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Old Jun 5, 2018 | 06:07 AM
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I’m glad it started for you. Lol

i did wipers, 1 headlight bulb, finished off the brakes, raised the bags up, fixed the hood gasket ugliness.
 
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Old Jun 5, 2018 | 11:14 AM
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I would love to get my windows to go and down and mirrors to work. Apparently no power to the switches. Also need to see why the blender motor is not working. My daughter steam cleaned the motor and now no heat.


Replacing seatbelts and some trim. She has been sitting for over a year now but she started right up when I put new fuel into her.
 
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Old Jun 6, 2018 | 08:40 AM
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Used it to haul the new boat down to the coast. Tows great but gets a shimmy between 0-30 MPH sometimes? Turning or speeding up eliminates the shake but if I'm going straight and accelerating slowly it shakes the boat a lot more than I would like.


 
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Old Jun 6, 2018 | 10:24 AM
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Sounds like a u joint
 
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Old Jun 7, 2018 | 03:26 AM
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Fixed the windshield squirters, I installed 2 inline pumps for now, I will order a factory style later, need all 3 eventually
Had to solder a new lead into the pigtail of the market light, original wire was so corroded it wouldn’t take , so I spliced in a new piece. Covered the end in liquid electrical tape.
 
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Old Jul 8, 2018 | 08:49 AM
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In rapid succession I've developed an intermittent shimmy followed by a chirp, After a little web surfing I'm thinking U-joint also. I would assume at the point of a shimmy and a chirp one does not just grease it and move along... ??? At least the P38 has a serviceable u-joints...
 
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Old Jul 8, 2018 | 09:31 AM
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It's possible but I would plan on u joint replacement
 
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Old Jul 8, 2018 | 09:04 PM
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I’d change the joint for sure. I adjusted the throttle cable on mine today. I noticed tape on the end where the cable attaches to the threaded part. Obviously someone has monkeyed with it before. I’ll be changing that out shortly.
 
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Old Jul 8, 2018 | 10:27 PM
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Upon further inspection, yes broken U Joint on T-case side of front drive shaft. Squirted the bolts with penetrating oil today, Will see how friendly they are tomorrow.
 
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Old Jul 11, 2018 | 05:13 PM
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The bolts came out! Didn't break or round a single one!! Took about an hour total to get the shaft out... Then another hour trying to use a cheap circlip tool, then the got the U-Joints out using the hammer and socket method. New ones went in pretty easy... Reinstalled the shaft today and more than one noise has disappeared and of course it is much smoother now. Big difference, as a matter of fact I probably caught this right before it would have been a wallet buster... Being my first drive shaft self service this guys videos were helpful

While I was underneath I greased the rear prop shaft U-Joint, only the one on the T-case side was serviceable and took 6 squirts before it was full... the rear one no zerk.

Now (well another day actually) on to the rest of the list... bad wheel sensor front right due to leaking axel seal, funny brake noise front left...
 

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