What Did You Do with Your 80 This Weekend? (44 Viewers)
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I share none of your worries, as my wife drives the 80 all the time.
She just allows me to work on it.
NLXTACY
Wits' End
I don't think you need that many service loops
I got 6' then. PB has no fuel filters that I need. Off to Napa, or... Autozone
This is what it looks like now.
Dropped the tranny pan since the gasket was leaking pretty bad, I scraped about 5lb of dirty oily sand. 5mpg coming up!
bloc
SILVER Star
They are definitely not standard. 24mm on mine.
Even if the bushings aren't limiting downtravel they are binding more than they would which increases chances of tearing.
I destroyed this hole today....
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What happened?!!I destroyed this hole today....
Canada happened, and I made it unhappen, haha. Lots of salt on the roads up here. Previous owner also used this cruiser to tow a boat for years to salt water, so I'm assuming that didnt help things like this
Placed my new steelies on some boxes to "Mock them up", they'll be wrapped in Toyo MT 255/85R16 shortly 
Paint is Valspar Massey Ferguson Gray, tractor heavy-duty paint.
Paint is Valspar Massey Ferguson Gray, tractor heavy-duty paint.
I very much like the steelies.
bloc
SILVER Star
Damn. Now that you mention it I may be getting confused. It might be 27.
Def not standard though.. I don't even have standard sockets and did have everything I needed for an axle swap. 22/24/27 seem to ring a beli. And those rear bolts on the radius arms are VERY tight. Thought I was going to break my 1/2" breaker. It did flex enough that I only had room to tighten it 1/12th turn at a time.
The 24mm fits.
There is no way in hell I can loosen that up while the car is not jacked up. I cannot turn that breaker bar at all.
I'll go to HF tomorrow to get a 15/16" impact socket (which pretty close in size to a 24mm - which seems to be just a tiny bit loose on that nut) and try again.
15/16" is just a smidget smaller in size than a 24mm socket. I think it would be a perfect fit. I'll find out tomorrow.
I am slowly becoming a fan of impact guns.
My cheap HF plug in impact gun proved to be invaluable to me lately. We'll see if it can successfully tackle this control arm job.
bloc
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Double check that the other side (the nut) is the same size.
The 3/4" breaker I bought for the crank pulley flexed way less and let me get enough force on the thing. But yes, it was rough.
The 3/4" breaker I bought for the crank pulley flexed way less and let me get enough force on the thing. But yes, it was rough.
LS1FJ40
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Speaking of crank pulley. I may be doing my oil pump seal and crank seal tomorrow/Monday. A 1/2" breaker bar isn't strong enough for this correct? I need a 3/4". And I need a big a$$ torque wrench too to get it to the 320 ft lbs of torque or whatever it is. Correct?
You have to take them off when you go wheeling or the trees/bushes will take them off for you.
Yes. Usually people (from what I've seen) used a 3/4" breaker bar.
There is a really cool hack you can do with a cheater bar in order to get a regular torque wrench to tighten up the pulley.
I forgot which thread it is, but the guy measured a cheater pipe and welded a nut at one end in order to multiply the torque necessary to get close to 320.
IIRC the pipe was attached to the motor, then the torque wrench at the end so you can pull on it and get the right torque.
