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Yesterday in The Shop, a total floorplan makeover occurred. With help from James, the mighty Taco dragged the donor carcass out the bay door and back onto the crappy part of the lawn awaiting pickup from the scrappers.
After the donor was removed, 75% of the big shop contents were shuffled around and lots went out the door.
I fired up Redee (without hesitation) and got her positioned in the shop. Then the task of stuffing all my items back into the shop took way longer than I thought.
Last task of the day was swapping Sam’s snow tires onto her van. The non-Redee workspace is a little narrow, but is totally doable for most tasks I’ll do this winter (oil changes, tire rotations, greasing etc).Still no pickup, if they don’t show up tomorrow I’m gonna use the Taco to drag it out, my patience is wearing thin. I’ve got snow tires to swap, a floor plan to rearrange and most importantly Redee needs her winter home prepared.
Glad the Taco is working well for your adventures. It’d suck to realize an SUV is where you really wannabe.
I’n really admiring the capability and versatility of your trailers. Having dragged my crappy one to Ardbeg a couple times, I can appreciate how much better built yours must be haha. I’m contemplating a better trailer so I can haul more than one ATV at a time. But my wife has expressed (more than once) the desire to go camping again, but conditional on having a real bed to sleep in. So a trailer of other sorts seems likely to be in my future. Doesn’t at all help my ability to haul more toys to the woods haha.
First snowfall of the year here in Shelburne has me pondering winterization for the toys.
When are you packing away the ‘51? Gonna be tucked away in your garage now that you’ve made lotsa space?
I popped into my local metal scrappers to request a pickup yesterday morning, and now I’m in a waiting pattern. Hopefully they come tomorrow, I’m ready to have the donor leave The Shop.
I’m glad for your sake that you’ve changed them once before you require a trailside fix. The front end of this donor was practically fused together. Didn’t even to to break bolts on the second CV I pulled, just cut out everything in the way.
I got the steering rack and cvs with castle nuts and dust caps set aside for you.
Well, the best of plans fell short to rust, so I needed a few big cuts to get the CVs out. Anyways, they’re out now, and only 1 tiny banged up thread on one shaft. Sorry Evan, but it’s a 1-min fix for ya to grind out one thread.
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I’ve gotta plan of attack for those CVs. I borrowed a 35mm socket from my buddy, will cut the nut off the upper BJ, use air hammer to drive it outta the hub, and just throw a weld back on the upper BJ stud to keep it located in the UCA long enough for the donor to be winched onto the scrapper trailer. Hoping the angle grinder and disregard for the donor will help make quick work of this extraction.
Last night I pulled a couple heat shields, the brake pedal/master/booster and devised this CV plan.
Hoping tonight to finish up with CVs, airbox fender snorkel, maybe the battery tray and maybe some of the under hood fuel lines (just for the threaded fittings).
Last night in The Shop, I broke out the hot knife to help remove some good parts off the donor.
I cut out and set aside the trans/tcase and both driveshafts, more of the exhaust, trailer hitch and door mirrors.
Now that the exhaust is out the way I can pull the heat shields and just about have my “harvest list” complete.Evan, what’s the easiest way to pull CV’s on these trucks? Separate the lower balljoint?
Redee has factory 4.10s with an air locker in the rear. I have a full set of 4.56s on the shop floor, but both F/R are open. Torn between +10% torque vs -50% traction. In my estimated 5,000kms of touring, I’ve used that air locker once or twice, it seems a little unreliable at times. I feel like a lunchbox would be fine, and with exception to Ardbeg (once) and No Winter roads (a 20M section here or there) the open diff would be more than adequate.
I’m gonna keep 33s, but long range plan is to go much skinnier. 33×12.5 now, ideal is a 33×10 mud terrain. I will run these Duratracs out though, my attempts at selling them only yielded frustration.
Yea this donor has been taunting me for months, but finally got the tools and time aligned. Pretty sure I got all I NEED so far, but gotta do a triple check before I call the scrapper.
You interested in the brake booster and/or master? Anything else interest you? I’m gonna drop the trans/tcase cause I’d hate to see them go to scrap, they both shifted so smoothly. Gas tank doesn’t leak, front doors are decent.
Redee’s new heart is hanging from the hoist, waiting on some refresh parts before starting the process of transplanting.
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Yesterday in The Shop, a donor was harvested! James and I had a great day pulling the motor, electrical, and bellhousing from that incredibly rusty 3rd gen 4Runner. Technically I have all the parts I require for the swap, but I’m gonna pull a few more parts off before sending her off to scrap.
Evan, I got the steering rack out for you, but have made no attempts on the CV’s.
The mystery of no headlights and no voltage have both been solved. For the headlights, I must have flicked the “lights off” kill switch at some point on my last ride home after I melted that fuse. Unfortunately, the 0.8V measured is less cheap to repair. That crazy over voltage wrecked my battery, I could barely remove it from its holster in the bike because it is so swollen and misshapen. Glad it did not start a fire under my butt!
Gonna order a new battery, and hope it arrives before I park the bike for the season. Daytime highs in the teens let me think I can ride till end of november, but my tolerance for cold weather is practically nill since I entered my 30’s
Sunday Sunday Sunday! Got the entire day to myself in the shop. First goal is to harvest the 3RZ from the donor, secondary goal would be to harvest Evan’s parts (CV’s & steering rack) third is to get the donor back outside.
Yesterday I received my new Voltage regulator in the mail, so I threw it, a new fuse and headlight bulb in the bike. The new bulb didn’t turn on when the engine fired up, so I tested the battery and it had less than 1 volt stored. Gonna try to recharge the battery by idling the bike in the driveway today, otherwise I’ll put the charger on it.
Yesterday, Matt bought himself an old bike, a 1986 Suzuki DR 600S. Same bike as mine, just two years older, and in better shape than when I brought mine home. Carb troubles are its only defect (this far). I suspect the float is sticking because he says gas was pissing out the overflow vent, and the carb is missing the rocker arm for the accelerator pump. I’ll do my best to repair the carb on Friday whilst I do consumption, I know Matt is very eager to hear the bike run. It would sputter and die when he went to buy it, my guess is that it was horribly flooded.
