fiberglass heat shield for the frame rail wires and fuel lines. All the starter wires and o2 wires etc were loomed in Insultherm high temp loom when i loomed the harness. Still need to addd heat shielding to the Crossover pipe where it crosses under the Trans pan and under my gas tank. Looking at Vibrants Sheethot heat shields. Says they are good for temps up to 1100 deg F.
Also added a new trans pan with a better drain plug. Jurys still out on this one. The sealing surface for the gasket doesnt look as good as the oem pan, but this one actually drains all of the fluid when you pull the plug
Here is the original crossover pipe that didnt really follow the lines of the trans pan very well and shifted over when i mounted everything up.
Old Crossover pipe
New Crossover pipe made.
Here is the new crossover pipe installed.
Tail section of the exhaust. This was by far the easiest part and went by super quick
And how much does the new pan clear the driveshaft by?
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The crossmember is the Advance Adapters crossmember. I like it because it uses the OEM curved fj60 mount. I did drill out the holes and added steel sleeves to beef up the mounting surfaces. Before it was just a hole drilled in the crossmember and looked like it would crush with too much torque on the bolts.
The new pan has a little bit more clearance. Not much but a little bit. The corner of the pan still interferes with my grease zerk on the yoke by the t case output flange but it barely touches. I’m just going to cap the zerk with a flat plug and it will be fine
JayDoc
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Nothing productive like you folks but I did take it out for some car camping:
Did you resolve the vibration issue? With the new drivetrain your TC would have been pushed back from its original position and you would have shortened/lengthened the drive shafts by some. Could this have caused some of the vibration? Did they require any kind of rebalancing?
I got brand new custom driveshafts built. Turns out my vibration and noise was caused by me not including a spacer in my tcase that was supplied in the kit. The instructions are pretty misleading and basically said not to use it if you have a manual t case. But you definitely need it. The input gear ate up my oil slinger and destroyed my case housing. Got a new housing and reassembled it with the spacer and it seems to be doing fine. Still have some gear whine, but I think it’s just old worn gears, because everything else is assembled correctly. Can’t figure out what the high pitched whine is
Funny was just reading elsewhere on mud about that exact same part being missed and causing havoc - glad h you got it sorted!
Yeah man, if I ever do this again I’m steering clear of the advance adapter if there’s other options out there haha
M
Marks here in Australia make another one. Wonder if anyone has the facts on both for a fair comparison.
If it’s the one for the 4l60e or the one for the 4l80e advance just sells the marks one here in the US :/
Are there any other options for GM to Toyota adapters? I've only seen the Advance/Marks for sale in USA, can't recall if some of the swap threads on here were based elsewhere and just using a GM drivetrain
