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Johnston @Itaro thought of you today while at Tina’s uncle’s funeral viewing from your rig yr’s past.Possibly i’ll see the person tomorrow at the actual funeral.Taco looked fresh on the dealer lot and never touched dirt.Had to be original BFG A/T KO tires.AFA39B56-25ED-4D4E-995F-51E90C770A9C.jpeg
 
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I see no reason for any codes to have appeared, you have normal fuel trim correction amounts. I can't speak to the oxygen sensor voltage, since you cannot determine anything from static readings, but since they are responsible for telling the ECU how to correct, it's probably fine.
You still have this fuel smell so you should be looking at your vacuum lines and hoses along all of your evaporative emissions components. Perhaps a cracked charcoal canister whose job is to store excess fuel vapors which then get vented into the intake via the purge valve at pre-determined times.
That hose thats cracked which you aren't sure about, it's for the power steering idle-up control. Bumps the idle up when the power steering is under load to prevent the engine from shutting down.
I've been monitoring it since. Just recently had to drive a good distance just last Saturday and things looked good and drove good (i.e. no Harley Davidson idling). I was monitoring the fuel trims and 02 data and it all looked normal to me.

Anyways, I'll know more of what is going on hopefully next weekend. Thank you very much for the input and information. I'll check the canister and definitely start changing out the vacuum hoses as I go along.

But now I have other things that have come up...
 
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HAHAHAHAHA, my truck needs to be put out of its misery!!! :rofl::rofl::rofl: I now have a small to fairly good radiator leak of some sorts? It LOOKS as if it is coming from the top portion of the "radiator seam" and then going down the side on to the bottom dripping away.
LeakingRadiator_p1.jpg

This is the driver side upper left corner of the radiator. Just to the lower left in the picture is the car battery. Anyways, the upper seam part of the radiator looks as if it is leaking? I'm not going to put any stop leak fluid or anything and just get a new radiator. I want to do an engine radiator coolant flush anyways... eventually.
LeakingRadiator_p2.jpg

This is the driver side UCA. The grease ball is split.
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I've definitely got some work to do now. Keeps my mind busy on things like this instead of "other things".

@4runner DOA Danny, so I'm thinking I'll do the fuel filter and vacuum hoses (well, some of the vacuum hoses, but it's a start anyways). Is it hard to change the ball joint??? I've never done one before?

OR for the ball joint, should I just wait for my Camburgs? I plan on getting my UCA's when I get my tax returns.
 

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HAHAHAHAHA, my truck needs to be put out of its misery!!! :rofl::rofl::rofl: I now have a small to fairly good radiator leak of some sorts? It LOOKS as if it is coming from the top portion of the "radiator seam" and then going down the side on to the bottom dripping away.
View attachment 17260

This is the driver side upper left corner of the radiator. Just to the lower left in the picture is the car battery. Anyways, the upper seam part of the radiator looks as if it is leaking? I'm not going to put any stop leak fluid or anything and just get a new radiator. I want to do an engine radiator coolant flush anyways... eventually.
View attachment 17261

This is the driver side UCA. The grease ball is split.
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I've definitely got some work to do now. Keeps my mind busy on things like this instead of "other things".

@4runner DOA Danny, so I'm thinking I'll do the fuel filter and vacuum hoses (well, some of the vacuum hoses, but it's a start anyways). Is it hard to change the ball joint??? I've never done one before?

OR for the ball joint, should I just wait for my Camburgs? I plan on getting my UCA's when I get my tax returns.

You're probably fine until you get the camburgs. They aren't terrible to change, but they're a major pain in the ass to press out sometimes.
 

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I talked about this before but need some first hand input. Who's had a vasectomy? I know @AssBurns has. I just got mine done and need some feedback. Pain after? Recovery time? Swelling? Just want to be aware of how long this is going to last. lol
Pain was only when straining myself. I was 100% within about a week but was fine to tinker in the garage n shit within about 3 days. I avoided any strenuous activity for about a week.
It was mostly just major discomfort. Like if someone was constantly tugging on your nuts.
No swelling that I remember but I did have some bruising. Literal blue balls lol

did you watch them do the procedure? Pretty cool to watch them snip, clamp and burn. Super quick and easy.
 
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