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Tony’s Cave
No School, Like Old School
Looked out at the spouse’s wagon and saw a dreaded flood coming out from under the hood. Put off looking at it and saw some anti-freeze but nothing to indicate anything worse than a leaky hose.
Decided to take a closer look and found quite a bit of coolant puddling up at the base of the radiator. Popped the cap and had to add about a gallon of coolant to top things off so now I knew I had a problem.
Who’s Rig is That?
Not sure I ever drove my rig this way before, sans roof rack. But the need arose when I had to get into the parking garage at the Seattle Airport parking garage….
Air Compressor Maintenance
A bit of a dilemna happened at work the other day. I needed air on a job and both the compressors were broken. So like all Cruiser drivers, time to once again think inside the wagon..
I can say that I never expected to use the compressor in my rig to run a nail gun. But yup, if you look close in that one pic you can see the hose running out the back of my rig and up into a boat.
T-case Leak Fix
If you have a late model Tcase you may well have the leak problem I ran into.
I rebuilt my t-case awhile back so I was a bit surprised to find a fairly consistent drip and puddle under the rig. And once I found the offending source of the drip I was a bit surprised.
Skidplate Clearance
While looking around for the leak in my t-case I found something interesting.
I had made my skidplate with very little clearance for my t-case and while this was great for clearance under the rig, it did create a minor problem.
I found that my t-case was actually rubbing on my skidplate. No noise or anthing obvious, at least until I pulled the skidplate and noticed a shiny spot on the inside. Then I took a look at the bottom of the tcase and saw what’s in that pic. Not a lot of damage but too much of this and there could eventually be a problem.