Flexin her out

 

Sept 30th- 09
-New rear axle seals
-New'er axle shafts with 90% pads and good bearings being swapped over
-Ordered my Trail gear rock defense bumper last night.. should be arriving friday.. yippie!

 

October 3rd
-ge nighthawk lights
-oil change with oem filter
-TG rock defense front bumper installed and painted
-Heater core flushed/heater wiring fixed/blower motor cleaned

 

Overall i love the bumper, very nice. Welds look amazing, and its built. i was worried it would block my headlights but it doesnt effect them at all.

 

november 30th/09
-Repacked front passengers wheel bearing tonight at work, cleaned it all up and repacked er. very solid!. going to do drivers tomorrow night.
Going to weld in a little patch piece for the floorboard tomorrow to.. im sur ei got tones of other crap i did or going to do but not on this list for now haha.

 

December 12th/09

Haha, its only been one year... only one since i did my tchain.. the upper bolt where the coolant line bolts up to the rear of the cover.. got the bolt in and still noticed it was leaking a bit... so i got my mirror and looked around the waterpump and sure enough it was leaking from there.. not sure from the little valve or just the shaft? i knew i shoulda replacedit when i did my timingchain. so i went out and got another one.. cleaned everything up and bled the air out.. let it sit in my garage while i ate and no leaks!..
yaya. shes perfect... oh and i installed a 180* oem thermo and gasket.

 

December 17th..
Installed a autometer oil pressure guage... wowza is it pretty. haha, replaced it for my crappy oem guage oil press that didnt work..

 

December 24th/09
Made block off egr plates, now my idle problem is finnaly fixed.. no more missing. plus it sounds way better from 3k+.
Rebuild my idler arm.

 

Jan 26th, 2010

Got a very good deal on these elockers. Ill be selling one and keeping the other. One is a 4.10 and the other is a 4.56. Tomorrow im going to clean them up and check them out. Kinda pissed that i had to scrap my rear v6 axle housing last month because i could be doing the retrofit with that axle instead of using the one on my truck which will cause more downtime, But oh well. pretty stoked.



Edit. So after alot of crap, i found out both are 3.73s.. kinda a pisser but no biggie. Plan on ordering a 4.88 gear set for the rear and a rebuild kit then find a set of 4.88s for the front... voila!

 

March 26th 2010
New exhaust from headers back
Got new balljoints going in tomorrow
Another oil change with royal purple..

 

Great success!

New upper and lower bjs installed on both sides... woooow she rides smooth... tre next week then another alignment!..
god i love working in a shop..

 

April2nd, 2010
Got bored and ordered some 5" trailgear shackles to help out the settled rear downey leafs.. should look sick. hopefully in a month or two ill order my blazeland longtravel kit... yee.

 

Heres some pics..





She sits perfectly level couldnt ask for any more!

Now im not sure what to do... i want to get fiberglass rear 1/4s, i want to get my 4.88 rear elocker/front regeared and what not, 3.4? 7m? or 22ret? long travel...

god this thing is a money pit.. and ontop of this now im looking at getting a car..

 

Well.. ordered my trailgear sliders with the guesset kit... i got a welder lined up for very cheap.. perhaps if the parts come in by friday ill have them on by the weekend. Also removed the lame plastic moldings on the rear 1/4s.. im surprised they were still on..

 

Little update.. sliders came into today! score... yesterday was 2 year anni for my truck and i.. wooo

got the sliders mocked up and welded the tubes to the gussets... awee yea

 

And... they are on!

 

Little update, havent done much to the toy. been wasting money on tools, rc car stuff and other junk. Buttttt heres a list soon to come
I think im gonna put my order in for fiberglass rear 1/4s really soon, if not in sept when i get back from italy. Thinking about getting a trailgear rear bumper this friday coming up. Was going to bedline the inside of my truck today but i cant get ahold of the rep for Al's bedliner... Also may have a new shop lined up, if all goes well.. mo money mo parts..

and a little pic of the baby and I

 

got a new windshield in today, they also cleaned up all the rust in and around there.. wow truck is lookin better already

july 23rd
did a motorvac on the truck, this time it worked.. first time didnt get it going since we didnt have enough time. Anywho, hooked up the machine to the fuel filter line and had the return line off right behind the regulator.. let it sit for 35 mins with detergent mixture. And wow... idle is perfect, missfire is gone at idle and has a bit more power thru rpm range.. so worth it staying overtime at work haha.
Now the next is fiberglass 1/4s and a new head.. current one has leaky valve guides/seals and im gonna think if its cheaper/easier to either take off the head on my spare 22re and get a shop to do everything(machine the head,hot tank it, new guides valves... or buy some engnbldr parts and give it to them or just buy a complete engnbldr head with a cam.... mmmmm then do the hg..

 

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new floor pan! yaya for welder.. picked up a welder today. SO awesome!