After delivering an Explorer (Icarus) to a fellow member (Froader) today, I felt inspired, and crawled under the Navajo to finish what I started earlier in the year. Last time I drove the Navajo on it's maiden voyage, I discovered a check engine light with two issues. 1. No speedometer reading, because the tone ring was missing. 2. Fuel gauge was not working.
With the pandemic, I started working from home in March, and I made my garage into my temporary office. Although the Navajo made for an awesome background on conference calls, working in my garage on a computer 10 hrs a day, made me not want to be out there anymore. My sanctuary, turned upside down. About 6+ weeks ago, I started going back to the office full time, and the garage has started to become appealing again.
Having finished the tone ring install earlier in the year, I had started to track down the fuel gauge issue , but then life just happened and everything just sat idle. Gas tank on the floor, and everything getting piled on and around the Navajo.
So tonight, with a new fuel pump installed, I bolted the gas tank back up In place, and tested the key. Fuel gauge went to "E" where it should, so fingers crossed, both issues should be resolved now. I even programmed a remote keyless entry fob for it, and it WORKS! Which is pretty cool I think.
So tommorow I'll put some fuel in it and see what happens.
Also I picked up another set of axles today from Froader. '04 Super Duty axles, with 4.56 gears already installed. Being '04 axles, also means the front is a Dana 60 vs. my '99 axle I have, which is a Dana 50.