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- Lilly Re-powered Part 6: Gauge swap - 02-09-2015
- Get more from your torque wrench! - 02-07-2015
- Lilly Re-powered Part 3: Making things fit - 01-26-2015
- Lilly Re-powered Part 2: 3FE comes out - 01-26-2015
- Lilly Re-powered Part 1 - 01-26-2015
- Extra! Extra! - 01-25-2015
- Hood Light - 05-31-2014
- Rock lights - 05-31-2014
- Lights, camera, air. - 05-31-2014
- Swing outs... - 03-16-2014
- Shifting Springs - 03-10-2014
- ARB Bumper Modifications - 01-19-2014
- Fire Extinguishers - 01-17-2014
- Antifreeze Simplified - 11-03-2013
- No School, Like Old School - 11-03-2013
Just Plain Good Ideas
Trail Repair, Almost
We got a bit of a night run at CTW this year after all.
After getting back to camp at the end of the Friday Run I found out that one of the guys rigs was left in the woods on the Rocky Uphill trail due to a steering issue. And not a minor one at that. The sector shaft (thats the one inside the steering box that the pitman arm is attached to) had broken off so there was no way to steer the rig.
Look Around
Whenever you are under your rig take a look around as you never know what you will find. I was doing a brake and knuckle job on my wifes wagon and look what I found. Fortunately it is not one of the two main leaves and I do have another pair of springs handy to replace these with.
But this is all the proof you need as to why you should look around at everything under your rig both before you leave on a run and after you have been…
Rusted Cone Washers
Until very recently I have never had a problem with removing the cone washers to do maintenance on the front axle. Either by slipping a small screwdriver into the slot and getting them out the FSM way or gentle tapping on the aluminum hub housing has never failed to get them out.
Saving a Clutch Fork
By Tony K
Sad to say the clutch fork design on a BJ 60 is not the best. Not only is the fork prone to some very specific wear, short of pulling the tranny there is no easy way to remove the fork to fix it. But don’t despair as there is an easy way to work around this and it doesn’t require any sort of major tear down. At worst all you will have to do is remove the slave cylinder. And you only have to remove the bolts that hold it on, you can leave the lines attached so you don’t have to bleed it when you reinstall it.
Special Service Tools
By Tony K
If you have read the Factory Service Manual you frequently come across the dreaded mention of an SST or Special Service Tool. I say dreaded because the only place you seem to be able to get them is from Toyota and we all know that means they are not going to be cheap. But I have to admit I have never bought an SST from Toyota as with a little thinking you can come up with many serviceable alternatives that do the job really well but also do not cost you an arm and a leg.