What have you done to your rig today?

[NotyourmomsWife]

A wise old timer once told me about old cars is to fix things until you find the one thing broken you can live with and leave it. You will *never* have a completely functional vehicle so if you fix that nuisance rattle in the dash you'll throw a rod.

Just turn the radio up and its fixed lol

 

[MonPetiteShoe]

J1000 is welding my sliders up today. Going to take them home and get them painted up after this and he'll burn them to my frame hopefully tomorrow.

The mullet energy is strong in @J1000. You're in good hands. What a man!

 

[NotyourmomsWife]

Funny that it happened just after Lisa's 3rd gen starts having issues, she started getting a front end clunk on Slaughterhouse and she also tore a CV boot. Guess they can't have two solid vehicles at once lol.

Still don’t know what the popping noise is and it’s not really doing it anymore of course….

 

[jps8460]

Bought Shrek and Fiona (both 94 80’s) an early christmas present. Found an immaculate one on eBay.

 

[nuclearlemon]

Pulled windshield hooks off one of the parts rigs and replaced the crusty ones on the 25

 

[KC Masterpiece]

Brake booster replacement on the 80. Things to be done before the 60 returns. Went with the "OEM style" from cruiser corps. Easy job but a bit of a pain without removing the brake master. The new unit was a bit bigger. MUD makes it seem difficult but I found it more frustrating.

First bit of work done in a heated garage in 7 years! Feels good!

Finished with a dead flat battery....

 

[DomOfTheDead]

still chasing my mystery clunk in the taco. decide to replace the 3 ujoints in the 2 piece rear driveshaft and the support carrier. I swear I greased these guys regularly but found rusted out needle bearings in 2 of the 3, right at the zirc cap

 

[gungriffin]

still chasing my mystery clunk in the taco. decide to replace the 3 ujoints in the 2 piece rear driveshaft and the support carrier. I swear I greased these guys regularly but found rusted out needle bearings in 2 of the 3, right at the zirc cap

Whoa, that is a lot of rust! Might be time to switch em over to green grease

 

[WildCrustacean]

Started my list of front suspension work / various related tasks. Plan was to do the following:

1) Replace hose-clamped driver's side CV axle with rebooted junkyard OEM axle that doesn't leak
2) Front lower control arm bushings / cam adjusters (reported seized at last alignment).
3) Replace steering outer tie rod ends (threads on at least one were destroyed after last time)

Success on #1, the reboot kit works a lot better on an actual OEM axle than on a different one. We'll see if it holds but it already looks better. On the left is the junkyard OEM (before rebooting), on the right is the messed up aftermarket axle that I tried to reboot, and then hose clamped the daylights out of to make it last for a few months. I did have to run an external thread cleaner on the junkyard axles to get the axle nut to go on smoothly, somebody hammered them pretty good at some point.

Mixed results on #2 so far. The driver's side came out without much of a fight, old bushings out with the bottle jack trick, new poly bushings pressed in and reinstalled in a couple hours.

Passenger side is seized really tight. Hammered on it, PB blaster, torch, no movement at all. It turns but I think the bushing is busted internally and the inner sleeves are seized together. Tried the trick from the other forum where you use an axle nut and put the bolt and cam nut thing in backwards to try to draw it out, no movement at all to the point where I was afraid I was going to stretch the threads on the bolt or break something. Only option left that I know of is to cut them out. Went through five sawzall blades to make one of the four cuts, I think I need a different kind of blade to finish the job

Hopefully I can get the old bushings out, once that's done it should go back together without much trouble.

 

[DHwreckage]

finally got my shit together to get the cruiser back up and running so it was a long weekend of maintenance

• replaced the fuel pump relay while im chasing a loss of power in higher RPMs
• replaced my leaking low pressure PS lines and flushed the system
• did an ignition tune-up, new spark plugs and wires and new Distributor rotor, cap and gasket...still need to replace the o-ring
• upgraded my battery cables with a kit from Mud that i got probably 5yrs ago...
• new windshield washer pump, diverter and fan spray nozzles from a tundra since mine was no longer providing enough pressure
• Oil change
• Xfer and F/R Diff fluid change
• greased my driveshaft, and broke a zirk...woo
• reset timing to 4ish*

I have some dobinson coils and shocks hopefully coming tomorrow to update my very old slee lift, and need to piece together a few pieces for the turbo kit I have coming from the land of kangaroos! my poor truck has need some love for awhile, hopefully the suspension and turbo will make it a little better to drive in the mountains!

 

[rushthezeppelin]

Started my list of front suspension work / various related tasks. Plan was to do the following:

1) Replace hose-clamped driver's side CV axle with rebooted junkyard OEM axle that doesn't leak
2) Front lower control arm bushings / cam adjusters (reported seized at last alignment).
3) Replace steering outer tie rod ends (threads on at least one were destroyed after last time)

Success on #1, the reboot kit works a lot better on an actual OEM axle than on a different one. We'll see if it holds but it already looks better. On the left is the junkyard OEM (before rebooting), on the right is the messed up aftermarket axle that I tried to reboot, and then hose clamped the daylights out of to make it last for a few months. I did have to run an external thread cleaner on the junkyard axles to get the axle nut to go on smoothly, somebody hammered them pretty good at some point.

Mixed results on #2 so far. The driver's side came out without much of a fight, old bushings out with the bottle jack trick, new poly bushings pressed in and reinstalled in a couple hours.

Passenger side is seized really tight. Hammered on it, PB blaster, torch, no movement at all. It turns but I think the bushing is busted internally and the inner sleeves are seized together. Tried the trick from the other forum where you use an axle nut and put the bolt and cam nut thing in backwards to try to draw it out, no movement at all to the point where I was afraid I was going to stretch the threads on the bolt or break something. Only option left that I know of is to cut them out. Went through five sawzall blades to make one of the four cuts, I think I need a different kind of blade to finish the job

Hopefully I can get the old bushings out, once that's done it should go back together without much trouble.

I feel your pain. I tried the makeshift press truck on some junkyard and and it didn't work. Sometimes sawzall is the only way. Make sure to grease cam sleeve up when reinstalling (don't grease the bolts as that can change the clamping force).

 

[WildCrustacean]

I feel your pain. I tried the makeshift press truck on some junkyard and and it didn't work. Sometimes sawzall is the only way. Make sure to grease cam sleeve up when reinstalling (don't grease the bolts as that can change the clamping force).

I melted 5 milwaukee metal blades doing the first cut, then went and bought a couple of diablo amped steel demon carbide blades and man those go through hardened steel like butter. The old bushings came out no problem so I'm back on track now. Will be sure to grease the cam sleeve and not the bolt, that makes sense. Not sure if there is any way to prevent them seizing forever, but hopefully I won't have to be taking these apart again for a long time.

 

[rushthezeppelin]

I melted 5 milwaukee metal blades doing the first cut, then went and bought a couple of diablo amped steel demon carbide blades and man those go through hardened steel like butter. The old bushings came out no problem so I'm back on track now. Will be sure to grease the cam sleeve and not the bolt, that makes sense. Not sure if there is any way to prevent them seizing forever, but hopefully I won't have to be taking these apart again for a long time.

Yeah I'm glad I didn't bother with anything but Diablos when I did that job. I think I still torched one not keeping enough lubrication on it though.

 

[rushthezeppelin]

I melted 5 milwaukee metal blades doing the first cut, then went and bought a couple of diablo amped steel demon carbide blades and man those go through hardened steel like butter. The old bushings came out no problem so I'm back on track now. Will be sure to grease the cam sleeve and not the bolt, that makes sense. Not sure if there is any way to prevent them seizing forever, but hopefully I won't have to be taking these apart again for a long time.

If you get whitelines you won't have to worry about the seizing really. Inner bushing sleeve is not attached to the bushing so even if it seizes to the cam it's still able to be aligned.

 

[WildCrustacean]

If you get whitelines you won't have to worry about the seizing really. Inner bushing sleeve is not attached to the bushing so even if it seizes to the cam it's still able to be aligned.

I am using the whiteline poly bushings. True that it would still work for alignment, but if it seized you'd still have to cut it to get the LCA off again I think.

 

[rushthezeppelin]

I am using the whiteline poly bushings. True that it would still work for alignment, but if it seized you'd still have to cut it to get the LCA off again I think.

Correct, it will still have to be cut off it seizes again. Really hoping marine grease stays in there long enough, those whiteline sleeves will be a massive pain to cut if not.

 

[On the RX]

Started my list of front suspension work / various related tasks. Plan was to do the following:

1) Replace hose-clamped driver's side CV axle with rebooted junkyard OEM axle that doesn't leak
2) Front lower control arm bushings / cam adjusters (reported seized at last alignment).
3) Replace steering outer tie rod ends (threads on at least one were destroyed after last time)

Success on #1, the reboot kit works a lot better on an actual OEM axle than on a different one. We'll see if it holds but it already looks better. On the left is the junkyard OEM (before rebooting), on the right is the messed up aftermarket axle that I tried to reboot, and then hose clamped the daylights out of to make it last for a few months. I did have to run an external thread cleaner on the junkyard axles to get the axle nut to go on smoothly, somebody hammered them pretty good at some point.

Mixed results on #2 so far. The driver's side came out without much of a fight, old bushings out with the bottle jack trick, new poly bushings pressed in and reinstalled in a couple hours.

Passenger side is seized really tight. Hammered on it, PB blaster, torch, no movement at all. It turns but I think the bushing is busted internally and the inner sleeves are seized together. Tried the trick from the other forum where you use an axle nut and put the bolt and cam nut thing in backwards to try to draw it out, no movement at all to the point where I was afraid I was going to stretch the threads on the bolt or break something. Only option left that I know of is to cut them out. Went through five sawzall blades to make one of the four cuts, I think I need a different kind of blade to finish the job

Hopefully I can get the old bushings out, once that's done it should go back together without much trouble.

I know this PIA all too well! I had to cut mine out also. Got it all back together, aligned, then 4 days later had a little issue on the trail and split one of my whitelone bushings and completely jacking up my fresh alignment to the point that I get to take it all apart again, Replace the bushing, alignment tabs, and some other issues. Whiteline did send me an entire new set of bushings on the house!

 

[WildCrustacean]

I know this PIA all too well! I had to cut mine out also. Got it all back together, aligned, then 4 days later had a little issue on the trail and split one of my whitelone bushings and completely jacking up my fresh alignment to the point that I get to take it all apart again, Replace the bushing, alignment tabs, and some other issues. Whiteline did send me an entire new set of bushings on the house!

Wow, seems like it would take quite a lot to split one of those bushings that badly, seems like that's the standard that most people are using to replace the old ones. I replaced the outer tie rod ends too, tried to put everything back close to where it was. I'm sure my alignment is completely ruined now too, but that's a problem for next week.

 

[rushthezeppelin]

Wow, seems like it would take quite a lot to split one of those bushings that badly, seems like that's the standard that most people are using to replace the old ones. I replaced the outer tie rod ends too, tried to put everything back close to where it was. I'm sure my alignment is completely ruined now too, but that's a problem for next week.

He took a pretty hard hit, I was on that run. He also debeaded a tire in that incident.

 

[On the RX]

It was a really good hit!