NW WA Meet / BS Thread

It looks like like they sell is separately also, as well as a longer one.
https://thewaterport.com/product/8ft-hose/

 

Noted. Our dog chewed up the OG one. I bought a regular ol 6’ garden hose. I ran around to Home Depo and Lowe’s looking for a short coiling hose and didn’t have any luck. I bought mine a long time ago when they were doing group buys in the Facebook groups. They are a good little unit. I forgot to drain mine last year and it froze solid by the time I thought about it. It thawed out and still works flawlessly.

 

You could get a longer coiled hose and cut it to the length you want and use a hose repair kit to add the end connector back. The waterport accessory prices and shipping are a little high.

 

Now that I have OBA I don’t have to be so stingy about turning it on and pressuring the hose for a little squirt here and there so a longer hose wouldn’t be that bad. I used to use a little cheesy bicycle hand pump, crawl up in my canopy and pump it up, which I’m hear to tell you is fucken lame.

 

Speaking of bed mounted utility. I need to mount my quick fist and the t-nuts I got are a wider pitch than the quick fist. Debating just drilling into the quick fist to match the diameter or just getting the right ones lol. What did you use to mount your quick fist?

 

Made a couple brackets out of aluminum.

 

You can shove a bigger bolt through with a little elbow grease, I’ve also drilled them out a little with no issues

 

Sweet I will probably just try this first although the size difference is considerable here lol...

Another note curious if anyone has had a slow slow trickle leak from a bad axle seal placement, huge improvement from when it poured all over my driveway but now it is leaking to the point where it will never even drip just accumulate and dry up on the differential housing. Anyone encountered this? Only curious how long I can wait before I have to do the job again lol not that it is super difficult just tedious to do it a third time.

 

It probably slowed down to a trickle because it’s getting lower on fluid. It’s not like it’s gonna magically heal on its own.

 

Hill People Gear has this...
https://hillpeoplegear.com/Products?SearchValue=SAR+rescue
And these guys have good stuff (one of my boys was involved in SAR awhile back)
https://www.coaxsher.com/Search-and-Rescue-Packs-s/36.htm

These guys are well known in the SAR world as well.....
http://www.carletonrescue.com/shop/

 

so I replaced the seal and filled her back up. Kept it in the garage for a few hours and no leak. When I went for a drive and came back I noticed this slowed trickle. Also confirmed by removing the fill plug that it’s still full

 

This is the amount leaking you can see the droplet formed but never drips. Cleaned it up last night hence the whole input looking clean.

 

Recommendations for fall colors viewing spots?

 

North Cascade pass.

 

What size axle tubes do we have?

 

hwy 101 maybe

 

so I guess the seal that looked in harmed from a few attempts to reset was actually punctured or something. New seal same strategy no leak so far...


Now there was a strange noise in 4wd of which I disengaged immediately so will follow up on that thing. Next thing I am probably doing is a drive shaft balance to try to combat the vibes I have been fighting for almost 2 years now lol

 

Is it not normal to have strange noises and vibrations coming from the front end?

 

Its nice to know im not the only one whose given up

 

Lol I did until my CV exploded on me and then I got back into the groove of trying to fix my vibes. Need to try and forget it again lol. Though if I balance the shaft I have literally done everything that could cause vibrations on my truck.

-rear ended. No vibes yet
- new suspension (when it started 2018)
- Sway bar remover
- new tires
- sway bar added back and back out after confirming not the cause
- attempt to swap in stock tires to see if vibes go away (diminished but wasn’t gone)
- balance, road force balance and balance again lol.
- shims
-carrier bearing
- cattier bearing drop
- diff drop (removes since)
- u joints
- all new brakes, caliper rotors and drums (for other reasons but still hopeful)
- cv (as they exploded was also still hopeful)
- heavy duty leafs (needed anyways)
- also have removed my rear bumper and drove without it. Tightened front ARB.

If you add up all the time that I was actually focused on this issue. Probably could have done many things to this truck lol. Essentially all new front end.

If driveline doesn’t fix it it is possible that the tires are no good as there was slight improvement when I swapped them out. Or, Toyota’s go-away statement of bumpers and all that + being rear ended (frame still in spec) is the cause.