Just give Dr. Rockzo one more ch-ch-chance!

Well, things got worser on the '95. Altough I was able to separate the tie rod and the upper ball joint just by whacking the fitting areas, the lower refused to budge. Had to use a pickle fork, and in the process, gouged the living [email]cr@p[/email] out of my rotor. Wish it was as easy as replacing the rear rotors, but it isn't. It ticks me off even more because I had just put the new bearings in that side and set them up. Now I have to do all that over again, too. At least I'm getting fast at it.

John B.

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Are you at least getting to Kung Fu Grand Master Whitebeard level with Power Words?

I may not be quite that good...yet.

John B.

I said to "H" with it and took my Dremel to the side of the rotor with the multi-dings. I used a wheel that allowed me to remove material without gouging the disc surface, so I essentially just knocked off the high spots and left the indentations. Put everything back together, bedded in the brakes with some proper stops from 60 and I'm happy. No noise, no pulsing, no pulling side-to-side. Smooth grippy brakes.

Everything's tight up front, too. Ready for the alignment shop, but they'll probably laugh and say it's so close it doesn't need much, it feels that good.

WARNING: I'm going to need to lean on The Crew again, as I need a timing belt job and valve stem seals. Hope I'm not pushing my luck.

Can't believe how fun it is to drive this truck again!

John B.

Let's celebrate with WALL THONG TACO BEERS!!!

i still need to come over and give one of the wires power thats why your pump isn't running

Excellent, LT, thanks. I'll get under the thing and recheck all those gas line fittings and clamp some stuff up so it won't spew, hopefully.

Made my appointment at Discount Tire for the '95 for this morning. I like to make them rotate the tires and rebalance them since they were the ones who mounted them originally and heck, I paid for the service, so dance for me, monkeys!

Then it's over to Jack's for an alignment. Hurrah, finally!

John B.

I was told I was 1/8" off on my eyeball alignment regarding the setting of the toe on the '95. I was out by that much. Joel at Jack's said I'll put him out of business with that kind of work, and I'll take that as a compliment. That truck is set to short-term rock.

I started inspecting the '86 for fueling issues. I found a few "I.D.G.A.F" items, and by that, it appears somebody didn't really spend a few minutes thinking this through. One of the leak/spew/spray points was on the pressure line by the gas tank. Reused a spring clamp between the fuel injection hose off the pump to the hard line? I double clamped that one and also used the spring clamp, so there's now three on that connection.

Keeping with the back, the terminals on the fuel pump weren't tight; simple fix. All of the hose clamps needed tightening. The fuel hard lines are now back in the factory mount that was disconnected when the body lift went in, which just necessitated moving the clamp a little and making the fuel pump ground share the bolt attachment point.

I then ran a jumper wire from the battery to the fuel pump positive. Good news: no fuel leaks in the back any more. Bad news/not really; the fuel leaks from the high pressure banjo connection at the front fuel filter, and I mean it leaks big time. There may be a wave washer missing, but I ran out of daylight to be able to check.

I'm impressed with the fuel fittings I got from NAPA. Just as Toasty said, they don't even require clamps to hold incredible pressure and the only way the hose would come off of them is to cut it off. None of them leak. And zero leaks so far from anything Pa_Jero made with Teflon tape at screw-in connectors. I need to be able to reach static/full pressure and be able to see it hold before anything else.

I think I'm close here.

I found a round top part with the important sensors inside, to the air cleaner. Odd. I had that weird oval one, plus the round one, but I don't have the round filter enclosure can. No problem for now; I'll just clamp the filter to the top/important part for the time being. At least the filter fits.

My power steering pulley (but not the pump bracket) will be here tomorrow. After I hopefully put that on, I should be able to mount the radiator and shroud up and plumb the transmission cooler, which this truck didn't have when stock (the 3-speed auto just relied on the one in the radiator).

That's it for today. I smell like gas!

John B.

That would be me and Clay on that, we switched jobs halfway through and that was the result. I did tell you to give it a once over. But i didn't put clamps on some of the hydraulic fittings because we were short on clamps (at least i couldn't find them) and i figure'd at least those would be OK.

MY bad JBFP

Just giving you dudes a hard time.

It's under control.

John B.