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It is sad of course, I want to know what a 72 year old was doing removing a tranny by himself anyway ?
The same reason I do all my own work
a side note the article said he was working on the trans? why are the front wheels off
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picked up a badlands 12.000 lb winch at harbor frieght on sale for $299.00, if it only gets me unstuck once out in the desert
it's paid for itself
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any reports on them lately, I know they have gotten some pretty bad reports in the past
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it could also be the cvr if those are the only 2 gauges and the rest are idiot lights
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Getting ol red ready for a 4 day desert run going out to the Blythe area an look for geodes and other gem stones, an if it gets too hot I'll hit the river and hunt for carp with the bow
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my 88 is a auto my 94 is a 5 speed love them both, but when I do the 3.3 swap for the 88 it will probably turn into a 5 speed
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We'll be coming through in April or May. 70 to Grand Junction to Pueblo then south east into OK then TX west into NM AZ and home
Probably in the 94 better milage then the 88
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the OLs 94 will not slide forward when the back is tipped
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they slide, also if you wire in the window controls use the back window switch for the drivers door the passenger side will work fine for the passenger door
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I'll stick with my warns over autos any day
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pull the carpet back and youll see the plate above the fuelpump/sender, be careful removing the fuel lines there may be pressure in them.
if you need to completely remove it there is a multi plug inside of the rr tire area
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mmmmmmmmmmm only about 30 miles away
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Not quite, it's in the mountain range between Trabuco Hills and Corona. So it takes you up to the mountain range most of Orange County sees, where a fire lookout once was, and where most of the radio and cell phone towers sit. Really nice drive actually, though they close the road every time it rains.
or fires, we live on the riverside side just off the 74
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the pilot bushing should only make noise if the clutch is disengaged an and the tranny is in gear, or clutch is engaged and tranny is in neutral. otherwise it should be turning with the input shaft
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Where is main divide? Is that azusa canyon?
Main divide starts a little above Fallbrook and if all the gates are open will end at the 91,
you can hit it either way from the Ortega highway
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first thing I'd check is the coax, are you running rg 58 or rg8 ?
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Finally got all the bushings and pins for the spare tire carrier on Mamas 94 pathy, spent probably a total of 4 1/2 hrs on the damn thing
but it's quiet now
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Pulled the spare tire carrier off the 94, spent about 45 minutes trying to drive the pins out (yes I ground the one end off)
When I did my 88 a couple of years ago the whole thing only took about an hour (sure love Calif cars) the 94 slowly migrated from the midwest to Idaho where I bought it 4 years ago.
Soaking it with PB Blaster and will try again tomorrow might have to break out the torch on this one
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it was 90 f here today
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I used to run firestick fiberglass whips, I prefer the one's that you remove the rubber cap and can adjust them with an allen wrench.
yeah that's a lot easier then trimming the coil on the antenna
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nope they were both on the back bumper, it was kind of a popular set up back in the early 70s, at least in socal -
They usually recommend using 18' of coax but this is debated often, using the right coax is more important than the length, the right coax for a single antenna would be RG58 or RG8x ( which is better), for two antennas RG59/U would be used.
Two antennas should not be installed on our trucks, they are designed for semi sized trucks and should be a minimum of 12' apart. The reason semi's run twin antennas is the reception pattern from twin antennas is better forward and backwards than side to side, most truckers are more concerned with what is going on ahead and behind them. than from the sides.
If you have excess coax you should bundle it together in a coil no less than 12", tie wrap each end and tuck it out of the way.
If the SWR's are high on all channels it may be from a lack of a good ground plane, this may occur if the antenna is mounted on a spare tire carrier among other area's that do not have a good ground connection to the body, a wire can be run from the mount to the frame to help in grounding the antenna.
The 102" whips are designed to be installed with a spring.
I prefer a base load coil antenna and use Wilson brand antennas (Wilson 1000), everyone has their favorite. I like the base load antennas as you only have a thin whip compared to a fiberglass or a metal whip, the thin whip will bend when it hits tree branches, etc. and is also removable when you don't need/want the whip installed ( Wilson gives you a cap with the antenna to cover the threaded mount)
Magnet mount Wilson antennas work fine, I prefer the perm. mount but a hole would need to be drilled, ideal location is in the center of the roof, this gives a unidirectional pattern. An antenna is directional to the opposite directions that it is mounted, for example an antenna on the pass/ rear is more directional to the front left..
You can have the best CB and a crap antenna and you will not get out or receive well, but a good antenna will make a crap CB work just fine.
Where did you check your SWR's? You should be in an open parking lot or similar area with no over head wires, doors of the truck closed.
When you key the mic and the swr reading is high, are you parked or moving? What meter are you using to check the SWR?
I would also check the ends of the coax cable, what brand of cable are you using? If from Radio Shack I would recommend checking in a truck shop or a CB store if there is one around and try to find the grey RG8X cable, much better than the Radio Shack coax which they usually just crimp the ends on too.
I'll have to agree with almost all of that except for the dual antennas or as we called them co-phased
I was running 108 fiberglass whips on my wife's ford maverick and the match was 1.2 to 1 with the Palomar off, with it on the match went up a little but the 60 watts sure made it talk.
Roof mounts we would drill the hole above the dome light and run the coax between the roof and headliner.
On my pathy I'm using a mirror mount on the spare tire carrier and a 4 ft firestick they're easy to tune if you know what to do
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well it's getting cold here at 4:50 pm it's already down to 73 f
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Pulled the gears from my parts engine and installed them on the 88 with a new round tooth timing belt, was getting tired of changing it every 60.000 miles
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1987 D21 Pickup
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for future reference use a wedge between the chain and the tensioner after bringing it up on tdc, then you can remove the cam gear
and just drop the chain down, after the heads off there is a bracket you can mount to the block and install the cam gear and chain so you can turn the engine over.
My first pathy was a z24 what a dog but it was cheap