Can’t say fer certain

YET,

But Methinks I’ma gonna be doin’ a clutch,,,,

Extremely short day at the J.O.B. Master cylinder slotted to arrive tomorrow, headlights arrived today, so that was the area I was working in: Lighting. I pre-emptively said I had no tail lights,,, Today I did have them SO, either my eyesight was lying (mehbe, it was a sunny day) or like some other things I’ve noted on this truck, they ‘wake back up’ after some running/fiddlin’. That scares me only a little. Its not uncommon for contacts to get a little corroded sitting idle, then clean back up when the electrons start flowing again.

But I was doing the lighting things, fired up Twuck to run and charge the battery back up, and that daggum squealing noise grabbed my attentions,,,, Thought it was under the hood, around the drive belt area, but the more I listened (with a tube in my ear that I was pointing at suspect areas to isolate/rule out.) I was drawing a blank. Fine,, Climb under truck and get a different perspective: That squealing noise is from the bellhousing area. Likely the throw-out bearing. Tomorrow I will have the Mastercylinder in hand, bench bleed it, install it and attempt to bleed that slave cylinder,,,, AND may be then, KNOW. IF I can bleed that slave, I will hear a pitch change when that throwout engages the pressure plate arms; it may settle down, it may even disintegrate: But I will know one way or the other. As I mentioned to a guy thats following my adventure here locally, “IF I gotta, I go full bore and cry once”. No jimmy-jackin’ around But I won’t be ordering any parts until I know for certain.

Oh, but she looks good with headlights in her eyesockets. Not so ‘Junkyard dawg’ looking. I do have a couple of marker lights that need replaced, but turns, tails and brake lights work just fine. (and need to replace the plate lamp since it was corroded to the point it fell apart in my hands checking it.)

And I found another bonus: the spare tire “keeper” is fully functional!!! Usually those things are rust heaps after a few seasons on these salt encrusted roads. I ran it down (no spare, to be rectified) and the cable even had grease on it. I don’t think the thing has ever been used, after they took the first spare off. And it may never have had a spare to begin with since the bed didn’t have a ‘hole’ for the lowering tool.(does now! LOL)

All in all: I think my time-line of “by Turkey day or soon thereafter” might have been a leettle overzealous. If I do have to pull that transmission out, Me thinks sometime in January is more intune. IF I get lucky, mid December,,,

Really want the poor girl on the road soonest though. I has a feeling Buffalo is getting ready to pull some jealous BS on me,,, Paranoid? Who? Me? Nahhh!!!! LOL

I have my heavy tools down on site, tomorrow is clutch cylinders and attempting to figure out that mess. AND, putting the ass end on stands, pulling tires (to be taken for new shoes) and getting those rear brakes loosened up and inspected. I was thinking, if I gotta pull the transmission, then would be the absolute best time to do the solid brake lines to the rear as I would have oodles of space under there to work with. May even go ahead and pull the tank anyways, as it is in the way as well, and cleaning it out wouldn’t be a bad thing. (Note: shitty part about this is where she is. A grassy spot near my dads woodshed, Not exactly the most solid ground to be putting jackstands on,,, I use sections of 2×10 scrap wood as a base, but even they sink in time. And this is one HEAVY tWuck!)

Anywhoos,,, My apologies for no pictures,,, I’m horrible about that; getting in the groove, moving, doin’, and the whole “document document document” thing never even crosses my mind until I am mid-post sharing with you. I’m too cheap (read ‘Broke as F!’) to hire a camera person to follow me around (and would probably get them hurt in short order, I move unpredictably.) Besides, I don’t like being IN FRONT of the cameras, or under the lime-light,,, Always been the “behind the scenes” sort.

I’m back at it tomorrow while the weather is on my side. Little deals and big deals abound on Twuck, like getting the locks on the boxes replaced.(on thier way) cleaning out the boxes of gunk and grunge. fixing the drivers side interior door handle (have in hand, just need to do) OH,,, Forgot that part. The key that came with the ignition lock cylinder? AMAZINGLY works the door locks. Have to jiggle a little bit, but it DOES work the locks. How cool is THAT? Maybe I should play the lottery this month!

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