1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

@eon_blue

I don't miss those so cal drivers

 

Hope you got a NIL deal in this one @time623

 

No spam for me lol

 

Who passes on spam musubi?!

 

Who would choose Creed over spam?

 

A real James wouldn't do that

 

I don't know if I'm ready
To be the man I have to be

 

Got bored, cut some scrap tubing





Think I'll weld them on my parts this Sunday and weld up the legs to the center tube

They'll go like this



For a clean install, I got some acorn nuts for mounting the casters with

 

I am interested in some feedback from you folks. I recently purchased a Dayco Harmonic Balancer for the truck from RockAuto. Unfortunately it came in what I would describe as unusable condition. It had obviously been dropped prior to being packaged up for shipment. I can't be certain but I think this is a drop shipment (no pun intended) directly from the manufacturer/distributor. Here are a couple of pics that show some of the damage:





To RockAuto's credit, they allowed me to return it and promptly shipped me a replacement. Unfortunately, the replacement, though not quite as bad as the first one is also damaged. And damaged in a very similar way. Here are some pics of the replacement.




I am not sure what to do here. I am guessing RockAuto will allow a return of this one too. I am curious what you all would do? Just use it as is and hope for the best? Go for another replacement and hope I get an undamaged one? Or give up on Dayco altogether, bite the bullet and go for an OEM one? With the 25% off sale going on right now, an OEM one is roughly twice the price (about $400) of the Dayco unit from RockAuto.

 

Little bit off topic, how often do you guys replace those on these trucks?

We replaced them as little as 60-80k miles on our LS motors cause they wobble like a MFer.

 

Good question. Not sure what the maintenance interval should be. I only know that mine is original at 265K miles. I am doing this as a precaution. I have not observed any wobble.

 

Yeah that don't look very harmonically balanced no more

 

Well, started a new game

 

I guess I have an excuse to get a motor stand now
(heads are cracked between the valves but the block has been machined so that's a plus).

 

Has anyone driven with leaky headers? I'm not trying to get any more brain damage..

 

yep, for many years


i know, i know… “it explains a lot”

 

Did you just open a window?

I’m honestly surprised more people don’t get CO poisoning from their cars with all the leaky shitboxes out there.

 

P0420 has entered the chat.

 

I thought that was cats. IIRC I got a P0401 when my header was cracked in my old 3RZ Tacoma.