Rob's 1988 Baltic Blue & Tan Grand Wagoneer Restoration

[SOLSAKS]

yep my opinion is that #5 is a wagoneer carpet trim/retainer

[bkilby]

I have #5 in Green. But mine's a '74 too.

[MysticRob]

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[MysticRob]

Wondering where you found the vent window weather strips? Our driver door has a similar issue & id prefer to not gut the door to fix it. The options Ive seen have the complete triangle - were you able to only buy the vertical strip?

Do you have pix of the carpet trim piece that installs at the front edge of the cargo area platform? Noticed the screw holes while laying DynaMat & wondered; looked it up in the exploded parts diagram - ugh - another unicorn to track down.

Vent window stuff from TGW:
https://teamgrandwagoneer.com/vent-g...-gw-1964-1991/

As for the carpet trim piece you're describing, I have no clue what you mean there.

[MysticRob]

Wondering where you found the vent window weather strips? Our driver door has a similar issue & id prefer to not gut the door to fix it. The options I

It was either BJ's or TGW. I don't buy anything from anyone else now that I think about it.

[Achilles]

Looking good!!

[cu4whln]

Looks good!



I like a thicker wheel ....

Mine is leather wrapped now, I plan to have it redone, but make it thicker as well.

[MysticRob]

Holding onto the donor steering wheel has always been a chore and I've always wondered if it was originally leather wrapped like I thought it should be (no leather on it when I got it), so I got a nice wheel cover that thickens it up nicely and matches my desert tan color pretty well:
PXL_20220709_182846285 by Robert Stone, on Flickr

[MysticRob]

Soooooo... When I bought my cherk, I flushed it with water (I am not joking) at least 10 times and NEVER got the water to run clear. I also, often times, would pull my radiator and flush it. It ALWAYS produced garbage.
My coolant never remained clean until after I had my engine out of my truck, disassembled, and cleaned out the coolant passages with a pick AFTER the hot tank. The amount of crap in the passages is pretty amazing. Not all of it is because of lack of maintenance (although in my case, lack of maintenance DID contribute); I pulled out at least a pound or two of casting sand.

If you do drain it again, make sure you remove the block drain plugs and poke around in there with a screw driver while the coolant is coming out. You can knock of ton of crap out that way, too.

I believe it. When I replaced the left rear freeze plug I was amazed how much crap came out of there. Used fingers and high pressure hose and it took forever to get just that little area clean.

[rang-a-stang]

Soooooo... When I bought my cherk, I flushed it with water (I am not joking) at least 10 times and NEVER got the water to run clear. I also, often times, would pull my radiator and flush it. It ALWAYS produced garbage.
My coolant never remained clean until after I had my engine out of my truck, disassembled, and cleaned out the coolant passages with a pick AFTER the hot tank. The amount of crap in the passages is pretty amazing. Not all of it is because of lack of maintenance (although in my case, lack of maintenance DID contribute); I pulled out at least a pound or two of casting sand.

If you do drain it again, make sure you remove the block drain plugs and poke around in there with a screw driver while the coolant is coming out. You can knock of ton of crap out that way, too.

[Achilles]

Run some seafom through it. I have had good results with it.

[MysticRob]

Those labels take all the fun out of working on our trucks :/

Looks nice though

Yeah, but man I love making things look brand new.

Wow, you do nice work!!

I try!
Ran another can of Berryman's engine flush and did another oil change, this time with Rotella T4 15W-40 and a new Wix filter. Discovered all my oil pan bolts (I'd never touched them) were pretty loose so tightened those up too. Maybe that'll solve an oil leak I have at the back.

I also ran about 60oz of water slowly thru the throttle body to steam clean the cylinders and pistons. It works better than stuff like Seafoam, which just creates a noxious cloud.

Took it for a long test drive and the old thing purs like a kitten again. Will get around to doing a compression and leakdown test at some point.

[Achilles]

Wow, you do nice work!!

[devildog80]

Those labels take all the fun out of working on our trucks :/

Looks nice though

[MysticRob]

I'd put a new radiator and coolant in the beast before the 1,100 mile slog to southern AZ, but she ran a bit hot south of Las Vegas anyway. I'm sure it didn't help that I didn't have a fan shroud on it yet.

The coolant had become so nasty after the trip that it was mostly a dark rust colored, which tells me the previous owners likely didn't put anything besides water in the system for a long time.

I flushed the system again, put some good 50/50 green stuff in it, hosed out the overfill bottle, and ran it a few miles. Looks pretty good now.

Also got the new TGW fan shroud and warning decal, so put those on. Pretty snazzy:
PXL_20220704_180048171 by Robert Stone, on Flickr

PXL_20220704_180055033 by Robert Stone, on Flickr