I had these shifting issues before the fluid change. Just not as often. Good to know this fluid will work since I still have a lot left. Thanks for your feedback.
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I had these shifting issues before the fluid change. Just not as often. Good to know this fluid will work since I still have a lot left. Thanks for your feedback.
Finally got the last of the last done on my full engine rebuild!
All back together and bugs worked out. Went really well all things considered. My first full rebuild of any engine, and fired right up fist try with no missed sensors or leaks! I missed a plug by the ECU for the transmission that cost me a day, but that's it. I'll post up some pics tomorrow. Right now I need to go to bed. Last 4 nights have been really late trying to get it together.
All back together and bugs worked out. Went really well all things considered. My first full rebuild of any engine, and fired right up fist try with no missed sensors or leaks! I missed a plug by the ECU for the transmission that cost me a day, but that's it. I'll post up some pics tomorrow. Right now I need to go to bed. Last 4 nights have been really late trying to get it together.
RFB
97 FZJ80 LIFTED SC DUAL BATTERIES,37s
So let me get this straight NOT using OEM tranny fluid caused transmission not to shift? Can someone please enlighten or at least drop a link. Ive never heard of such a thing.
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Looks like my guess was wrong about the trans fluid. Dealer checked it out and it's the solenoids. I noticed a problem with the solenoids when I purchased the LC a few months ago but it went away. After changing the fluid something happened which brought back the issue.
After digging through the threads I found some useful info and will be ordering the solenoids today to fix it myself.
Arts and crafts project continues - Stage 2 Complete.
RFB
97 FZJ80 LIFTED SC DUAL BATTERIES,37s
Arts and crafts project continues - Stage 2 Complete.
WHATS THE THICKNESS OF THAT STEEL? LOOKS ARE DECEIVING IN PICS
3/16 for the main chunks, 3/8 for the mounting brackets and the tire plate (not shown on computer screen drawing). Got it laser cut from a shop we deal with occasionally at work.
RFB
97 FZJ80 LIFTED SC DUAL BATTERIES,37s
looks great cant wait to see it completed
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Ocho77
SILVER Star
Sweet Glasair!! Are you building it yourself?
Hit some trails at elbe hills and shoot a lil out of my .306
.30-06 or .308?
word
How could you tell where the rounds were hitting in that fog?
Arts and Crafts Stage 3 Begins...
And it turns out I'm not as smart as I thought I was. Apparently cardboard ISN'T an infallible engineering and design tool. Who knew?
Few things I learned today:
1 - Cutting with a cut-off wheel on a circular saw sucks. I was hoping to score the metal to make my bends, and use the circ saw to get a nice straight cut by running along a clamped piece of wood. The thinnest blade for a circ saw has a 1/8" kerf, so the cut sucks and took forever. It's straight though, but a lot of time wasted there. The super thin cut off wheel on a hand grinder works much better for this purpose.
2 - Cardboard isn't perfect. It's floppy, bendy, twists and goes all over. That means that when you make some nice drawings based on your cardboard pieces, they might ACTUALLY NOT BE PERFECT! Go figure.
3 - Since it's not perfect, it doesn't bend exactly how you hoped it would (see below), and pieces don't necessarily line up as closely as you hoped. Looks like all the folds I was hoping to do for the wings will be cut off and massaged into place. Not the end of the world, some of my measurements will just end up being about 1/4" smaller than originally made up. Just a lot more wasted time.
4 - Don't bother with bends and folds in metal unless you REALLY know what you're doing. Drawing up stuff in CAD in 2D to get cut is easy, just make every piece separate and tack 'em together. That would have saved me a HECKUVA lot of time.
5 - Laser and Waterjet cutters have a basically non-existent kerf, unlike most other cutting tools. That means when you draw your shapes, you need to take into account the very minor gap you will want in order to make stuff fit nicely. I have to massage pretty much every one of my holes with a file or die grinder and may end up going crazy.
Disclaimer - I'm an electrician by trade, so this was intended to be a learning process. Tube bumpers are easy, it's just like bending electrical conduit. This is a whole different beast. I think I might start a whole thread just on this process so that other people don't make any of the same dumbass mistakes that I did.
And it turns out I'm not as smart as I thought I was. Apparently cardboard ISN'T an infallible engineering and design tool. Who knew?
Few things I learned today:
1 - Cutting with a cut-off wheel on a circular saw sucks. I was hoping to score the metal to make my bends, and use the circ saw to get a nice straight cut by running along a clamped piece of wood. The thinnest blade for a circ saw has a 1/8" kerf, so the cut sucks and took forever. It's straight though, but a lot of time wasted there. The super thin cut off wheel on a hand grinder works much better for this purpose.
2 - Cardboard isn't perfect. It's floppy, bendy, twists and goes all over. That means that when you make some nice drawings based on your cardboard pieces, they might ACTUALLY NOT BE PERFECT! Go figure.
3 - Since it's not perfect, it doesn't bend exactly how you hoped it would (see below), and pieces don't necessarily line up as closely as you hoped. Looks like all the folds I was hoping to do for the wings will be cut off and massaged into place. Not the end of the world, some of my measurements will just end up being about 1/4" smaller than originally made up. Just a lot more wasted time.
4 - Don't bother with bends and folds in metal unless you REALLY know what you're doing. Drawing up stuff in CAD in 2D to get cut is easy, just make every piece separate and tack 'em together. That would have saved me a HECKUVA lot of time.
5 - Laser and Waterjet cutters have a basically non-existent kerf, unlike most other cutting tools. That means when you draw your shapes, you need to take into account the very minor gap you will want in order to make stuff fit nicely. I have to massage pretty much every one of my holes with a file or die grinder and may end up going crazy.
Disclaimer - I'm an electrician by trade, so this was intended to be a learning process. Tube bumpers are easy, it's just like bending electrical conduit. This is a whole different beast. I think I might start a whole thread just on this process so that other people don't make any of the same dumbass mistakes that I did.
New solenoids coming soon.
Well it's friday, and that starts the weekend so far I pulled and F-350 out of a ditch, these guy's where doing some road sign improvement, and found out how soft the shoulder is, hooked them up pulled them out, it was funny this guy pulled up in another truck and said does that, thing have enough power, the kid said it's got a Cummins 6bt 
Don't forget a new gasket for the pickup screen.
I sat in the drive thru and made the 30,000th post on this thread.
If you are getting a new screen you should be set. The screen does not normally need to be replaced since it is metal as opposed to paper. I figured you intended to re-use it.
