Well, I just got done with a tear down and inspection on the rig.
Turns out that the rear upper pinion bearing was starting to make some noise. Pretty sure that I hosed it when the inner seal in the Diamond let lose last month in Moab. This is the first chance I've had to get it up on the rack to take a look at everything really close.
While I was at it, the reduction portion of the crawl has had a crack in it since I installed it just above one of the bolt holes. One of those that you can't see when building it, but gear oil will seep through. :shaking: I have been band-aiding it long enough. Its just a very minor bleed type of leak, but I wanted it gone. So, I built a new crawl box for it.
The adapter and guts will end up in Hunter's rig anyway, so no loss there.
I have a few other projects I need to get handled on it as well over the next few days/weeks.
1. An actual gas gauge. (I still cannot get the factory gauge to work at all)
So, I ordered a Autometer for the Ford tank. I will still need to pull the sending unit and move the float arm back into the stock location.
2. Wire up the Air/Fuel gauge. The O2 is already in the exhaust, but it needs to be wired in still.
3. Swap back on the stock supercharger pulley. The 2.2 boosts too much/fast for DD use IMO.
4. A tire carrier of some sort. Its likely just going to be a hitch mounted version that I can leave in camp.
I am really wanting to get out to CA this year to run either Rubicon or Dusy. We'll see how it all goes at this point.
A truck like that should only be Raffled off. $100 tickets sell them for 3 months promote it on all the forums and facebook. bet it wouldn't be hard to sell 205 raffle tickets. I'll take 2!:thumb3:
