Drove it 2 hours over the mountain for a special delivery. No turkey tonight, but a safe delivery will be a good trade!
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Drove it 2 hours over the mountain for a special delivery. No turkey tonight, but a safe delivery will be a good trade!
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Congratulations! This will be baby number 6? I come from 6 siblings family and appreciate a large familyDrove it 2 hours over the mountain for a special delivery. No turkey tonight, but a safe delivery will be a good trade!
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Inspirational. My poor 100 has had the spun bearing rings on both spindles since I picked it up 120k miles ago. I seem to need bearing service every 15k miles...maybe I should follow your path!New genuine steering knuckle complete with spindle bearings and seals, new dust seal, new genuine (should’ve got koyo and saved a bit…) wheel bearings, new 555 lower control arm ball joint.
Background: while doing routine bearing maintenance saw signs that bearings on LF whee had spun at some point. Big thanks to @bryson for getting me thinking about replacing everything. Considered used but between shipping and the cost of seals/bearings it didn’t seem like enough price difference to justify a crapshoot. Even with shipping it was about $540 from Partsouq, and I got a bunch of other parts for about zero extra shipping cost and everything was here in three days.
Then I boogered up my LCA ball joint threads by forgetting to put the nut on and using a puller with a cup-shaped fitting….drrr. So got a new 555 from NAPA and a ball joint set from Advance Auto. Kind of wrestled with the BJ trying to ensure it went in straight but eventually prevailed. And then forgot to paint it (555s are famous for instant surface rust); will see if I can hit it with sandpaper and a spray can before heading out this morning….
Had to do an axle snap ring swap because of the knuckle swap. Thank goodness I had a bag of snap rings from Cruiserteq and @TheForger ’s tool to pull the axle out nice and far to check the gap.
Bearings in there were timken, and the inside of the hub had clearly been gouged by an amateur removing the races (or I did it, which seems unlikely as I’ve removed a lot of wheel bearings and never down that before), which is weird bc the PO had almost everything done at the dealer…
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Where would I find one of those "swanky 3D printed ones"?View attachment 2850622Finally got some to installing two USB 3.0 ports in the place where the second row radio controls are located. I didn’t have the opportunity to order one of Ben’s swanky 3D printed panels so i used some acrylic i had laying around and rattle can the back side black so the smooth finish is facing outwards. Much better now that my girls don’t keep asking for a charge cable they have access to two
Lol for Ben's 3D printed parts post he's got a catalog of really cool panels etc here you goWhere would I find one of those "swanky 3D printed ones"?
Any sounds clips of exhaust and what series did you get?This weekend I installed:
*Magnaflow Muffler, to replace my OEM unit. Fair amount of tack welding and cutting tube and I’m pretty happy with the result. A little throaty, but not annoying (at least below 45- we‘ll see what highway noise is like soon enough)
*Made my BT45-toy Bluetooth unit work. Took some fussing, but hey! I can stream podcasts and the music of my choosing.
*Replace my shifter console bulb. Now I can see what gear I am in, in two locations. I will not let the laws of entropy turn my truck into a ragged, unappreciated heap, by golly.