Recent content by ChrisCo

I'd planned to pick up a spare ever since I did the conversion, but just never got around to it. Now I'll pick up a couple more to have around...at least until I manage to find time/space/$$$ to start working on shoe-horning Carhart's ol' 5VZ under the hood lol I haven't checked yet -- you have...

What's that? Me getting it out of the yard or the GM ignition module taking a dump? :redneck: How the heck are you doing these days, Rix?

I might do that one of these days...after I get it running again. It stalled on me while using it out in the yard today, and refuses to start. I'm thinking the GM ignition module took a dump lol

Let's see. Since I last posted an update... Sold my old house (almost two years to the date of listing it), my daughter got married (the day after closing on the sale), I helped son-in-law start a landscape and tree care business, tried to focus on buying a new home (lost out a few times and...

Must be a TG kit thing. I've don't recall anyone ever having to swap out the rad for a SAS on a Taco before. What's the reason for the shorter rad (genuine curiosity)? Was it interfering with the steering or something? Is it my beer goggles, or is the new (shorter) one also wider? It looks like...

WAS being the keyword. At some point he stopped giving a damn on keeping it clean, and now it's bashed to **** now. Last I'd heard, it hadn't moved farther than the driveway in years. Yet another "If you can't buy it..." scenario.

I've worked on fixing at least one of 'em that was done around here back then... Sloppy work to say the least... Not that I'm entirely happy with the swap we did on Rob's rig, but it was light years better than what I "got" to fix. I'm trying to remember if we had to do anything special with...

:yawn: SASing a Taco is so 2003. :redneck: Looking good, Crash!

It's been a while since I've updated this thread...not that I've done a whole lot since the last update... Since my last update, I still haven't ordered a new rear driveshaft, nor have I finished the cage...but, I have gotten some work in on it here and there. Shortly after my last post, I...

Thanks! Is is one of my favorite hiding places lol :eeek: I'd build my own if I wanted this kind of quality. Just curious -- what was it for? Did you ask them WTF?

Thanks. I wanted this thing done 7 years ago. I'm actually shooting for a light shake down run at Tahuya sometime (probably late) February. I've still got a lot to do before that, though. Any recommendations on where to get a rear drive shaft built? I'm somewhat expecting to call Tom Woods or...

I don't remember if I've already said it or not, but the shop looks great, Mike.

There, all current up to here. Now crash can stop popping over to that other forum asking if it's done yet :haha:

Dammit! Just as I'm getting the Cow to a point that I *think* it might go wheeling sometime in the next couple of years (house hunting is taking priority right now), someone goes and leaves this in my garage... Yes, this is yet another long term project...but the Cow WILL wheel before this...

Let the Cow out of its stall long enough to turn it around and pull it right back in to the stall to be decapitated... I was expecting to find a complete blow-out on the head gasket...but, oddly, it seemed fine. This is where it was leaking: The corresponding mating surface on the head is...