After a relatively successful trip to Moab, I motored Uzi back into the garage for some work. First goal: reseal the front end to avoid those embarrassing drips and oozes. Oddly enough, most of them are on the passenger side -- I blame Michael, who was riding shotgun. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/pfft.gif" alt="" />

If blueprinting the knuckle shims with the factory alignment SST doesn't fix the oozes, that's another strike against the Toyota axle and another argument for the Dana 60 I have on the axle rack.

Next task will be to identify why I was popping fuel pump fuses like mad... I musta gone through eight 7.5amp fuses in Moab! Ohming out the harness should be simple enough, but I'm also gonna check the gauge wire at the pump and see whether I just underspecced the fuse. I was pretty careful (I took my time, at least!) with all my electrical connections, so I am surprised to see a failure.

After that, I will have to consider body work. My wife thinks I should just spend the season with this set of sheet metal and relearn the behavior of the vehicle, but crinkled tinfoil just aint't my style. Worse yet, the driver's side took the most damage, and that's the one I gotta look at!

Sidenote -- while disassembling a fire hydrant for cleanup and eventual use in the local dog park, I performed a nearly surgical removal of the fingerprint of my left thumb. Not too painful to do (sorta gross, tho), but the cleanup and bandage operation was less than nifty. I definitely got into less trouble when I was just sitting around, with my thumb up my...

Randii