So a pattern is now repeating in my life:

I have old machines: terminally rusty 94 Toyota 4x4, 79 F250 work truck, 86 Honda cb450…I am not a mechanic, but I’m handy and I have access to mechanic...

The rubber part of the magnetic clutch at the front of my 12 tacoma a/c compressor (2.7…but) has failed loudly a few times now.
To keep it from trying to engage, I remove the “MAG CLUTCH” relay...

Nope.
I would be surprised if his had the same 2 piece fiberglass hardtop. I’ve never seen another like it. It’s how I knew for sure this was the exact same one and not just a lookalike.

He won’t discuss it. He literally walked away from me.

I stopped to get a shot of this rig I owned 26/27 years ago. It’s a yard runner at a towing yard now. I had spotted it back there a while ago, but hadn’t been up close.

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I loved that lil...

Friggin danny noonan sniping me over here

The passenger compartment is low on pot smoke

We just drive them with rust in Michigan.

No disrespect, srsly, but that kind of a little spot is nothing to worry about.

Yes, I lost a shim in the grass yesterday and 10 minutes of that 20 minute job was wanding around in the grass with a powerful magnet to recover that little fucker.

If your Tacoma A/C starts squealing like a banshee and stops and the A/C light flashes, it may well be the "clutch hub" at the front of the compressor.

The inner ring is connected to the outer...

I was planning on scamming him, but he says "no scammers" in the ad.
bummed.

Well, the connections at the floor switch looked like dog shit. Cleaned and greased everything up and it all works like it should now.
No big deal sorting shit out here on a sunny day at 45-50...

Hello geniuses.

Looking for any special insight into this one:

79 ford truck:
originally: headlights would not come on for a minute or so after pulling the switch. Then they just wouldn't...

Sharing a lil bit of new wisdom:
My plow pump finally failed to raise the blade. After a fair amount of fucking around I suspected it was ice in the fluid clogging the filter. Heated it up with a...

It’s not rocket surgery, push all the air through while keeping the res full. I run my tubing uphill to the catch jug and push fluid through until there’s good-looking fluid coming through and no...

Don’t strip that slave bleeder!!!!
Careful!

Call me stupid, but for bleeding I just run tube up to a 2 liter on a motorcycle stool and push a lot of fluid through with the bleeder staying open...adding plenty at the master reservoir as I go....

Yes. I run this in my 79 Ford.

I'd jack it and spin the wheels 1st thing in the morning and see what you hear.

I mean the truck, not your standard everyday jacking it in the morning.

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Fwiw I’d be paying a pro at that stage too.

Here’s hoping it goes well.

I hang out with a mechanic friend in rusty, rusty, rusty Michigan. I watch him undo rusty stuff a lot. Getting things red hot, hot enough to vigorously expand and contract metals at different rates,...

are you **sure** it didn't lose the electrode and insulator when it was dropped twice?

Because maybe there wasn't anything in your cylinder ever....and all you have to do is just thread a new...

I don't know, that boroscope rental is a chunk of money, maybe you could offset the cost by performing a self colonoscopy and billing your insurance.

having to smog it sort of complicates things....you're not going to be dragging ass around down one cylinder chugging oil (like my truck) if you have to run it through smog.

anyway, don't lose...

I don't know man, maybe it's fine....those are little pieces, it may have coughed that shit right out of the exhaust valve or crunched it all up into dust....it's not inconceivable. I wouldn't write...

You may be able to get a telescopic magnet in there and wand around to see if there are any chunks....that shit's probably long gone though.

Ford triton?

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Took some of those horrible rotor retention screws out this evening...here’s how I do it. Nothing fancy.

Do you have a detroit or spool in your front diff?

If not, and if you’re running it with the rear shaft removed, you really shouldn’t have any binding at all.

I bought a group 31 commercial battery, like the ones in our bus fleet, as a second battery in the plow truck this year. If you ever replace one, look into stuffing a giant bus battery in it. I can...

There's no "should" about it. It works, I've done it enough that saying I’ve done it "many times” isn't egregious. Pretty much every time a 4x4 I've had needs rear ujoints I end up driving it around...

my move is pull the shaft, then drive the 4x4 around town in front wheel drive. winning!

Last two times I compromised by bringing the parts and the removed shaft to a shop. Totally worth the $20 or $30 or whatever...

I guess that's not really the point of this thread though. "just...

Also of use: heat that bitch up until it's red hot, then touch an ice cube to it for awhile. Do that a few rounds and pound the shit out of it. You can always drill the head off, because as said...

You don't need to reinstall the little rotor retention screw. That's just a manufacturing artifact. Robots have an easier time assembling the thing with that JIS screw. It's fine without it. It's...

petcock plus those worn out "female parts".

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I’m like the bobby stainless of dangerously-rusty heaps.

Yeah, I have a mechanic friend who buzzed a muffler onto the truck for me last month. He drove it from my place to the shop and heard the chain rattle and told me I'd need to eventually replace the...

The agony of defeat.

Spent 9 hours going into my 22re to replace the plastic timing chain guide. Put it all back together and it's just flowing coolant out the passenger side.
Did it again in 3...

Yes, exactly....same here with two failures in less than a year. Second one I took extra caution to rubber mount it thinking that was the issue with the first. It seems like there's a market for...

I wonder if you may need to d/c the battery for a bit and let it rethink things with the new switch?

My 79 F250 now has an old western straight blade plow.

I was unable to find a proper carriage for it, so everything on the truck side had to be fabricated from other pieces.

I don't have...

I have that on my older F250...makes the fronts straight with no arch. Totally good, but it stiffens the ride up a lot....be ready for that.

that scissor action frontend is awful. I can see how they ran that on the 1/2 ton, but to put that on a 3/4 ton was ridiculous.

I spent a lot of time last weekend being "helper boy" for an actual professional mechanic in an actual professional shop. I was shocked how good he was at dealing with rust and stuck hardware. This...

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fast and furious!

+ a gigantic breaker bar. lol.

bad news: 5 month old Champion aluminum radiator already leaking.

good news: warranty was shockingly easy, "we have your info, we'll get one shipped today."

The cynic in me wonders if they've...