I haven't posted it in this thread, yet, but I fixed the coolant leaks a couple weeks ago. Considering my last update was in September it obviously took longer than expected, haha.
Here's what I replaced on it:
- metal lower intake gaskets
- valve cover gaskets
- thermostat
- lower intake bolts
- upper intake bolts
- upper intake gasket
- cap and rotor
- battery
- mpfi injection
- belt
I also painted the valve covers yellow. I've put about 400-500 miles on the truck so far, and it seems to be doing great.
I was able to put my truck on a rack at school a couple times this week. The first time I was looking at suspension components and leaks, and the second time I looked at brakes.
I'll be needing all four ball joints, the lower on the passenger side is leaking pretty bad. I didn't think the rest looked that bad, but my buddy said all four were bad, plus I wasn't just going to to one lower. I'll be doing them in pairs.
There are also some leaks I'd like to address
This is the front diff, it looks like the cover gasket may be leaking, but it looks like there's another leak where the axle(?) meets the the diff, anyone know what that could be? It'd be the top left of the picture
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This is where the front drive shaft meets the differential. Would that be a pinion seal?
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This is where the rear driveshaft meets the transfer case.
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Then the rear pinion seal
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They won't all be done right now, there are other priorities, but I think I'll do the front differential before winter.
As for the brakes, I got pretty lucky. Nearly everything measured to be brand new, the only thing that didn't was the front passenger side pad, which was about a 5mm opposed to the 10 on the other side. My teacher thinks the sliding portion of the caliper maybe dirty, keeping it from having full movement. So, I'll probably just pad slap it and see why the one side is wearing faster, and call it a day.
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