Made some time to work on the critter today but had to make room to work on it, too. No pictures of this mess - I'm no carpenter - but I rough cut some 4x4 blocks and bored a shallow hole in them to raise my work table up about 3" so the generator could get stashed under it, along with the gas cans. Pressure washer already fit under it, and the weed whacker behind it. Had to shove a few misc. parts still in boxes around but finally had some room to work.
Since the u-bolts were a little bit too long for the socket, I death-wheeled about 3/4" off each one.
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Man, I'm glad I went ahead and splurged for the new angle grinder when I did the drop job. Blade guard sure is nice, plus being able to change the wheel out without a fight. My old grinder sucks.
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Got 'em all torqued down to 110, and took this pic as a reminder to re-torque then in another 500 miles, at 161093. A couple of them were scary loose, which easily explains how squirrelly the truck was. Drove it around the neighborhood, up to 50mph or so on the big road, feels pretty solid. Also kicked all the tires up to 60psi; haven't decided what pressure I'm gonna settle on though.
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Small details, that rusty sludge had really stained the coolant reservoir from when the PO was running straight water. Made it hard to tell where the level was. I took the reservoir off and filled it about 1" with white vinegar, and used an old piece of sponge ziptied to a socket extension to scrub the stains out; worked great. As far as the leak at the radiator neck, no big surprise. Popped the hose off and noticed the hose nipple had been smushed kind of square-shaped, so the hose couldn't seal. Gently used a punch to tap it back round and cut a little off the end of the hose, stuck it back on.
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Then dumbass me went and did the yardwork. It's hot and ridiculous humid today. It even rained on me for a couple brief moments then full sunlight came right back out to make things super steamy.
Richard