Mine will operate normally IF I hot-wire it. Either the switch at the latch inside the tailgate has failed, or the wiring has been flexed one too many times and has broken.
Having looked at this several different times I think the best approach is simply park off the side of the freeway and hike up to it from there. My info is decades old so it may have changed, but it is that the guy who owns that private land on the East side of Afton Cyn Rd. is not the friendly...
Common problem, lots of write-ups on this on the Full Size Broncos forum. The fix usually involves replacing some wires and adding some relays. On mine I suspect that the wires going into the tail-gate have work-hardened and broken.
Wow Dusty! I can get a sense of just how much time you've put into this, and it isn't trivial!
I haven't been back to that specific area since that trip. Shortly after that trip I re-read Shortfuse's section on it and realized that we were in the wrong canyon to find the tunnel, which we knew...
I was hoping for more date input, but I think that we'll need to run with what we have. 10th-12th it is.
Now for where. I've been pondering a vast number of permutations and combinations. Most critical is the meet-up place. Today on the drive home I decided to make it Peggy Sue's in Yermo. Most...
Been working on When. The best weekend for me is Oct. 10-12 with Oct. 24-26 a distant second.
The Where I'm still working on. Our group's usual rule is to stay under 100 miles/day. That long day at Calico when we went out to the Husky Monument a hunnert years ago or so was just short of that...
So now that it's starting to cool off out there let's revive this. Let's keep it to three days or less. Most can squeeze a Friday easier than a Monday, so let's say meet up somewhere Thursday eve or Friday morning with the plan to split up sometime Sunday afternoon. There will be no base camp...
There is a vendor who frequents the Pomona Swap Meet who deals in all sorts of automotive manuals, repair manuals, owner's manuals, etc,
If they still have any, can also try Helm.com for some factory manuals.
Can also try Aerobooks in Burbank (?) although that's a little outside their normal.
The best kit is the one that you have with you. <- Learned that one the hard way.
After that I think it comes down to personal preference. I've not seen the ARB kit, no doubt it's a decent kit. I have several of the Safety Seal kits and at least one kit made up from individual tool purchases...