94turboidi
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Well I keep getting closer on the truck but new problems keep arriving. Today I got the rear driveshaft put on, I switched out my entire glowplug controller with another I had around that I know works. Glowplugs stay on for at least 10 seconds but it doesn't fire that good, it must be in the timing? Once its warmed up it fires right back up. Well my starter might be going out, it will just click and not turn over and if I keep hitting the key it goes ahead and spins. It only does this when it cools down because Once I have it spinning over it will keep spinning over. It seems to drag my batterys which are fairly new down pretty fast. Well I got the new ujoints put in the rear driveshaft and installed it, put the front bumper back on. I bled the clutch more but still can't get it in gear unless I start it in gear. Well I decided maybe I would try driving it to town and work out some air, bad idea! Well on the way out the drive I was thinking wow its running pretty good. Drove a few miles and decided I didn't want to shift it like that and was going to turn around. About that time I got a bad vibration, I started slowing down to pull over and it got really bad. The new ujoint caps had worked out, it was still holding in the shaft so I had to creep along the shoulder and find a spot to turn around that wouldn't block traffic if it all fell apart. I made it back to our driveway and it fell clear apart. I put it in 4wd and cut some wire off the fence and wired up the rear shaft, it made it almost to the house but kept falling out of the wire, I was cold, frustrated, etc. I gave up and went to town. I came back and wired it on better but the starter did the same thing and when I finally got it to crank over the battery went dead pretty fast. I think I am going to find another driveshaft, the Ujoints are the correct ones, the clips were in but when I got the driveshaft it was in pieces and looked like it had done the same thing and came apart and drug on the highway, I put new joints in last year, had to do a little filing to get them to go in and they have held up for a year but they were really cheap joints and were starting to get some play in them so I just wanted to replace them. So I need a rear shaft for a supercab longbed with a 5 speed, anyone got one? I've done alot of ujoints and never had one come apart right after pressing it in. They seemed to press in pretty easy but still fairly tight. These were the cheap joints again, I didn't want to put much in it because I will be shortening the wheelbase by 3" hopefully next year and was just going to get good ones then. I know I can get another rear shaft and fix that but the clutch is still bugging me. I suppose I still have air, I think I am going to remove it all and just bleed it inside as one assembly and put it back on.
