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Metabo or Bosch for grinders
Had one of them. Look nice. Good if you don't need protection from animals
OK, no worries, order a new one from partsouq (thanks @diby 2000 for the tip), and cut and shut it to the required length with a 90 to relocate the heater hose under the turbo and add the jic fitting I've converted the water feed to, easy enough job. Pulled manifold, swapped heater pipe (thanks to handy slide hammer for old pipe removal, refitted mani and test fit turbo.
Ordered a recoil kit for it, but thanks to the glut of public holidays we are suffering from, I'm not holding my breath about having it here before I go back to work, so the saga will more than likely drag on for another week 
...and clearly I've let you all down.
Had a fun little chain of events yesterday. First off I picked up a new Group31 battery to use an my primary battery. Deka Intimidator 9A31. Heard lots of good feedback on these so giving it a go.
Then the fun happened. On the drive home yesterday I had my window down (even though it was still chilly out) and I started hearing a loud flapping sound like the sound of a plastic grocery bag caught on something under the truck. I figured that's all it was but pulled off the highway just to check. When I stopped I noticed I was leaking fluid badly. Didn't take long to find the problem.
A belt had shredded was the first problem. taking a closer look it turns out that a small rock had been deflected and wedged into the groove of the pulley (total fluke right?) and the rock is what caused the belt to come apart. The best wrapped itself around the fan clutch shaft and was whipping around (flapping noise) and the flailing cut one of the coolant lines on the lower radiator for the heater. The leaking fluid was coolant.
Couple of fortunate things. First off, had I not had my window down I wouldn't have heard it and just kept driving and possibly lost all cooling. Secondly, I had just purchased new belts a couple days ago to go in the parts box for Cruise Moab next week. My son drove to where I was with the new belts and we picked up a new hose. Changing belts in a parking lot is always fun, right? Actually, what could have been much worse ended up a pretty simple fix. Now all new belts and a new hose.
Had a fun little chain of events yesterday. First off I picked up a new Group31 battery to use an my primary battery. Deka Intimidator 9A31. Heard lots of good feedback on these so giving it a go.
Then the fun happened. On the drive home yesterday I had my window down (even though it was still chilly out) and I started hearing a loud flapping sound like the sound of a plastic grocery bag caught on something under the truck. I figured that's all it was but pulled off the highway just to check. When I stopped I noticed I was leaking fluid badly. Didn't take long to find the problem.
A belt had shredded was the first problem. taking a closer look it turns out that a small rock had been deflected and wedged into the groove of the pulley (total fluke right?) and the rock is what caused the belt to come apart. The best wrapped itself around the fan clutch shaft and was whipping around (flapping noise) and the flailing cut one of the coolant lines on the lower radiator for the heater. The leaking fluid was coolant.
Couple of fortunate things. First off, had I not had my window down I wouldn't have heard it and just kept driving and possibly lost all cooling. Secondly, I had just purchased new belts a couple days ago to go in the parts box for Cruise Moab next week. My son drove to where I was with the new belts and we picked up a new hose. Changing belts in a parking lot is always fun, right? Actually, what could have been much worse ended up a pretty simple fix. Now all new belts and a new hose.
Nice battery! With two amplifiers Kicker 1600.1 and Kicker Q1000.5 needs lots of juice! This is what I have been using in last three vehicles with amplifiers. Jump starts cars immediately!!!Had a fun little chain of events yesterday. First off I picked up a new Group31 battery to use an my primary battery. Deka Intimidator 9A31. Heard lots of good feedback on these so giving it a go.
Then the fun happened. On the drive home yesterday I had my window down (even though it was still chilly out) and I started hearing a loud flapping sound like the sound of a plastic grocery bag caught on something under the truck. I figured that's all it was but pulled off the highway just to check. When I stopped I noticed I was leaking fluid badly. Didn't take long to find the problem.
A belt had shredded was the first problem. taking a closer look it turns out that a small rock had been deflected and wedged into the groove of the pulley (total fluke right?) and the rock is what caused the belt to come apart. The best wrapped itself around the fan clutch shaft and was whipping around (flapping noise) and the flailing cut one of the coolant lines on the lower radiator for the heater. The leaking fluid was coolant.
Couple of fortunate things. First off, had I not had my window down I wouldn't have heard it and just kept driving and possibly lost all cooling. Secondly, I had just purchased new belts a couple days ago to go in the parts box for Cruise Moab next week. My son drove to where I was with the new belts and we picked up a new hose. Changing belts in a parking lot is always fun, right? Actually, what could have been much worse ended up a pretty simple fix. Now all new belts and a new hose.
Question for the brain trust:
Would an over-greased driveshaft slip joint cause growling noises? I just had a shop (facepalm) replace all 4 ujoints. Good news, vibration is reduced (not gone), bad news I have a very pronounced growl on coast/decel and occasionally at slack idle or accel. Pretty sure the noise was there before, but definitely louder now. Maybe I can just hear it better without all the u-joint clatter
And on a personal note. I don't know wtf I'm supposed to do. I wanted to do these u-joints myself, but they've been sitting on the shelf for months because I haven't had any time off work, and if I ever get a half day, I'd rather spend it with the family than in the garage. But I paid a very steep price for the convenience of having a shop do this for me. Hard to justify shop labor on a truck this old and worthless
Meh. Not that high. I removed that stone guard on my last 80 and ran without it for more than a decade. This truck has never had one while I've owned it with 50K miles. I highly doubt it will happen again. It could but I doubt it.Really really high when you are missing the rock guard above the stabilizer
Get her on here! The forum needs more female representation, hopefully she will last longer then the other ladies that get on here then disappear after a couple months! I don't want to mention any names....but why you guys scaring away all the lady LC owners??
