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A few more of summer trips.
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Which size of wheel and tire did you end up with. I haven’t seen it in person since it’s been built up
(12HT may be my favorite motor)
Please tell me about which license plate light/mount you used. I'm lucky to have not gotten pulled over yet with 70% of my plate hidden behind my spare tire, but I haven't driven through Provo either.Wiring the license plate light and reverse lights. I threaded some holes in the @TRAIL TAILOR bumper. Really happy with the setup.
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Fueling up for my trip to Montana. I pulled a ~2500lb trailer up there and it pulled it without problems. Coming home I calculated an impressive 19.5mpg. That gives me nearly 700-750 miles on a single fill
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I absolutely love driving it. The power output is great (12HT may be my favorite motor) and the suspension rides/handles really well. I'm still debating the front bumper. I dont love the porch/PTO but it hasnt stopped me on my travels thus yet and the light duty exploring is exaxtly what I envision it seeing down the road too.
I'm part of a volunteer off-road recovery team here in Utah, basically we do recovery in places commercial tow operators cant/wont. We had a call for a rolled Jeep last week and the HJ61 was the perfect machine. I pulled it backwards as we winched it upright.
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Please tell me about which license plate light/mount you used. I'm lucky to have not gotten pulled over yet with 70% of my plate hidden behind my spare tire, but I haven't driven through Provo either.
I like it! I've looked at a few and none have yet seemed quality enough. And as many times as I have paid tickets for a perfectly functional license plate lights (VW days), I haven't yet been stopped in my 60. PM sent.It's a non-US Hilux plate mount modified to use the 40 Series License plate light.
I could set you up with the parts, the bracket is ~$20 and the license plate light is $22.50. I did have to drill through my license plate but it's a clean solution for my wants/needs.
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It's a non-US Hilux plate mount modified to use the 40 Series License plate light.
I could set you up with the parts, the bracket is ~$20 and the license plate light is $22.50. I did have to drill through my license plate but it's a clean solution for my wants/needs.
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Hello Kurt ..
It's a LED one .?
Alright, how married to keeping things original am I? I have a 5spd manual HJ61 with a vacuum shift 2WD/4WD split transfer case. It arrived from Japan without any stateside service work by my request. I got it up on the lift to do full fluid change and found some Japan local FIPG repair on the tcase and a nearly stripped tcase fill plug, glued in with more FIPG. It wasn't leaking so I swapped fluids and considered it a future Kurt problem.
Fast forward a few years and it's on the lift again. I had a leaking front output seal and a weeping PTO seal. No biggie, drain the case and swap seals. The front output flange had a bit of wear on the seal surface so I swapped flanges. In the process I found that the front output has a tad bit of play at the bearing. Time for a rebuild, no biggie. But between the play in the front shaft, the stripped fill plug and whatever leak they caulked up on the bottom... I'm really considering just installing a brand new manual 2-4wd split case, I know a guy with a few dozen of them The only thing hanging me up is ditching the vacuum shift (novelty) on an otherwise completely rebuildable/repairable case. It's not a beauty queen and it's not bone stock, I've added suspension, sliders, a rear bumper and long range fuel tank. Everything about the manual shift is more reliable really. I've given less thought to a home purchase
One of my biggest hangups would be the mismatched pattern on the glovebox door decal
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