I heard clunking under deceleration, the po of my truck told me the transfer case was needing to be rebuilt, he included the kit to do so, and I figured it was the case that finally exploded, so I rebuilt it.



With the exception of doing the oil pump mod, nothing was wrong with the case, and my test drive confirmed. It was actually my rear d60 that had blown up, so I swapped it with a Sterling 10.25 so that I can steal parts between my two trucks if I need.

 

What did you do in your spare time?

 

The only downtime I had in the three days that I was working on this project was waiting on the parts store employees to figure out how to search for a combination 1350/1330bc u-joint. I feel like if I have to teach somebody what something is that they stock and sell, then they are not doing their job. One if the senior employees told the guy helping me to reference some book they had to help him help me, his response was that he didn't know how to read that book, then he kept on stumbling through their inventory system.

Rant over.

 

Sad, but true!

 

I have to disagree. The days of parts people knowing what they sell are long gone. All of the parts houses are hiring associates for sales positions. This means that they are taught to simply sell parts. Whether someone knowledgeable is hired is entirely up to the store manager. And with what the part houses pay their associates, you won't find many knowledgeable associates.

So these days it's YOUR responsibility to look up your own parts, and figure out the correct part number BEFORE you go to the store. That way you know what you're getting is right, you save time wasted at the parts store, and you can get back to your project quicker without having to make a second trip.

 

One time I went in to Autozone and asked if they had any carburetor mounting studs, the response I got was HUH? and a puzzled look.

Recently I went in to Oghetto's Auto parts and asked if they had any brake bleeding barbs that screw in to the calipers. This one kid was like what are those? oddly enough the girl behind the counter knew what I was talking about. Sad say for that kid LOL.


As far as what I did to the truck today I put a new steering wheel cover on it.

 

Looks like the one I remember in my grandmother's 1977 Country Squire LTD wagon.
Maybe that's where I got my love for the venerable 460???

 

Wow, Jim, you have just passed 20,000 posts!!!

 

Well my power distribution box came in today. The plastic bottom cover to hide all the wires is only currently being held on via one clip the other three are broken. The cover is also busted in one area as well.


Now the rest of the downside is that this thing as only one ear to mount it to the fender. Since I have all the factory jack an external relay and everything I will be mounting it traverse behind the battery. I am thinking of making some kind of frame to mount it to which would then bolt to the fender through the external regulator mounts.


As of now how ever I am disassembling it counting the number of circuits it has and then I need to do some research to find out if I can buy these terminals new so I can crimp them on new wires. I could solder but I hate to solder a 12ga wire to what appears to be a factory 20ga wire.

 

Rusty, is that one of the later power boxes, 1992-96/7? If it is I may have an extra bottom cover.

 

Nope its a box out of a '00 to '05 Ford Escape/Mazda.


I went with this one as its slim and didn't appear too big. Its a good size box for me down side is the thing is heavy. Right now I am trying to get the wire plug out of the terminal on the lower cover so I can start using my multi meter to trace down which circuits I want to keep which is the oem power supply for the fuses and the relays and what I want to get rid of which is mostly the 20ga wires


I already lightened the box up some by removing the ABS relay/fuse box that was stuck on the side with double stick tape. Didn't like removing it as its the only thing that said Ford on the whole box but I don't need an ABS box on my truck not to mention two fuses and a relay isn't enough reason to keep it when I already have seven full size relay slots and three micro relay slots in the main box.






Only thing that has me apprehensive about gutting this box any further is I haven't cut any of the main power wires for the relay terminals as I have to see if I cant find a place to buy terminals that will plug in if I can then I will simply gut the whole box and wire it from scratch. Other wise I need to gut what I wont use and keep what would work to eliminate extra work on myself.

 

Got a chance today to troubleshoot the Pick and Pull cruise control that wouldn't work. When I disconnected the cable I found out why. The inside was full of corrosion. I was going to take it back next time (with a different cable) but it has to be done in 30 days, and it only cost $19.99. It isn't worth a special trip and the 460 specific cable is worth that much.

 

Well I went to do my front wheel bearings and found out I need to do a full brake job and u-joints. But the bearings went well.

 

Drove the truck today, the mileage hit 234,234. Next up is 234,567.8. Then after that nothing like it for 111,111 miles.





Excuse the faded looking needle, camera makes it look like that. All orange in person.

 

I'm having to take the transmission out and take it to a shop, cause it's stuck in third gear. going to be one hell of a job, not to mention expensive.