While this thing won’t be updated daily I will try to put those little things in it that really are not worth a write up of their own. Lump them together, let you chuckle at my expense for the latest dumb things I have to fix.
Oct 25
I have been doing little dumb things to the diesel as usual but the biggest one, adding a 2M radio got a write up of its own so i didn’t think it was worth mentioning. About the only thing bothering me right now is a persistant small leak of 90 wt from either the t-case or the tranny. But today I didn’t feel so bad as I pulled the fill plugs on both and neither one was low. So this is a really slow leak… Probably nothing to worry about at this point
Sept 8
Drained the tranny and decided to give synthetic gear lube a second chance since I have now fixed the 3rd gear synchro. It helped that I already had the synthetic lube since I saved it after it was drained the first time with very few miles on it. We will see….
Sept 5
Finally got around to replacing the brake line I tore out at Rubicon last summer! Yes I had brakes using a temporary replacement but I finally put the correct line back in that allows me to flop the caliper onto the spring without disconnecting any thing. And no I won’t tell you how I managed to rip it out with a tow strap while I was hooked to Eric’s trailer going up Cadillac Hill…..
Also replaced the hardline on the drivers side front axle. A long time ago the nut on the end that enters the flex line got rounded off and I finally tired of using vise grips to tighten it down. Bought a new one from Specter.
Checked my glow plugs as well. Rig is starting a little rough when cold but it wasn’t the glow plugs so I will have to look elsewhere.
Possible rear driveshaft replacement might be in the future, splines are a bit looser than I like.
