What did you do to your truck today??

[Boog]

Ttt

[pjmoreland]

Noticed the pinion seal was leaking on my 89 K1500, so I replaced it today.

[57taskforce]

I swapped out the 16x10” Mickey Thompson classic 2’s with circa 2010 Baja atz’s, for a new set of moto metal 20x10’s with 35x12.5 Toyo MT’s on Saturday. Also changed the valve cover gaskets, oil in both diffs and the engine oil and filter. Shes getting ready to go back to daily duty next week after sitting the better part of 9 years on and off.

[pjmoreland]

My '89 K1500 has had a minor transmission fluid leak from the front of the transmission since I bought it about two years ago. The torque converter clutch started shuddering recently, so I dropped the transmission, replaced the pump seal and replaced the torque converter. It's back together. The TCC is locking solidly once again, and the dust shield is staying dry.

[pjmoreland]

My previous attempt to fix a leak on the front pump of my transmission failed. I pulled the transmission and rebuilt it over the course of this past week. Found a couple broken parts inside. I believe this is the first time this transmission has been rebuilt. It has 300,000 miles on it. Reinstalled it today and took it for a 60-mile drive with no issues.

[Boog]

Got your money's worth out of that one.

[pjmoreland]

Originally Posted by Boog

Got your money's worth out of that one.

That's for sure. I'm glad I rebuilt it when I did.

[weq92f]

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Been hunting down a hard misfire just off idle at throttle tip in either from a stop or cruising real slow. One day it happened, sounded like the thing was running on every other cylinder for just a second or so then back to normal. Since I had been adjusting and tuning the EFI parameters and hardware blade settings, I figured it was just a fuel map issue fouling plugs...something that it would "learn" to do right with time.

This kept happening...usually after a little heat soak and the frequency increased. I tested things by swapping out the throttle body EFI --I have a spare-- with all its internal sensors and the main power module for the EFI --I have a spare--. No change. The ignition box and the coil tested out good with no faults and cap/rotor has wear but not damaged. Timing was where it should be (mechanical timing).

I could reproduce the missfire(s) easily enough and while doing so had a number of back fires out exhaust and popping out of the throttle body. So decided it's not fuel/air so must be spark. Swapped out the coil with a new one and POOF! problem solved.

The multimeter on the bench with new and old coil showed the old one had more resistance across either + or - and the <output> terminal but no dead shorts or open circuits.

Fun...fun.

-Kevin