Recent content by Jon Wildsmith

Dirko is good stuff and a lot cheaper than that!

I've seen similar designs where the L brackets wrap around the outside of the chassis on the forward most set of holes, sort of holding the long bracket on, spreading the load along a longer section of chassis?

Does sound like an earth problem. Were any junction blocks disturbed for the welding e.g. in the passenger foot well there's a junction block in the kick panel and I *think* one or more of the mounting bolts provides an earth point for that junction block. There's another one on the drivers side...

How long have you had it? Has it always done this or is a recent thing? Asking how long you owned it in case a previous owner has done the temperature gauge modification that takes away the dead zone and means the needle does move up a bit when the engine is under load.

Looks like you have a rear locker and the locking dog has dropped when the axle shaft was pulled out (common). Next time you take the short / drivers shaft out, lock the rear diff first. This time, remove the cover on the side of the diff that has the ball switch locking sensor on it and see if...

Sorry to have missed it. We were packed and ready to go until I saw a puddle of atf under the 80 :anguished: Don't think it's terminal, but I'll post about that in another thread when it's sorted one way or another.

Just adding to this that I bought a new fan from Amayama part # 16361-17010 (a yellow dot fan) and part # 16361-17030 (a blue dot fan). The yellow dot is what toyodiy list for my VIN, but roughtrax list the blue dot as being the correct replacement. Comparing sizes, my original is definitely a...

RM184E which is the first 80 series FSM from 1990 covers cruise control in the Body Electrical section (BE103). It tells you how to get a fault code from the CC ECU. It's not clear if it's talking about cable drive speedo's or not though. There's talk of a speed sensor and in the picture of...

Sometimes the fault is in the wires to the sensors. What codes are you getting? If you're getting codes for both then it's probably a wiring problem not the sensors. The sensors are old fashioned passive hall effect devices on an 80. There should be continuity between the two terminals of each...

No experience of the cable driven speedo cruise control setup unfortunately.

Thin but tough seems better than thick? It will fail eventually, and thick stuff seems to hide the rust for longer than thin, so you don't know until it's become a bigger problem?

Does it go around corners ok? No feeling of wind up or squealing tyres? If your truck has the viscous coupling, that's another thing that can bind, and cause juddering. Is it in bits at a garage in Edenbridge, or you just don't keep it at home? If the front diff is out of the truck I'm just...

I did it last time you asked too :)

I've never read of the outer pinion bearing race spinning on an 80 series diff. Could what you're describing as judder be another mans wobble? aka death wobble if you google it? That can be intermittent / go away for a while if you slow down / stop. Where about in the south east are you? Maybe...

I think the blind was part of the cold climate spec, along with the 24v start. I've read of people putting a tarp or similar over the front for water crossings if they haven't got a snorkel, to increase the bow wave, so the blind might achieve something similar. This water was too deep, flowing...