Replaced the passenger side rear inner splash guard. Nothing like using a angle grinder on corroded bolts right beside the fuel filler hose.


Old splash guard


New splash guard, almost installed fully.

 

change oil in front and rear differential. New rear rotors. Brembos this time. No squealing....yet.

 

Installed a genuine thermostat and gasket. Ready for summer! My brakes squeal too, but only if I'm stopping.... It's starting to sound like music.

 

New voltage regulator on the alternator. Replaced the gas tank cradle. You would think the underside of my truck is a rust bucket, but oddly only the gas tank cradle has any corrosion of substance. Strange.

 

Replaced all four shocks. Somewhat of a simple job. Going to do a chassis lube once I find the grease gun.

 

Put new Gabriel shocks on all 4 corners for only $144 bucks, also new NOKIAN ROTIIVA A/T tires, happy with them so far but they do like to carry rocks. I removed the rear seats since I never use them and now there is more hauling / sleeping room.

 

what I plan to do soon

1) replace VSS - failing - LR part
2) replace CPS - for good measure - Bosch part
3) replace fuel filter - for good measure - LR part
4) T-case / differential / oil change

next project - replace valley pan gasket - crumbling to nothing

 

Removed window ecu to fix the bad solder joint since the resr windows stopped working 🙄... It's immaculate. Looks like I'll be trying the bypass from AB.

 

I dunno. The red circle is where they typically go bad so I'd definitely re-solder that one. I'd do the same for the orange circle. Look carefully at the blues circles.

 

I'll go ahead and hit them since I did a **** job reinstalling it anyways ( couldn't get the cover to snap back on) hopefully that'll do it.

Edit: sure is... Can BARELY see it with the naked eye, but zoomed with the camera, the red one is cracked all the way around.