paying back a old friend

[stabworthy]

Hello everyone

6 years of ownership ,many miles and countless adventures, I figure ,with a garage and a daily driver,its time to invest time and money into my pathy. So, I can start checking items off the should do/ always wanted to do/ never knew I want to do , list. First item is to get her back on the road and legal. It had a check engine light and a miss. with no garage at the time, I drove her to my parents house for a shop full of every tool I could ever possible need and my father's car Yoda abilities. I did the screwdriver to the ear trick on the injector and # 5 didn’t sound right.i pull the top part of the intake to replace the said injector , while off I cleaned the whole induction system out with carb cleaner and elbow grease. In the process of putting everything back , I leaned too hard on the aged radiator and snap top intake spout. ( yay time for a new radiator). After installing and retrofitting around a bent a/c condenser (result of a run in with an owl at highway speed). I put it all back together.

… still a miss . I played with the spark plug wire to uncover the corrupter, this time #2 cylinder seems to be the problem. Deflated and in the middle of a move , She sat . A few weeks later I drove it back to the new place and in to the “den of doom”(girlfriend words. not mine),

where I started address some of the other less important issues, t-bar sag , strut rod bushings , rebuild hubs etc (which some im still addressing , cuz im super ADD barely have only one project going) . One day my father ,who is a professor at a community collage, called and said, his class did a tear of a vg30e and had some parts I might want. I came home with two smelly bags of parts , including a complete fuel rail, engine harness , and intake manifold.

I was able to work out a way to pull the first half of my fuel rail and make a injector tester with a injector socket and a 9volt. #2 injector was bad even thou when I listened to it before it sounded fine. I cleaned and replaced the three injector with the strongest of the 5 I had . Replaced those dumb Philips bolt with hex bolts and where she sits today

 

now i have a question for you guys. i discovered my driver side bushing cup is blown out

I know one of you welded a bearing race to the frame, was that a hard weld , or would I be better off lobing one off a junked path or pickup?

 

 

and now some pics of my work (because everyone loves pics.)

happy to find that little sticker

found this under both of my rear seats

[Nefarious]

Looking good so far. I have already done several of the exact same fixes to my rig. My tension rods and under the rear seats were identical Haha. Funny how these trucks always wear the same.

[Slartibartfast]

I wouldn't say the strut rod bearing cup thing was a hard weld but then I didn't do the actual welding. It didn't take my uncle long at all though, in fact I think it took longer to remove the bolts from the rods.

 

Mine had a bit of the same under-floor rust. We found one in a junkyard and bought a section of the floor from it, then welded it in. With a little grinding and some spray paint you can barely tell there was a problem.

 

Nice score with the teardown parts!

[stabworthy]

thanks,

i thought i was going to be much worst off when started in to project,for a 2 decades old. i made "most likley gonna have to replace" list , 3/4 of it was fine. i cant wait to get back to driving it and start on the fun stuff ( custom light bar , prerunner bumper/brush guard, rock sllders, and a few dumb add-ons). this forum has fuel a fire.

i might replace both cups with races, looks a lot more durable.