I'm sure someone here can and will correct me if I'm mistaken, but don't most service manuals call for the oil pump housing to be packed with petroleum jelly...
Just putting oil in a pump will allow it to all drain back and the pump will not create enough suction on startup to pull all the air and oil in the suction...
Lonnie & Renee' Elliott
bikegeex@...
Apr 1, 2002 1:54 pm
22878
Always try the fluid and filter change. It's cheap! If you are so inclined, pull the valve body off and clean all the parts. With the filter loose, I would...
Lonnie & Renee' Elliott
bikegeex@...
Apr 1, 2002 1:57 pm
22879
Sorry for the late reply. To pull the axle, I use a 2 pound slide hammer bolted with big washers through one of the holes in the axle flange. However, there...
Lonnie & Renee' Elliott
bikegeex@...
Apr 1, 2002 2:05 pm
22880
Sounds like a major vac leak to me. Something may have been partially sucked into the carb too. Lon 81WT ... From: "Nelson Davis" ... I've ... whistling...
Lonnie & Renee' Elliott
bikegeex@...
Apr 1, 2002 2:06 pm
22881
Lonnie: Need som info pal..Where is the "valve body" located? What does it look like? Where is the vacuum modulator located and what does it look like? I am...
Frank Donnelly
frankdo@...
Apr 1, 2002 2:14 pm
22882
is that siphon sand blaster the type you hook up to a garden hose and a bag of sand? ... From: "Chuck & Peggy Paras" <pcparas@...> To: "FSJ List"...
Philip Roots
rootsinc@...
Apr 1, 2002 2:58 pm
22883
Got one from Murrays (Detroit only, I think) for $16.99 for an '86 Waggie carb (on one of my YJs). Matt...
Ditto on Petro Jelly- VERY Important. I would also spin it "by hand" as previously recommended. You can use an old, dead distributor shaft or even a large...
j2sax@...
Apr 1, 2002 3:31 pm
22885
Phil, No this is a siphon gun that runs off of my shop air. 5 HP Sears with about 80 gals of storage. It has a tube you put in the bag of sand and it sucks...
I don't know the name of the movie ,but it is about a mother, who lives in the country, and makes baby food for her baby. The baby food is very good and she...
Seth Brechbill
phatboog@...
Apr 1, 2002 3:52 pm
22887
Make sure any of your unused vacuum ports are blocked off. Also make sure one of your vacuum connections didn't come apart. Sound like a pretty big leak. I'de...
Don Weber
tuba_umphblat@...
Apr 1, 2002 3:52 pm
22888
OK OK Guys, I am going home early today and filling it with vaseline. Wish me luck. Good thing I waited to start it up and sent a message out. The Chilton's...
There's a lifted FSJ in Terminator 2 when Arnold is on the motorcycle - just after he gets on it. Looks pretty danged nice, too. Only get to see it for ...
Andy: Still have not been able to make telephone contact with Mr. or Mrs. Hardy over in Beaumont to find out when they might be at home so I can go look at...
Frank Donnelly
frankdo@...
Apr 1, 2002 4:22 pm
22891
There are a whole bunch of Wagoneers in Close Encounters of the third kind. It's what all the government agents drive. It's towards the end of the movie. ...
Too bad Photopoint went TU. I had shots of just about every Jeep in a movie there is! Short list of what I recall: Reba in Tremors (Reba Macintyre was in it,...
I just dismantled the intermediate steering shaft (the one between the steering box & the firewall) on my '77 Wag and removed the U-joint from the upper end....
Obi-Wan
bvh@...
Apr 1, 2002 5:56 pm
22894
A: I'm not sure if there is a big difference in the CB world now (except the hand helds) but I got my dad's old 40 channel Lafeyette to put in Black Jack (it's...
A: You will have to get the flywheel rebalanced by a shop to match the 401 (they should be able to figure it out from the auto flexplate balance) The 401 will...
Lonnie, thanks for the reply. I've found this to be a possible combo with the D44, but I was hoping something different with the AMC20. I talked with another...
A: I've been gone all weekend, so I didn't get a chance to look at it, but the 3 Buick powered FSJs I have looked at so far were all 4 bbl Quadrajunks? (I've...
The valve body is the aluminium block that the filter bolts to. It has a bunch of small bolts holding it up to the tranny. It it the brain of the tranny. Th...
Lonnie & Renee' Elliott
bikegeex@...
Apr 1, 2002 6:41 pm
22900
I've never had any problems getting the axle out. Just be prepared to go seal shopping. I hope you don't have the sealed axle tube. If that inner seal leaks...
Lonnie & Renee' Elliott
bikegeex@...
Apr 1, 2002 6:48 pm
22901
Lonnie: Thanks for the answer..I get smarter every day, thanks to you guys and girls on the list. Frank in Texas ... From: "Lonnie & Renee' Elliott"...
Frank Donnelly
frankdo@...
Apr 1, 2002 6:53 pm
22902
Wow, that's a hemi? Looks like the heads on an old solid lifter 318. More like a canted valve chamber then a hemispereical chamber. Must have worked well,...
Lonnie & Renee' Elliott
bikegeex@...
Apr 1, 2002 6:55 pm
22903
A: You did the right thing. Sometimes you can get away with squirting a little oil in, but why take a chance? The length of the inlet tube and the possibility...
A: Was the oil level checked? It sounds to me like the modulator died (the vacuum pot on the side of the TH400) and sucked a bunch of fluid in (the bluish...
A: I also forgot one of the Planet of the Apes movies had one (by the scene where the 2 were killed on the ship) [Non-text portions of this message have been...
