When I did the fuel pumps in my '94 F-150 I dropped the tanks. Getting them out wasn't bad, but getting 'em back in was a total PITA especially the rear. I swore if I ever had to do that again I would just pull the bed. It would be way less work, and frustration.
I have no compunction with cutting holes in the floor for access to fuel sender and pump units. I've done it to at least half my sboxes.
My 1999 Z28 got the hole cut treatment, but oddly my 1999 Buick park avenue had an access panel. My 2001 Firebird had the same engine as the park ave but also needed to be cut.
Your rigs look a little better than mine.
Where did you see it?
I'm sentimental about my tools. I have tools from my father and grandfather. That's how I end up with so many. At one time we all had working sets of tools. I'm sorting through it all now. I've cut back. I tried something a couple months ago and it seems to be working. I cut back to the bare essentials. That way I don't have 15 different 1/2" wrenches. I only have what I would use. This makes it easier to put them away. Easier to find them when I go to the box. And finally it makes it more important to keep track of them because I don't have all of the spares sitting right next to where the other one was. It makes it more important to make sure to put the tools away when the job is over.Damn, leave some hammers for the rest of us!
My fathers old '67 Datsun pickup had a hinged access panel in the bed, made getting to the fuel sender dead easy. My '95 Dakota you either needed to drop the tank, or pull the bed. When I had to replace that part, I was working at the auto electrician and had access to lifts so it was easy to drop the tank when lifting the whole truck. Another friend used a tractor to pull the bed on his.
After two back surgeries, I am pretty careful to leave that stuff to the younger folk.
That makes my mouth hurt. I remember getting my teeth drilled with that kind of device in preparation for a filling when I was a kid. When they developed the higher speed dental drills it was a revelation.
found an old dentists drill at a garage sale, and seeing as I like old tools, this should work perfectly in my space. I will need to put a longer cord on it though.
Vanagon has one of the best suspensions I've driven for washboard--but I didn't go up that way, as there was one hell of a storm brewing and that road is heavily forested. I didn't bring a chainsaw.
Gotta keep an eye on the shock temperature if you're doing that. I once blew a shock while doing about 55 on a bad dirt road. It overheated and blew the side out. Handling kinda' changes when you suddenly have three shocks. The other shocks were too hot to touch.
Yep!
We can only hope. I'd have to guess about an inch in fifteen minutes--the parking lot and that back area are flooded. Of course, it came with lightning, so the main question is, can it put out the fires it just started?
My old Grand Cherokee is the furthest thing from a well tuned suspension but for some reason it’s as smooth as glass on a road that makes my truck and my car hover at anything above 35. I think it’s actually the tire size and wheel base that make the difference.
Started working on the revised wiring harness.
Removed the 700R4 torque converter lockup power. Removed the Neutral Safety Switch. Reworking the connectors to the steering column.
