What have you done to your square lately??

[78C10BigTen]

Swapped the AMD front plate back on it for C10 Nationals and changed out my turn signal flasher. For several years now, I'd been running a NAPA LED flasher relay that has a separate ground wire plus a 50ohm resister in each corner for the turn signals and it worked great. Last spring, right before I quit driving the truck, the flasher relay died so I had to manually blink to make turns lol. Once I got the truck back together in July, I threw in a regular flasher to see what it would do. Ever since then, the blinkers worked normally while the lights were off but the front signals behind the grille wouldn't do anything if the running lights/headlights were on. They just stayed solid.

So I decided I prob needed another LED specific relay. Napa's flasher relay was damn near 3 times Amazon's price for a pack of 2, so Amazon won. Threw it in and tossed the other non-LED flasher relay into the hazard relay spot because I've never had working hazards as long as I've owned this truck. I think that's the original relay!

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Get all that swapped and it's still doing the same thing. So now I'm checking grounds and trying to figure out WTF I did wrong when I put everything back together. My coworker comes over and notices that when I pull the running lights on, the front markers are WAYYY brighter than they are when they're blinking as signals with the lights off, basically they're working backwards. So I start wondering if I could've installed the bulbs backwards. Pulled the grill out and sure enough, they were backwards. Now everything works like it should. It's hard to get it to pick up on the camera but this is the LH blinker and RH running light. Glad to have that fixed cuz it's pretty much supposed to rain all weekend

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LEDs are a real pita like that! Always check before ya put it all back together lol

 

[DoubleDingo]

LEDs are a real pita like that! Always check before ya put it all back together lol

Or stick with what God intended on the old rigs....incandescent.....

 

[78C10BigTen]

Or stick with what God intended on the old rigs....incandescent.....

Yea true but im an LED nut. I put em in everything lol

 

[Travlr]

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[Camar068]

Yea true but im an LED nut. I put em in everything lol

I started to do the LED headlights but didn't like the little round circles in the bulb....it took away from the stock look. I like LED's, but I couldn't there. I went aftermarket for the headlights.

When it comes to dash lights, don't go cheap like I did......can't see sh|t at night.

 

[awar]

Very good day today, picked up my TH400-205 adaptor from the machine shop. I had the index ring cut down to the 4L80e index size and verified fit! I also got the resealed cylinders reinstalled on my 10k lb two post hoist. I bought the hoist new in 2001 so it gave good service. It lived outside for 15 years. It is inside a metal building since 2018. The cylinders started to leak internally. So it would drift to the locks, the cylinders lift on retract. It is a Forward brand hoist. I think they are owned by Rotary now. 13.5 ft overhead for taller vehicles. It has been trouble free until about the last month. Can you believe ATF is over $10 per quart now.

 

[DoubleDingo]

Drove it to check the mail and get new hose clamps for the Jeep. Checked tranny fluid, it was low, took a quart, now it's right on the full mark.

 

[xm20k]

I bought a Dragy Pro will make testing on the "private road" easy.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSV36JY9/

Demo video.

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[shawn57nomad]

Got the motor and transmission set. (LS and TKX). Thanks to Scott Baccus and his components. All the Tejas SteelWorks Inc parts including new engine stands for the frame work wonderfully together!

 

[xm20k]

Got the Dragy Pro today and I think I got it sorted out. It works like a dash cam but with extra data and speed/distance tracking. It does the callouts all the time while driving, Which I can't hear most of the time. Every time you stop it puts up the launch countdown, so as long as it's running you can stop at any time and it'll automatically pop up and if it senses motion, it starts counting and doing callouts. Kind of a pain to get the video off of it as it's not saved in the normal places on your phone.

Clip from me just cruising around a bit messing with it. You can hear the call outs that I can't when driving.

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[xm20k]

This is the whole thing a rechargeable magnetic GPS module that sends its data via Bluetooth to the app on your phone which does the recording with its camera. It comes with a suction cup mount, hook and loop and some 3m metal plates, but Square body metal headliner works without any of that.

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The cheap Amazon phone mount.

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[Camar068]

Very good day today, picked up my TH400-205 adaptor from the machine shop. I had the index ring cut down to the 4L80e index size and verified fit! I also got the resealed cylinders reinstalled on my 10k lb two post hoist. I bought the hoist new in 2001 so it gave good service. It lived outside for 15 years. It is inside a metal building since 2018. The cylinders started to leak internally. So it would drift to the locks, the cylinders lift on retract. It is a Forward brand hoist. I think they are owned by Rotary now. 13.5 ft overhead for taller vehicles. It has been trouble free until about the last month. Can you believe ATF is over $10 per quart now.

dex/merc valvoline is $25 per gallon at walmart.

 

[Tank6x2]

Interior days. The heat control cable was stuck in the mid high hot area and while thats not usually a problem, it needs correction.

All I can say is Kroil is a wonderful thing. Nice having full deflection again so I can cut the heat when appropriate. Now on to figuring why the blower has checked out of the chat. Then I can start to thinking about buttoning the dash back up, after I figure out if this old radio shack cassette stereo is worth jamming in there. Then on to deciding how to, re-engineer, the dash pad and AC duct registers.

Kroil is the only penetrating fluid worth while

 

[Ricko1966]

50/50 acetone and atf beats Kroil YMMV

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Series I Tech Garage - Machinist's Workshop Penetrating Oils - Test - I was sent this on another forum and found that it was very interesting informative about liquids used to break free rusted/seized bolts. I have attached the original PDF, but am quoting it in post content here as well...

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[Tank6x2]

50/50 acetone and atf beats Kroil YMMV

Machinist's Workshop Penetrating Oils - Test - RX8Club.com

Series I Tech Garage - Machinist's Workshop Penetrating Oils - Test - I was sent this on another forum and found that it was very interesting informative about liquids used to break free rusted/seized bolts. I have attached the original PDF, but am quoting it in post content here as well...

www.rx8club.com

I’ve been there and I disagree very much, but it’s great if you wanna peel paint and smell like dead Dino doing it