[ihc] Shocks and door hinges..

[David Raistrick <keen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey guys.

Finally got a few moments to spare at work.

Replaced the pass. lower door hinge on the B-130 this weekend...had to
tackle that project, got tired of having to hold the door up while opening
it...:)  /Very/ happy that the PO included a good hinge.  New hinge had a
few bolts busted off in it, but that was easy to repair with a vice,
hammer, torch, and oil.

Had to take the door completely off...Ug.  Not so bad, really, but still.
While I had it off, I put the truck in the shop. (8ft wide door is not
wide enough with those big mirrors on both sides..)   Took the mirror off
after the door was off the truck.

Dog wanted to ride, so while we slowly maneuvered the truck in the door he
hung out on the seat.  Then he spent an hour just lounging around inside
the truck...got some pictures, but I've been to lazy to pull them off the
camera.


Since I got it into the shop, I put it up on the big jack (and realized I
/really/ need to go get my big jack stands from storage in GA) and crawled
around under the truck.

A bit of oil is seeping from the fill?-hole on the rearend.  Maybe a
little slinging off of the front seal, too.

LOTS of oil all over the tranmission...but it could be from the engine,
too.  Peeking through the vents into the bellhousing, the side of the
clutch I could see looked dry, so at least it's not the rear crank
seal...To much of everything to tell if its gear oil or not. (of course,
from what I read the gearbox shouldn't use gear oil anyway..)

Need to pressurewash it...

Also has some oil leaking insid the cab at the base of the shifter.  I
assume there is a seal down there somewhere?


Looking at other things under the truck (how the bed is mounted, how the
hitch is attached, etc etc) I noticed that the truck has NO rear shocks!
Is this normal for a 1ton?  I don't see anywhere that they would mount,
either.


Front shocks need to be replaced, this I do know from driving it...floats
around a bit after bumps.  Any shock recommendations?


Waiting on money to get tires..still need to swing by the shop that
offered to do the work to give him a chance to back out..

...david


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