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Kept plugging away at my V8 swap. Almost done.
What did you do with your 60 this weekend? (3 Viewers)
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Boss Hog
Cutty say he can’t HANG!!
I found it on ‘Mud and sent it to a decal maker. Should’ve gotten it in brown though! Who else has it? The guy I copied it from in white?
NeverGiveUpYota
Dare me.
CenTXFJ60
SILVER Star
Man...I have that same bumper and just pulled it out of my storage cabin. Decided it’s going on My 60. However I do need to source a good winch
NeverGiveUpYota
Dare me.
Via Facebook I believe he still has it.
CenTXFJ60
SILVER Star
Ha. Jim, that’s some serious finagling with the wet sanding and buffing. I got a bit carried away when I did this a few years ago. Good news is it’s got several knicks and bruises so the concern over the first scratch is long goneThat's way too shiny for a 60
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Got my smog pump in place and all my freshly painted heat and dust sheilds installed. Then I thought "I have all new OEM bushings sitting around... lets swap them in this weekend!" Yeah... just pop a few bushings out, stick some new ones in, torque it down. Yeah. I managed to ensure nobody is gonna steal it out of my driveway for a while. Three days and still stuck on the first hanger pin. I might just have to get an OME kit so I can just cut this old suspension off. Darn.
Installed a trailer wiring kit and the heavy duty battery cable kit from @Fourrunner
Towed the trailer up to Monache Meadows. All went well, sloooow and steady. Until I made one too many sharp turns and mangled the bolt on cargo carrier on the trailer. It road fine up top for the rest of the journey.
Towed the trailer up to Monache Meadows. All went well, sloooow and steady. Until I made one too many sharp turns and mangled the bolt on cargo carrier on the trailer. It road fine up top for the rest of the journey.
Burn them out? Oh wait, you’re in Boulder...
Long over due oil change. Fresh wix filter and almost 8 quarts of delo 400 15w40 oil. Truck seems to run better but might just be placebo effect. Also got a 5 gallon bucket of 80/90 gear old and bucket pump for doing diffs and transmission/transfer case.
nothing terribly exciting or sexy - but i changed my oil this morning...kindof in an frantic emergency. i went to check the oil before heading out on a short trip and it barely registered on the dipstick. total panic...WTF???
I put 3 qts in and got it up to normal...then started pondering where it went / how...since it has never used any oill between 3000 mile changes.
no leaks - no drops on the driveway - clean underneath, clean engine bay...so the truck must have burned it.
so - that leads to a theory - i ran 2 tanks of seafoam through the truck on a long road trip due to hearing detonation under load - on hot days. suspect some carbon build.
sure enough when i went to drain the oil this morning it ran like water...super thin. my theory is that maybe i have some blow by (260,000 miles) and some of the fuel/seafoam mixture made into the pan?
never saw low oil pressure - and I **think** everything is fine...but not seeing much oil on the dipstick sure struck panic in my chest.
I put 3 qts in and got it up to normal...then started pondering where it went / how...since it has never used any oill between 3000 mile changes.
no leaks - no drops on the driveway - clean underneath, clean engine bay...so the truck must have burned it.
so - that leads to a theory - i ran 2 tanks of seafoam through the truck on a long road trip due to hearing detonation under load - on hot days. suspect some carbon build.
sure enough when i went to drain the oil this morning it ran like water...super thin. my theory is that maybe i have some blow by (260,000 miles) and some of the fuel/seafoam mixture made into the pan?
never saw low oil pressure - and I **think** everything is fine...but not seeing much oil on the dipstick sure struck panic in my chest.
600 mile trip to Colorado Bend State Park. No issues and the H55F and new split case is magical in this truck.
302,000 miles and running great.
302,000 miles and running great.
That's what it's gonna come to. I just can't throw down for an OME kit right now. Too many other issues to deal with first. If a "wildfire" starts in Boulder "it wasn't me".
I have used a gear puller to push the pin out when I could not twist or pry it out and I didn't want to burn it out. Set up the gear puller on the inside to push the pin out and may have also applied some twisting an prying from the outside. It worked well.
You could persuade with heat, and try not to start them alight at first...the plumbers torch is handy, and easy to hide if needed!
(My kids use it to take care of black widows and wasp nests in their treehouse!)
Hojack
♠️Project Snowball❄️
Scary Paul. I’ve always been a fan of Marvel Mystery Oil. Sea foam seems like it can do more harm than good.
I've done that. Bent my pullers, mushroomed the head of the threaded punch, and bent the leaf hanger out. Then, with that pressure, I used the vise grips and jack to rotate the pin. It's moved a little bit, but has come to a hault as the gear pullers will not grip anymore because they're bent. Fire, I think.
This will happen tonight. I might even get around to burning the bushings out of my leaf springs!
Did the Magruder Corridor with @406cruisers over the Labor Day weekend. From Darby, MT to Elk City, ID.
