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I usually won't cut good sheet metal, but yours is already cut. In anticipation of logistics issues with living overseas, if I were in your shoes, I would just get out a tape measure, a roll of masking tape, an angle grinder with cutoff wheels, and your choice of corrosion preventive. There's no...

Thanks to whoever invented the PEX bushing. I got enough to last the rest of my life ten times over for a few bucks. It never latched so well.

That's why I went freelance. Shops always tried to make me do work I shouldn't have been doing. If I managed it, they profited and if I didn't, they got to gloat about how women can't turn wrenches. Expressing an honest understanding of your specific capabilities was viewed as a weakness. Going...

I've found a good first step to removing rotor set screws is to place the proper 3/8 socket in them and strike it with a dead blow hammer once or twice before removal. They will usually come right out after you shock the corrosion in the threads. On the other hand, if they salt the roads where...

@Cucvnut Engineered Vintage mount? What winch?

If I still had my pintle hitch... If I had someplace to park a trailer... People born in Las Cruces think this isn't the middle of nowhere, but they're wrong. You saddle up for a 700 mile drive to buy things like this trailer, and you pay three times as much for it. There's at least one M1008...

'84 K5 clearance. Worth a look. https://www.rockauto.com/closeouts/?carcode=1050589&a=CloseoutEmail

I have crossed the threshold. It's too loud because I'm too old.

Steering went neutral when I burned up the fuel in my jerry cans. 75 pounds of fuel mounted above the bumper, four feet behind the axle, and 18" off-center was creating dynamic steering anomalies. For an added 200 miles of range, I'll deal with it. The truck has its problems, but it has been...

That is entirely possible. I completely overlooked it when I was doing the suspension and bushing.

Good to hear from you, Rick. Hope you're feeling well. I just haven't got much faith in anybody since I paid a shop to align my C10 and it was never right again. I've worked in those shops and seen that they usually have the least qualified person possible set the toe and push it out the door.

Yeah. There's a picture of it somewhere in this thread.

It wasn't so long ago that I was thrilled with the feel of new springs, shocks, and eliminating the rag joint, but it's like giving a mouse a cookie. The tightness of the new parts makes the push-pull steering painfully evident every time either pedal gets a workout. Having to make steering...

The GVWR of the CUCV is less than the conventional tow cap of the Ford, so that'd be a boon for moving.

On the turbo 350, I found I could just use a socket to pound a new seal in on top of the old one in a pinch. Beats ending up with a hardened extractor broken off in your transmission like one of the reviews stated. The mechanic in a bottle stuff seems to have fixed nine leaks that I was aware of...

Situationally appropriate literature.

I paid $20 a bottle for ATP AT-205 on eBay and received a package from Rock Auto. I looked it up on Rock Auto and was irritated to see I had been drop ship surcharged 33%. Just one more thing they hide in the menus so you can't find it...

Yeah, there are six wires in the plugs, but the diagram only shows four, which led me to presume it was a universal part across multiple platforms and the other two wires on the CUCV aren't connected to anything. I don't know that. Just assume it based upon the TM. I checked every wire against...

Was concerned with electrical load, but the harness was designed for a nominal 26 watt incandescent bulb, which is roughly equivalent to the draw of the LED 1156 and the LED floodlight combined. The size, weight, and lumens of the floodlamp were giving me worries of letting the magic smoke out...

You're not kidding. I yanked my bed liner out this morning. Slower than a grinder, but just as effective.