thspittingllama

tried to get the full run of the exhaust for ya. and a pic of my new rear diff in.

thspittingllama

got some new stuff to add to the build. looks like a good spot for my new switches, and clineometer

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the hole wasnt quite big enuff so i cut with a knife! lol seems to fit well though. then i cut the cover plate in half and put it back in. now i just have to clean the glue from my old velcro for the stereo remote.

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current dash configuration, i also added a fun shifter knob. then i took her out campin and wheelin. and after only a few hours on saturday the cheap idler arm i got from checkers just three months ago broke in half. it was great! luckily it has a waranty and a checkers wasnt to far away. got i swaped out first thing sunday morning and was right back to it.

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is there still people on this site?

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cut out all of my old purple tint tonight and got the back two windows done. it will take a few days to do all of it. i'll post pics tomorrow.

86bedlesstoy

Good luck on the build.. Looking go so far. I need to do a Idler Arm replacement as well.. Getting that nice POPPING when I turn at a dead stop or cruising..

rustED

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Your build is coming along good, you're making a lot of progress!.... What's the deal with purple tint anyway? Was it ever in style, LOL.

thspittingllama

Im not sure. that was done by the PO. maybe at one time it was black and just faded? idk but Im glad its gone.

Diablo22RE

I want an exhaust now. I bet that thing sounds real purty.

thspittingllama

thanks! and it does sound good. a little on the rice burner side though. what do you expect from a 4 cyl? hopefully soon i will have some videos for you guys of the truck out playing. nothing of great quality. i just need to upload them on to youtube first.

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This is from my trip over memorial day weekend.... oh and ps i got my lights mounted FINALLY! there are only two up top now, the middle one is a marine speaker that my dad used to have on his blazer. i was thinking of wiring it up to a P.A.

Got my 4banger to the top of little Sahara.. only took all day to find a route! lol


I started with one flag but decided to start collecting all of the broken ones i found in the sand, a few were again lost on some whoops along the way though.

and yup i went though most of those dunes in the back ground! lol total 2 day trip i did 94 miles in the sand without getting stuck once! I sure love my truck

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so my AC decided to stop working the other day, and its summer time! I got to get it fixed asap! so started tearing into it last night found that ther was power going to the blower motor when i turned it on so i could only assume it was the blower motor... so i tore it out.







i tried blowing it out with compressed air and plugging it back in unmounted. it would spin, but just barely. so i decided to tear it apart to see what was wrong with the motor. i cleaned it with electrical contact cleaner as i went. it was filthy, all of the dirt on the ground was from the motor!


got it apart and........ brushes are toast!! haha one is missing compleatly and the motor has been running off of the spring that goes behind the one brush, it even ate it down to about half the original size.


i found a new blower motor at o'reilys for $35, but im going to try and find new brushes at this electrical supply store tonight. maybe i can fix it for just a few dollors and some know how. trick will be to find a similar size brush with the wires coming out of it.

Outsane

nice work

http://www.4crawler.com/4x4/CheapTri...OnlineOrdering

brushes from 4Crawler

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found a place that had quite a selection of bruches in theyre show room, but they were going to be closed by the time i got of work so i ran over theyre on my lunch break. and after i spent an entire dollor.........yup just a buck

NEW BRUSHES!!!! They may be a little big but if so i will just grind/file them down a bit to fit. then all i have to do is solder them on and reassemble. $1 is way better than $35! GO KNOWLEDGE hahaha

thspittingllama

thanks for the link, always good to get a quick refresher
before diving in. i may have forgot some minor detail without it. wish i had a lathe like that guy though, instead i'll just have to use a file.

rustED

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Nice offroading pics! I've never wheeled in dunes before, looks like fun! Nice find on the brushes, you can't beat the price, I hope it works out for you and you get your AC up and working!

thspittingllama

got to workin on the truck again last night. My new brushes ended up being way to big, so i had to file them down.


the file took a while to do it, but i didnt have a bench grinder available. once they were the right size i whipped out the soldering iron

then i reassembled it and did a quick test run. i used a matching pair of pen springs to replace the broken one.

VICTORY IS MINE!!!!

Outsane

nice work!

thspittingllama

Thanks, im stoked. less money on things like this= more money for upgrades