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What a Great!!!! Job... you should open a shop, Im Greg from Instagram @jgregrodriguez
Thanks! Maybe some day...
Didn't get a whole lot done on the my truck this weekend. I moved home for the summer last Friday, and started prepping for a possible trip some friends and I might take out to Utah/Colorado. With that in mind, I've been doing some prep work on it to make sure the trip goes smoothly.
I dropped the driveshafts and greased them and the ujoints. Then put some fresh 15w-40 oil in and started working on the more serious issues.
First was to deal with the trailer wiring 3-2 wire converter that had stopped sending power to my left rear turn signal in the bumper wing. I put a new one in and all is good.
Since I got stuck in the river and the truck sat in sand and water for 6 or so hours, there has been a lot of noise coming from the pulleys and belts. My dad happened to find a 91 Cruiser in a parts yard and was able to scavenge some pulleys off of it.
Definitely not good.
None of the old pulleys spun very long and all made noise.
When moving the power steering pump out of the way to get to one of the pulleys, the return line split and started leaking. I recently replaced the outgoing line and that was a huge nightmare that involved taking the radiator out and I feared that was in store for this line. However, that wasn't the case and a trip to Autozone and I had a new line that was just slightly different in diameter. My dad bought several filters for powersteering pumps so we also put that in.
I had painted the bumper wing light holders to match my wheels a couple of weekends ago, but the look was getting on my nerves. I was between taking my headlights out and painting the surrounds in graphite gray or painting the bumper wing pieces in black. I decided to do that. I think I'm going to tint the lower valence lights a little bit to make them not so clear/chrome-looking. I wish they had never been on the 80, but oh well.
Something in my air horn solenoid also stopped working and my air horns are no longer getting power when I hit my horns to unleash air so that is something I plan to work on in the next day or so. It's hard to check for power by myself.
I also need to grind the welds off that hold my bumper on and remove the Badlands winch. A couple weekends ago I was helping my dad around the house and needed to use the winch. I was pulling the line out and all of a sudden the winch just started clicking. Opened up the solenoid box and everything looked brand new. I checked for power and everything was working as it should so I believe the problem is in the winch itself.
I also need to get some materials to finish reinforcing the receiver hitch to a frame crossmember.
My brother's LC got some 315/75/16 Mastercraft MXTs after one of the old Nittos almost blew. Ride greatly improved. Also put on the replacement valence and bumper since his wreck.
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Can't have that nasty factory bumper hanging down.
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A cutting wheel, flap disk, and 30 minutes or so of time later
After taking his old valence out, we figured out we would not be able to put the 11" light bars in the valence and have it look good so we will not end up doing that on mine.