Charging the battery in the car is perfectly safe - over here, many car battery chargers come with harnesses to permanently install in the car to allow for in car charging via a quick connect plug. You can even buy units that permanently install in the car and you just plug and extension cord into, like an electric block heater.
MKX had a pretty swanky brown leather interior in one of the 2016 Black Label themes.
Was doing suspension work on a friend's first-gen Xterra, which basically ensures that if you're doing anything to the control arm you're going to have to cut at least one of the UCA bolts as they almost always have frozen into the bushing sleeves.
There's no room to fit a grinder so you're stuck sawzall-ing through a big-ass hardened suspension bolt and sleeve, twice. After 30 minutes of sawing with a good-quality metal-cutting blade, the blade was completely toast and I'd only made it 1/3 of the way through the first cut.
I swung by HD and saw they had these Freud Diablo blades with carbide teeth. A bit pricey compared to the normal blades and a thicker kerf, ($12 for a 6" blade) but oh man, 100% worth it.
I'm totally blown away. That blade tore through the bolts and sleeves in ~20 seconds per cut, even with my cheapo Mastercraft sawzall. I'm not sure I could have gone that fast with a grinder, it was amazing. Plus, the blade looks as good as new. If you find yourself needing to hack through thick metal in small spaces, grab one of those, it'll be your new best friend.
Holy crap, that's a way worse job than I was using that blade for. Glad my recommendation helped!
Good call not getting a remanned ZJ box, 99% of them are garbage.
The above post came in handy this past weekend. The local Pick N Pull chain was having a half off sale, thomas and I had located a suitable Jeep ZJ to pull the steering box from (to fix the horrible stock Cadillac variable steering ratio box through replacement) and I had neither the time nor inclination nor ability due to my recovering injuries to sit there trying to pop the Pittman arm off. Or for that matter try to separate a ball joint in what turned out to be artificially tight quarters. I did, however, have a borrowed Ryobi reciprocating saw and I recalled the post about the Diablo blades. I duly went to Home Despot and grabbed one of the above blades plus some others from the same outfit for cutting plastic and light sheet steel. (Yes, there's a very good reason why we didn't just get a rebuilt ZJ box off the shelf - will eventually post up on thomas' Caddy thread about that.)
Get down to the junkyard and while the steering box and Pittman arm aren't blocked, the way they've put the ZJ on its supports means that there's no way in hell I would be able to get the tie rod off the Pittman arm let alone get the arm off the box. Turned out that Diablo blade is even more ridiculously effective than previously mentioned. In order to get the box out, I cut the tie rod - through the adjuster sleeve.
It went through 30mm or so of (tempered?) steel in somewhere between 5-10 minutes and was none the worse for wear afterwards. That was absolutely astonishing.
I'd have expected it to go quicker. I'm a true believer in those blades, and have never had a cut take more than a minute (except the time I was trying to cut through a rubber bushing with it). I suspect your sawzall of insufficient ass (or you weren't putting enough weight behind it)
Good find, that'll be the original box - factory-installed boxes were -AB in '98, service boxes were -AD. Low miles, should last a long time.
Are the 90s panther steering boxes better than the 80s one that I?ve got?
Are the 90s panther steering boxes better than the 80s one that I?ve got?
IIRC that depends on what steering box you have. I remember the P71 and Handling and Performance Package cars having better steering boxes than standard civilian cars.
Good find, that'll be the original box - factory-installed boxes were -AB in '98, service boxes were -AD. Low miles, should last a long time.
Would have been a great chassis donor for Rick I think
CrzRsn, please buy this so I don?t trade in the Genesis and buy it :lol:
https://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/cto/d/1998-toyota-land-cruiser-rear/6402921167.html