Rob
August 14th, 2010, 05:58 PM
A big thank you to Chris for spending most of the day at my house fixing various things on the FJ40.
After we threw some 31s on his rig for an emission test and got back from Air Care, we hit the auto parts store for some wiring stuff.
First off was trying to get the lighter to work. Ended up wiring a new lighter directly to the battery. Now I can run my GPS and handheld CB again.
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Then we tackled the horn, which hasn't worked since I bought the 40 last July. Ended up wiring a new horn to the battery with an aftermarket horn button.
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Chris managed to keep smiling, despite the gremlins in the horn wiring.
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After a quick lunch at Subway, I mentioned that the new speedo cable really wanted a new home, so Chris offered to help knock that out, too. After wrestling with the gauge cluster panel, we got it off and the cable unhooked. Routing the new cable to get enough slack to hook it up almost defeated us, but we managed it. Chris then mentioned it would be a good idea to change the bulbs in the panel as long as it was out, so another quick trip to the auto parts store later, the panel had five new bulbs. I'm not sure how many were burned out (at least one, though), but I've never been able to read the panel at night. I plan to do a test run tonight to see if it's any better.
But best of all, the speedometer works again. I was worried it might be the drive gear or the driven gear, which would have meant tearing into the transmission.
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Thanks again, Chris! Hope you had a smooth ride home.
By the way, that clank when I pulled out of the garage was the side mirror you moved out of the way of my head. :lmao:
And you forgot your cucumbers. :frown:
After we threw some 31s on his rig for an emission test and got back from Air Care, we hit the auto parts store for some wiring stuff.
First off was trying to get the lighter to work. Ended up wiring a new lighter directly to the battery. Now I can run my GPS and handheld CB again.
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Then we tackled the horn, which hasn't worked since I bought the 40 last July. Ended up wiring a new horn to the battery with an aftermarket horn button.
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Chris managed to keep smiling, despite the gremlins in the horn wiring.
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After a quick lunch at Subway, I mentioned that the new speedo cable really wanted a new home, so Chris offered to help knock that out, too. After wrestling with the gauge cluster panel, we got it off and the cable unhooked. Routing the new cable to get enough slack to hook it up almost defeated us, but we managed it. Chris then mentioned it would be a good idea to change the bulbs in the panel as long as it was out, so another quick trip to the auto parts store later, the panel had five new bulbs. I'm not sure how many were burned out (at least one, though), but I've never been able to read the panel at night. I plan to do a test run tonight to see if it's any better.
But best of all, the speedometer works again. I was worried it might be the drive gear or the driven gear, which would have meant tearing into the transmission.
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Thanks again, Chris! Hope you had a smooth ride home.
By the way, that clank when I pulled out of the garage was the side mirror you moved out of the way of my head. :lmao:
And you forgot your cucumbers. :frown: