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Today in The Shop, Truckee got fresh blood. I had a morning to myself while the kids are at their grandparents house, so I dig into my overdue maintenance list.
I changed the front and rear diff oils, then the tcase and finally the trans. I think I nearly doubled the recommended fluid change interval, but the oil in everything looked great and smelled very tolerable. I was pleasantly surprised everytime I pulled a drain plug, so Yay!
As a bonus, I re-installed the URD short throw shifter I purchased and installed a decade ago, but removed prior to a warranty claim I was going to make. I’m fairly certain I removed the shifter in roughly 2016/17. It’s been sitting in a box longer than it’s been on truckee, so today was the day I fixed that imbalance.
No pictures from today, nothing terribly exciting happened.
Last night I crossed two more tasks off my list. I finished the power steering system by calling off the two now unused vacuum ports on the intake. I finished the fuel system by connecting a piece of fuel hose to the two exposed hard lines, one on the firewall and the other on the inner fender.
Gotta order a piece of rad hose, and source a coupler so I can connect two rubber hoses together. I did this same task on the old SBC, but haven’t found a decent picture of what the coupler looks like. I’m sure i bought it at Home Hardware in town though.
Somewhere between a massive headache, and fever I managed to adapt my power steering system to the 3RZ. It was partially luck, partially good planning, as the high-pressure hose I had modified for the SBC in 2018 was a direct fit to the 3RZ outlet. I was not able to keep the vacuum operated metering valve, so I figure my steering will always feel pretty light. That’s ok with me, the Grant steering wheel is pretty small in diameter, I appreciate a lil extra assist.
The low pressure hose is nothing special, I reused 60% of the 3RZ hose.Up next i gotta tidy up the lower rad hose routing, still too close to the fan blades and/or alternator.
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Made great progress last night, many thanks to Matts genius idea.
A little back story first. The clips I found through rummaging about are effectively known as “Glass Door Pivots”, basically the hinge for old stereo cabinets. I KNOW I have at least 5 more glass doors or shelves kicking about my belongings, but after an hour of searching I gave up and took to google trying to buy two additional pivots. After coming up dry locally, I was looking at roughly $5 ea online, plus shipping, about $20 total.
Enter Matt.
Tom: “Blah blah blah, $20 for two more brackets, blah blah blah”
Matt: “Hey, those brackets are pretty beefy… could you just cut them in half?”
My hero. 20 seconds later they are cut, deburred, and being installed with blue locetite.
Then I got the rad installed, fine tuned the position of the shroud and snugged it down, installed the extension piece to protect bottom of blades, and tweaked the upper rad hose for lil extra clearance to the MAF sensor (1 finger clearance).
I was considering tweaking the lower rad hose, but a lingering headache said “Oh no you don’t!”, so I called it quits for the night.
Well perseverance paid off last night, snd I found the clip I require to fasten the two parts together. I believe what I have found are hinges for a glass door, once upon a time from an entertainment unit.
I only have 2, so I’ll be hitting up the Home Depot trying to find two more.
I have to grind the pivot point off, and add some blue loctite to the tiny Phillips machine screws.
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Tied on an epoxy buzz last night, less than desirable, but the results are OK.
Just need to source some clips that’ll hold the two pieces together. The former bolt flange is now too thin to get a faster into.
I have some mystery clips in my tool box that may suffice, but I want to find “the next size up” of this clip to be really secure.
The lower edge of the shroud is pretty thin because the fan rides low on the rad, so I had to add a rubber foot in the midpoint to prevent the shroud from flexing towards the rad. Might be overkill, but it also might fall off quickly.
Made a few more cuts in the fan shroud Important pieces, and have come up with something pretty decent. A dozen hot staples of various shapes have it holding together well. Tomorrow I’m going to add a couple tubes of epoxy or JB plastic to really solidify the joints. I don’t want this to get eaten by the fan.
Started cutting the fan shroud into important pieces today with A hacksaw and piece of 2×4 as a straight edge.
Bfore I can start reconnecting the important parts, I have to pull the radiator out. There’s only 4 bolts holding it in, so it’ll be quick work.
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I abandoned the wire mounting because the mounting feet got pretty complicated. So I broke out the cardboard and a flat plate of 10ga.
I used two of the MAF bolts, and two holes (one existing) in the inner fender. The fit is nearly perfect, just gotta primer and paint, and make a gasket to prevent a squeak.Up next, the fan shroud is getting modified.
Last night i got into the shop pretty early, and made progress on a couple items.
I added the required RTV to my MAF sensor block, basically as another physical barrier on top of the cork gasket.
I bent up a thin piece of wire to mockup the MAF block mounting bracket. On Tuesday or weds after work i gotta grab a piece of flat bar to bend up.
Thirdly I formed, connected, and restrained a fuel supply hard line from the tank to the firewall. Now i only need about 2ft of high pressure hose to complete that circuit.
Pretty productive evening, but that may just be about all ill get done this weekend. My hunny works nights for the whole long weekend, so I’ll be daddy on duty through to Tuesday return to work/school.
Bit by bit indeed, trying to keep focused.
I bought the RedLine at my local Davenports. They stock MTL, and I said I want MT-90 cause it’s a GL-4… they told me, no problem we’ll order it in for tomorrow. How many? Think i paid $30 each.
The other day I trimmed down my MAF adapter spacer, and finished making gaskets for it. Technically the spacer is complete, but I still need to figure out a way to mount it to the inner fender or battery box area cause it’s way too heavy to dangle, and i don’t want vibration to break or chaffe away at the intake pipe or upper rad hose. There is a sliver of light on both sides, meaning i am not touching the fuse box or rad hose. But i must secure it precisely here.
Over last two weeks i chipped away at my MAF sensor spacer, and finally have something i can work with.
I’ve still got some tweaking and shaping to do, and rig up a mount somehow, but getting much closer.Yesterday in the shop, I warmed the bike and changed the oil. Now I’ve got new tires, new oil and filter, full tank of gas…. Just waiting on more fair weather. This weekend looks warm but rainy, and I’m daddy-on-duty start to finish.
Up next will be continuation of work on Redee. I’ve got a couple nights worth of activities queued up.
Last night in The Shop, fresh tires!! Spooned, mounted, torqued. Ready to rip.
