Did you check your headlight fluid?

 

HAR HAR; don't quit yer day job....

 

Hey! I got a laugh

but seriously, perhaps your light just went bunk? Try a replacment or if possible plug the other side into that one and see if it works.

 

I'll check the light when I get home, but I'd be surprised if it's burned out already...

 

Holy Smokes! When I got home yesterday, I noticed I had left all eight bolts on the crossmember loose. The entire xmember was hanging down about an inch!! I drove 115 miles with it like that and didn't even lose one bolt. WHEW!! Scared the beejeezus out of me when I saw that!

 

OK, I still have some unanswered questions and the answer to one in particular. I found out what this was:



It's a fuel rail crush washer. How the heck it got into my oil pan, I DON'T WANT TO KNOW.

Also, has anyone figured out what this part is?



and what is this nipple at the top of the tranny (right in the center of the pic) supposed to be connnected to, if anything?

 

I can't believe no one knows what the heck these two are! C'mon guys/gals; a little help?

 

I made my first oil change today with 750 miles on the first oil. It's running GREAT. I got 16+ mpg on my first two tanks (mostly city) and 18 mpg on the last one today. It's smoking just the slightest bit for about 5 minutes at first start, but doesn't appear to be using much oil at all. I used 10w-30 for the first oil, which dropped my pressure down from what I was always used to (never got above halfway on the oil gauge) and now I'm using 20w-50, which is what I've always used in it since I bought it. In harsh cold months I've occasionally switched to 10w-40, but never thinner than that. My oil pressure is back up to the second hash mark at speed, idles about the first hash mark.

I STILL have no answers to my two questions above; has everyone lost interest in my thread that will never die??!? :-)

 

that part is a brace for one of your accessory brackets. I cannot make out what you are talking about in the tranny pic. That crush washer probably fell into the pan when the motor was being assembled, and sat there until you took the pan off, nothing to worry about.

 

THIS is what I'm talking about; click on the pic & it will show a large version:

 

I know the extra part is an accessory bracket, but I'll be damned if I can figure out where the heck it goes!

 

optional equipment?

 

har har har!

 

I would guess its for a breather line, but I've only had autos around. One of my auto trannies had a rubber breather line going from the tranny to the t-case where they both shared a breather vent.

 

I'm having an odd thing happen; when I rev the engine to just over 4000 rpm & shift, I get a "buzzy" feeling in the clutch pedal & a simultaneous buzzing sound from what sounds like the drivers side in front of the firewall. It doesn't happen escept when I have the clutch pushed in, which leads me to believe it is the throwout bearing. But it's a MarlinCrawler & brand new, so I don't think that's it. Is there something about the clutch linkage that could cause a similar vibration?

 

did you check your fluid for the clutch? did you bleed that system?

Thats the only thing that I can think of being that you have the new throwout bearing in there.

KAt

 

Bled completely with all new DOT 4 fluid. It's weird.

 

This looks like the bracket and bolt that connect the a/c compressor and the P/S pump bracket. If I'm right your a/c compressor is missing a bolt in the upper right side (as you look at it).

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Originally Posted by TNRabbit

and what is this nipple at the top of the tranny (right in the center of the pic) supposed to be connnected to, if anything?

Usally there is a hose on there, it goes to the front of the t-case to a similar looking nipple.


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Thanks!

 

That nipple on the tranny is a breather. Your differential should have it, too.