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 A Jeep sandwich and your the cheese!!!

Sure looks warm, glad to see the b400000000 still kickin love the wheels. How are those manual hubs holding up?



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 LOL, it was a Jeep sandwich the whole day. 

I am very much appreciating the manual hubs. Fixing the vacuum system was going to be a total PITA, but these were so easy to pop on and fixed my issue. I have had them off road now twice, and both times, my 4x4 worked perfect.



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 an album of more pictures from today:
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had a friend park next to me at work today. (didn't meet them, will have to try to find them next time).



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 My wife spent all week loading stuff to get rid of into the back of the truck, saturday morning early was time to take it to the dump:


Hard to tell, but I can see the back was sagging low. Over 600lbs went to the dump, a lot of it was the left over tile from when the previous owners "remodeled" the house, It's ugly and terrible and I'm going to be redoing the floors in a couple of years, so I was happy to throw away this stuff. It was 5 different colors and styles. (we got some ugly ass floors in our house).



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 In the 113° heat yesterday, my A/C compressor decided to kill itself  :fp

So had to order parts. will install myself, and then take to my mechanic to get charged... Sucks, still almost 110 this week. at least I'm not having to commute.



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 Finally got my A/C fixed! I know that probably wouldn't excite most of you this time of year, but it was still 103° today, so yeah, still need A/C.



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 Well, for a family drama thing, drove up from PHX to SLC area today. Trip was pretty good but had one breakdown, the tensioner pully bearing locked up and destroyed itself. I didn't notice right away, but the battery light came on, and my steering got really heavy. Popped the hood and it took me a solid 30 seconds to figure out my belt wasn't moving. 

I was 15 miles from the nearest town with a shop open today, so I started it up, and got up to speed as fast as I could, then tossed it into neutral and shut it off, and coasted down the hills, and then would start it up, get back into drive and do it over again. Why? so I could move without overheating the engine. and I made it, it took me an hour to go 15 miles, because I did have to stop a few times and let it cool down, but I made it and they were able to swap out the pully for me at the shop. Why didn't I wait for a tow? because the soonest they could get me one was 3+ hours. The break down + repair turned my should have been 10 hour trip into a solid 12 hours. 












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 Took my son camping last weekend. 

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Washed it for the first time in a LONG time.

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 Ditched my Milestars. too aggressive for daily use. 



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 Got home from work on Friday, and smelled raw gas coming out from under the hood of my truck, took it to the shop this morning since I just don't have the time or desire to work on it myself, and the #1 and #6 injectors are “pissing” fuel. That would explain the hard starts, and fuel smell. $905 for all 6 to be replaced and a new intake plenum gasket. 

I'm just annoyed because I replaced the valve cover gaskets last year, if I had only known



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 Got back from the shop. OMG, what a difference, engine ran smoother, accelerated more smoothly. I don't feel like I will have more power, but maybe I'll get better than 14mpg...



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 aroundincircles wrote:



This popped up on my subscription feed today.  How did you get the broken bolt out of the bracket?



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This popped up on my subscription feed today.  How did you get the broken bolt out of the bracket?
I didn't... not yet. I only put about 10 miles a week on it at most right now (work from home, usually if I have to take a kid to an activity). so I was going to wait till my friend was available to help me. He's a pro mechanic, but works over road, working on construction equipment (I pay him for his time). so he's really good at this kind of stuff, since he deals with similar crap all the time. But it's holding tight and the belt isn't going anywhere, and that broken bolt sticks up far enough, while it doesn't provide any clamping force, it does keep it square.



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 File or grind the top of the bolt flat. Use a center punch to put a divot  in the center of the bolt. Soak in penetrating oil. If you don't have an EZ Out, the IRWIN Screw Extractor set is a good set. Select the largest EZ Out that will fit within the broken bolt and drill a hole at the divot for about a half inch. Insert EZ Out and use a Tap wrench to screw it in.  That would be the direction of removing the bolt as the screw extractor will bite into the broken screw. Even cross threaded the broken bolt should come out. Once it is out use a Helicoil or Time-sert kit to put the threads back in.

Where this can go sideways is that the screw extractor brakes so you have a hardened steel core in the broken bolt. A broken bolt always makes for a bad day.

Another method is to take a nut that has the same thread pitch and screw it onto the bolt until the broken part starts to stick through. Weld up the top of the nut. Put a piece of ice on the top of the nut to temper the weld. A socket and breaker bar can be used to remove the broken bolt then it is Helicoil time.

The method I used to get a broken exhaust bolt out of a head: The EZ Out pulled part of the broken bolt out but the bolt broke a second time where it was too deep to use an EZ OUT. I pulled both heads and carried them to a machine shop to get them worked. I was quoted $1200 for the work when my buddy that owned the machine shop suggested a set of Dart Aluminum heads. The Dart heads would flow better than worked iron heads for $650.



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 The weld method is what I was planning on. The bolt is pretty cross threaded, so I don't think an easy out or extractor will work, and there is enough thread that a bolt could be welded on. I just don't have a welder, so waiting for my friend to come back in town in a couple of weeks to be able to use his. In the past I would just use my dad's, but they moved to a town house last year, and never set up power for a welder, and then promptly moved out of state for a church mission for a couple of years. My current house has had two additions done to it, and I had an electrician out to see what it would take to run power for one here and he just laughed at me, since the whole house would basically have to be rewired.... (rooms on opposite ends of the house are run together, and stuff, it's pretty crazy).



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Bought my truck just over 6 years ago to help move my family as a cheap temporary vehicle, but fell in love, and 6 years later we're back at it again.



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 Still have it, Haven't had time to fix it. I have about 1000 other projects going on. My brother used a shop in town he really recommended, they gave me a decent quote to do the head gasket and make sure nothing else is broken. I'll be happy to be in my little truck again. I love my F-150, but it's just so big, running small errands in it is a joke. 



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