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I just got a deal of a life time!!!
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Do we need a fresh thread? I think whatever this is it needs a new thread.
Does it have 800 miles on the odom. or is it 800 miles away?
bobm
WTF, WTF, WTF!!!!
What is it 
?? Neighbors house 
?? Neighbors house
I sure hope it’s the former. Can’t think of a better place for that one to go
RUSH55
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Two hotdogs side by each, 89 cents cash money?!
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I got my Bob M scuff plates, I've been wanting some Bob M parts for my pig for awhile now and he recently found a couple sets of scuff plates. Hopefully I can make some time next week to get them installed.
Thank you Bob.
Thank you Bob.
RUSH55
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Lifetime royalties for the “By Menen” jingle?!
RUSH55
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bobm
WTF, WTF, WTF!!!!
Damn, I thought it was a Rocket 
launcher, Tank or 
thrower ! Something useful 
launcher, Tank or thrower ! Something useful 
Have a set of these on the Frankencruiser. You’ll enjoy them.
Thanks, Bob.
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I'm already enjoying them, if I wasn't neck deep in another project I would have had them installed with proper pictures by now.
Building an FJ40 grill that's balling up all my FJ55 shop time
PabloCruise
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I think he found 1 set...
I got the other set of Bob scuff plates...plus some frame mounts for my 1969 FJ55. They are nice! Thanks again Bob!
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With the PP2020 getting rescheduled I’m going to need to get cracking if I plan on getting everything on my to do list done. I had put the Target Carrier on the back burner as nothing is pressing and I wasn’t planning on taking it out of town until next year so I’m right in the middle of house work, roof, siding and paint.
I changed all the fluids except for the diffs yesterday, I still need to take the front end apart and repack the birfs & replace the crush sleeve with a solid sleeve then look at the rear and see why one of my axle seals is weeping a little oil. I was able to test the LiFePO4 battery box I made a little yesterday and came up with a plan on how to interface it with my current wiring and hopefully keep the electrical fires to a minimum, the new refrigerator/freezer is supposed to be here before the 27th and I would like to have this battery figured out before then and not worry about it on the trail.
I only managed to take one picture yesterday..
Thanks @cruiserjunktion !!!
I changed all the fluids except for the diffs yesterday, I still need to take the front end apart and repack the birfs & replace the crush sleeve with a solid sleeve then look at the rear and see why one of my axle seals is weeping a little oil. I was able to test the LiFePO4 battery box I made a little yesterday and came up with a plan on how to interface it with my current wiring and hopefully keep the electrical fires to a minimum, the new refrigerator/freezer is supposed to be here before the 27th and I would like to have this battery figured out before then and not worry about it on the trail.
I only managed to take one picture yesterday..
Thanks @cruiserjunktion !!!
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@GLTHFJ60 and I were talking a few weeks ago and I mentioned that if I had to do my wiring over I would have added bigger gauge wire running from my batteries to the rear compartment, doing it after the fact now is a PITA and will ultimately need to be redone again most likely when I gut the interior to get my seats reupholstered.
Quick back story, when I built this pig it was going to be a daily driver and handle the occasional 4X4 duties like camping and setting targets out in the desert so things like refrigerators, LiFePO4 batteries, or any of the stuff that makes extended off grid camping more comfortable were never considered during my planning or build stages. Now after the fact we discovered that we enjoy off grid camping for 5/7 days at a time and as any of you that have a significant other know you can only ask them to have beer and beef jerky for three meals a day for so many consecutive days in a row before they start to get grumpy. Slowly I’ve been upgrading our camping kit to make things more comfortable for my bride and make us more efficient when packing up all the gear, we have been kicking around the idea of a refrigerator/freezer but we are limited with available power to do it “right” and tying into the existing system although it would work had the potential for problems on the trail something I’m hoping to avoid installing “luxury” items.
LiFePO4 batteries are the answer to this problem but they need some special considerations on the front side to get all they have to offer, I’m learning as I go so this is an ever changing plan so I first bought a Renogy DCC12 series battery charger (generic 20 amp DC/DC charger) thinking it would help me limit the current to my existing system to something around 20AMPS, in theory I suppose this would have worked but in practice it doesn’t. With the total length of 10gauge wire I tied into I was getting a voltage drop and I was seeing amperage spikes up around 40 AMPS, the DC/DC charger tries to maintain 14.3 volts at 20 AMPS output and will spike the input AMPS when the input voltage drops. My only option if I wanted to keep potential trail issues to a minimum was upgrade the wire size to #8. This is my fifth or sixth attempt to lower the voltage drop and I’m a little pressed for time now and needed to just get something usable for the upcoming camping trip so this is where I’m at now.
I ran some #8 welding cable up to the #8 power wires coming into the cab and attached them to a common lug. This was the easiest least permanent place to grab power and I just ran the leads under the floor mat.
The leads come out under the back side of the front seat and have an Anderson connector so I can disconnect this after the camping trip but still be accessible if needed again before I get time to do it right.
Sorry for all the rambling about nothing but I know a few of you guys are in the planning stage of your builds still and I would strongly encourage you to upsize a circuit running to your rear compartment even if you don’t think you’ll ever need it today, I thought 10 gauge was more than enough 4 year ago.
Quick back story, when I built this pig it was going to be a daily driver and handle the occasional 4X4 duties like camping and setting targets out in the desert so things like refrigerators, LiFePO4 batteries, or any of the stuff that makes extended off grid camping more comfortable were never considered during my planning or build stages. Now after the fact we discovered that we enjoy off grid camping for 5/7 days at a time and as any of you that have a significant other know you can only ask them to have beer and beef jerky for three meals a day for so many consecutive days in a row before they start to get grumpy. Slowly I’ve been upgrading our camping kit to make things more comfortable for my bride and make us more efficient when packing up all the gear, we have been kicking around the idea of a refrigerator/freezer but we are limited with available power to do it “right” and tying into the existing system although it would work had the potential for problems on the trail something I’m hoping to avoid installing “luxury” items.
LiFePO4 batteries are the answer to this problem but they need some special considerations on the front side to get all they have to offer, I’m learning as I go so this is an ever changing plan so I first bought a Renogy DCC12 series battery charger (generic 20 amp DC/DC charger) thinking it would help me limit the current to my existing system to something around 20AMPS, in theory I suppose this would have worked but in practice it doesn’t. With the total length of 10gauge wire I tied into I was getting a voltage drop and I was seeing amperage spikes up around 40 AMPS, the DC/DC charger tries to maintain 14.3 volts at 20 AMPS output and will spike the input AMPS when the input voltage drops. My only option if I wanted to keep potential trail issues to a minimum was upgrade the wire size to #8. This is my fifth or sixth attempt to lower the voltage drop and I’m a little pressed for time now and needed to just get something usable for the upcoming camping trip so this is where I’m at now.
I ran some #8 welding cable up to the #8 power wires coming into the cab and attached them to a common lug. This was the easiest least permanent place to grab power and I just ran the leads under the floor mat.
The leads come out under the back side of the front seat and have an Anderson connector so I can disconnect this after the camping trip but still be accessible if needed again before I get time to do it right.
Sorry for all the rambling about nothing but I know a few of you guys are in the planning stage of your builds still and I would strongly encourage you to upsize a circuit running to your rear compartment even if you don’t think you’ll ever need it today, I thought 10 gauge was more than enough 4 year ago.
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Yeah I'm going to have to put some thought into a permanent solution, sitting around a camp fire with a few smart guys like you having adult beverages is going to go a long way to speeding up my learning curve.
I believe I used #6 wire running back for future frig., but that's all I know, so don't ask no questions.
Put your batteries in the center of the truck and all your wire runs are shorter 
