Recent content by AKghandi

Pulled the carpets from both trucks and pressure washed all of them and re installed the best sections. thankfully the carpet is a 4 part setup. The rear passenger side carpet was nearly gone from a previous owner leaving a battery back there. They are still stained in places but most of what...

OK still here still wrenchin on this thing, its gettin to the point I can actually take it places. First I had to solve my engine issues. so I replaced the engine.... and the transmission. Out with the old. In with the new. Resealed used motor with 119k. Backed it up with a resealed trans...

Not A whole lot, been battling a valvetrain noise that comes and goes intermittently. I pulled the pan and found a bunch of plastic in the pick up. Turns out the drivers side cam chain tensioner ate one of its plastic pads. Cleaned it all up and replaced the tensioner. Still have the noise. So I...

So the truck was put back together but something wasnt right. Then it started leaking. So the heads are coming back off and quality headgaskets are going in. My headbolt repair seems to be holding though. I put 2 helicoils in the hole and used a length of 7/16 hardend all thread that I also JB...

Valve cover bolts are 5mm hex. Aside from that if you are on the isuzu trader fb there a fsm pdf in the files section

So a few things have happened, as you can see the heads are off. Everything went pretty smooth, until one of the head bolts snapped in the block.. It broke off about 2" below the deck surface, and since drilling it didnt go well I will be helicoiling the hole and using a shorter bolt. Not...

I wont be doing a full rebuild, just pulling the heads and replacing all the gaskets. The engine has nearly no blowby and great compression, but it leaks like a SOB and smokes on start up.

Things will be happening soon, Should be ready for winter and any trips next summer. Also I will probably build a camping trailer out of an 85-89 subaru wagon next spring. should work out alot better.

Went better than I thought. goodbye parts rig, you will be missed :'(

I could, but that would be far more work that it would be worth. plus the body has a vin on it and the DMV here is a pain

Update time: So the trailer build will not be happening, the DMV says I need title to the parts rig to turn it to a trailer, the title is pretty much non existent as the truck was bought from an auction and the paperwork was never filed and then lost. I will probably build some kind of trailer...

Sadly, no. I have the parts truck at a friends place and he works 2 wks on 2 wks off and last couple rotations hes been busy so in a few weeks I should have it where I can work on it. I did however get the go ahead from my money manager, she thinks it'll be alot of fun.

So I had a crazy idea. This one is a Photoshop, there is no second axle. This is however exactly what I'm thinking. So I have a parts truck for my Trooper that is identical in every way, as a bonus the engine and trans are already gone. I have nothing better to do with it than make...

Been a while, I'm still here though. So since my last update, I installed 2" wheel spacers and Fixed the windshield leak/rust ALWAYS USE PROPER FOOTWEAR..... thankfully there was no rust through. Little filler primer, and some fresh glue all told for removal and re installation I'm...

Got quite a bit done in the last few days. Installed some HD tie rods to handle the force of the larger tires. 295/75R16 BFG ATKO2 on factory wheels. it has 265/75R16 in this pic. They tuck pretty good. lots of clearance. Got an alignment and did a few tune up items. I bought...