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4-2-2013
woo my alternator finally died! (sarcasm.)
I figured it was because my power steering pump was leaking onto it. I bought a rebuild kit from Toyota like 6 months ago.. and never felt the need to actually rebuild it.. until my alternator died. After spending an hour dumping degreaser into the alternator and forcing the pressure washer in there praying to fix it.. i accepted alternator defeat. Took it out and sent to my dad's buddy's place to get it rebuilt. Offered to vAMP (heheh) it up to 160 AMP for 130 bucks out the door. SO i took it apart, verified to brushes were worn to nothing, and gave the whole thing to him. Spent a good chunk of Saturday stumbling through an exploded view of the PS pump trying to match new o-rings to 25- year old o-rings that had turned square...
and finished early Sunday cause i got mad saturday and resorted to beer :p
Moral of the story.. or Morals...
new Alternator = holy crap I love my headlights
new PS pump = no more complaining about someone using PS fluid instead of DexronII/III ATF causing it to leak.
Optima battery that's been in the truck longer than I've owned it = capable of driving the truck for 3 days with the weakest/almost non existent alternator and still passing a load test after charging.
5-19-2013
long time no post but my buddy has an almost complete axle w/ highsteer sitting in his backyard. Suddenly I'm trying to save up 1300 -_- this is not good.
5-21-2013
During my last offroad adventure.. I took a detour to get home as fast as possible once it got dark. Jacked the paint up pretty good...
for a couple of weeks i was basically in a state of melancholy.. if I used that word right.
Well a guy at my dad's work wanted to give it a once over for cheap and I figured, why not. I'm more than pleased
