Recent content by Dieselchessy

Should be easy enough to look in the radiator neck at the sealing surface and inspect it for damage/defects. Maybe rub a finger around it. Can feel stuff we can’t see. Cool radiator a given.

Those should be larger diameter rotors with further spaced out calipers. Hose mount is probably different angle as well. I suspect they would fit but you’d need the right 17” wheels to clear them. Probably not worth the effort.

If you’ve never replaced spark plugs on a mid 00 Ford...... broken plugs, special tools to remove said broken plug. Not to mention those Fords have a bit of a record of plug/coil issues and misfire issues. If your thinking 3.4L Toyota plug job when they quote the Ford job, I could see how the...

890’s took me from 20.5 to 23.5” fender to hub center. They ride amazingly smooth with no weight. 3 teens in the back and some fishing gear and it sets it down about an inch or so to level and the ride is squishy. I just put in air bags, so after elk season I’ll have a decent idea how that...

Don’t know about 08, but third gens Toyota recommends water pump and timing belt at 90k. So maybe that’s the actual factory recommended interval. The OP never did say how old his tires are or even if they are weather checked, just that some other place passed his rig. Sounds to me like the...

The big issue with electric cars and California is the electricity. There is no clean way to get electricity. You either dam a river, make a wind farm, make a solar array farm, or maybe wave energy? We all know about the negatives of whale oil and fossil fuels, we’re pretty learned about the...

I put right about 2” lift on my rig, back is a touch higher. Shop was able to align in spec for caster, but toward the lower end. Rig drove ok. Less return to center and more wander/twitchy when cruising rutted highway. Installed the JBA upper arms and return to center is much quicker and the...

Just looked on my rig and the clip is just outboard of the fuel filler hose. Kind of hidden by the filler hose metal section. I’m under there installing 10” Firestone air bags into my 890’s. Fun stuff.

Looks like the rear diff locker breather hose. Supposed to be slid in between the body floor brace and the body floor and held in by a little metal clip. If you look at the body floor above the locker you should see the clip on the floor brace in one of the floor channels. The hose will slide...

Draw lines from side to side across the retaining ring. Then install the axle and spin it a few times. Then pull it out and see where the rubber seal lip rubbed off the sharpie.

My 99 did similar. Was fine towing for years, then one day was towing a friends boat with short trailer cable and turned sharp enough to unplug the ground side of the connector. Some smoke came out from under the dash and my fuel gauge read about 1/2 tank all the time. I figured out I had...

I had motor west clean and tune my grey ones. Working great for almost a year now. If done again I’d do the upgrades they offer.

Somebodies pliers, side cutters, or strippers are probably missing a spring.

What brand ball joints? Did you check them for grease before install? Not sure what you undid, but if you undid any of the controll arm bolts, did you torque/tighten them when the rig was supporting its own weight on the tires? Correct ball joint on the correct side? Never had any squeaks...

Confused as to why you seem to think there should be more than one groove and one C-clip? There should be just one to help retain the axle in the bearing plate. That’s so the axle doesn’t slide out causing an accident. I don’t recall ever seeing a second grove and ring to retain the tone ring...