I do that Kroil treatment every day for a week to make life easier - doesn't always work but way less frustrating when it does.
What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week?
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Someone said Ed's Red the home made gun/bore cleaning stuff was almost as good as Kroil but way cheaper. I have used Red before but I like Shooter's Choice better for cast bullet crud.
I’ve seen several studies showing the most effective thing for creeping into threads is the old acetone/ATF mixture. I keep a can of Kroil around handy for stuff like this, I don’t use it much considering the price. If it’s not that bad or important it’s gets PB Blaster LOL
nabbasi
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I love kroil (I can’t stand the smell of PB Blaster anymore), but Linda laughs at it. I just assume every bolt will break, and even then, it’s still disappointing. Needless to say, I did not get the battery tray replaced last night.
@nabbasi I couldn’t agree more on the smell of PB Blaster, I can’t stand it.
POPO AGIE
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Kroil can get smoky and the smell is can get bad. We use it on turbine nuts and the like that have been heat soaked for months or years. Then we mostly use induction heating to stretch the studs for assembly and disassembly. Anti-seize will only help so much.
nabbasi
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Nothing major.
So I got to hit a guardrail on the highway this week! Posted yesterday about getting new TRE’s installed. Good friend of mine swapped them out at his shop. Took it to another shop about 30 minutes away for the alignment. I’ve been using them for several years now on all my vehicles. 40 drove great for about 10 minutes, heard something bounce into the floor board then I totally lost steering on a 4 lane highway. Luckily traffic was light and I started to slow down as soon as I heard what could have been a bolt. Was heading for the guard rail when I decided to nail the brakes. Got it slowed some but still slammed the guard rail at probably a glancing angle. Hop out and sure enough totally separated. Call the alignment shop and they immediately start the blame game. Thank god it didn’t end worse. As far as I can tell the bumper is the only damage. Could have ended up soooo much worse.
Glad that wasn’t worse.
Sounds like that one is on your friend.
Alignment shop shouldn't have been dismounting that connection.
So it looks to me that nut was only on finger tight and no cotter pin = either they forgot due to break time; end of day OR someone rigged it for failure - hard to see that backside just walking by
Incoming text….
POPO AGIE
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You were very lucky
POPO AGIE
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I rolled mine in 1979 on the way to work just before I got to Jim Bridger Power Plant in a blizzard.
Yeah I could speculate till the cows came home on what happened. Honestly choosing not to go that route with all the scenarios. Was home last night alive and with minimal damage so I’ve decided to just be happy with that.
You should check your nuts.
Couldn’t agree more.
A few years back I was doing a bunch of random work on a customer's built fj45 Rubicon rig on 37s. Adding FI on the sbc and more
I was confident in all the work I had done and was out road testing it and picked up one of my kids from school in it for fun.
To get across town there is a shortcut to get on the interstate for a couple of miles which I did, got off at my normal exit drove the mile to my house and as I was about a quarter mile from my house lost steering going straight at 20 mph in the neighborhood.
Was able to stop safely.
Further inspection shows the universal joint that was attached to the Saginaw box had completely disconnected from the box.
This was nothing I was working on nor could easily see without specifically crawling under there with a mirror to look for it.
I got a little nauseated thinking about what would have happened to me and my son if that happened when we were on the interstate traveling at speed in that thing on 37s.
Ugh.
Never took the kids in a customer rig again
Glad you're okay and it's only the bumper, that's terrifying
I was confident in all the work I had done and was out road testing it and picked up one of my kids from school in it for fun.
To get across town there is a shortcut to get on the interstate for a couple of miles which I did, got off at my normal exit drove the mile to my house and as I was about a quarter mile from my house lost steering going straight at 20 mph in the neighborhood.
Was able to stop safely.
Further inspection shows the universal joint that was attached to the Saginaw box had completely disconnected from the box.
This was nothing I was working on nor could easily see without specifically crawling under there with a mirror to look for it.
I got a little nauseated thinking about what would have happened to me and my son if that happened when we were on the interstate traveling at speed in that thing on 37s.
Ugh.
Never took the kids in a customer rig again
Glad you're okay and it's only the bumper, that's terrifying
It should be easy enough to inspect your nuts while you're changing your shorts.