FoPAR
Burning Money & Metal
Well it's been a while and not much to report on the project. My wife had a landscape project and we got to work on getting the garden going to. So not much time or energy left over for the trucks. Yesterday & today were the first days that I was able to do anything on them in a long time. The work truck has been leaking power steering fluid and the brakes had a really bad fade when stopping so I got to work on it to clean up the engine bay and fix the problems.
Engine bay when I got the truck:
Started the tear down, degreased, scrubbed and cleaned everything:
Then found the problem with the power steering and fixed it and the brake fade was being caused by someone putting in the wrong rubber diaphragm in the cap so it wasn't sealing between the two reservoirs, as soon as I put the correct one in, it held with no fade at all. I then got to work priming and painting the engine and everything.
Started getting it put back together:
I had to call it a night so I will finish it up tomorrow, but starting to look a lot better.
Engine bay when I got the truck:
Started the tear down, degreased, scrubbed and cleaned everything:
Then found the problem with the power steering and fixed it and the brake fade was being caused by someone putting in the wrong rubber diaphragm in the cap so it wasn't sealing between the two reservoirs, as soon as I put the correct one in, it held with no fade at all. I then got to work priming and painting the engine and everything.
Started getting it put back together:
I had to call it a night so I will finish it up tomorrow, but starting to look a lot better.
