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^^ I'll have what he's having. Feel free to come by and give my rig the same service.Shelby427 said:Let's see, changed the fluid in both diffs, ditto the T case, flushed the rad/cooling system, still have to remove the flush and put coolant in it tomorrow. Oh and installed a aux trans cooler. Which meant yanking the rad, slipping back the condenser, removing the center support, fabbing brackets, and plumbing it all up. While I was in there I added a screen behind the grill to help protect the vitals.
Let's see, changed the fluid in both diffs, ditto the T case, flushed the rad/cooling system, still have to remove the flush and put coolant in it tomorrow. Oh and installed a aux trans cooler. Which meant yanking the rad, slipping back the condenser, removing the center support, fabbing brackets, and plumbing it all up. While I was in there I added a screen behind the grill to help protect the vitals.
Pssshhh, is that all you did? Slacker!!!! :rofl:Today was an average day. Working on the wife's rig testing a HD fan clutch and 7 blade fan so I swapped in the HD clutch. Noticed a small bit of oil seepage, so I tightened up all the oil pan bolts which then led to noticing some weeping at the trans pan.
Trans pan bolts were all loose due to the crap felt style gasket I used, so I went to drop the belly skid which is a raised style from Currie so I could access the back bolts on the pan.
One bolt spun a nutsert off in the frame, the other 5 came out fine. Neither flat head allen holding the trans mount to the skid would turn, so I had to weld hex nuts to them to get them out. After that, I holesawed a 2" hole to access the top of the nutsert that spun, reached in with some Kroil and needle nose vise grips and got the piece to release its death grip on the bolt.
Now the skid is finally removed, fix the pan bolts, swap in a new trans mount, clean everything up and then made a nut plate for the frame mess. Welded it inside the frame, patched the hole back in good as new and then reinstalled the belly skid. All that was after putting on a new Currie trackbar which required removal of the old one, 1 lower control arm and the driver side spring so I could do some work to the mount. Got that all fixed and then rotated the tires.
By then it was lunch time and after lunch we tackled dialing in the Fox Shocks on the 04 which consisted of pulling springs and what not to get full extended lengths, full compressed lengths and bumpstop heights.
All in all, an easy day.