Mike Shull

One more of the ambulance doors

Today , Christmas came early. The freight forwarder called to inform me that I had a pretty heavy wooden crate to pick up 🥳🥳👏👏👏👏. I rushed up there and sure enough, it was my upper rear cab panel and a pair of brand new ambulance doors for my FJ...

Drove 45swb to the airport to fly out and pickup the 45lv only seemed right

And after posting, I realized the person at the back of the pickup looks like they aren’t wearing pants! Was pretty sure it was someone in pinkish-purple yoga pants….

I ran All Pro high steer on my 40 for 25 years and it never failed.

My fuseable link used to be by the right hood louvers and it was a 30 amp link if I remember correctly. My amp meter leads used to be fed directly from that fuseable link. I replaced mine with a 30 amp breaker and I have a separate lead going...

I have a R2.8 in my 40. My advice is to drive one before you pull the trigger. I'd go a different route knowing what I know now. On road it's fine. Delivers adequate power and returns 20-21mpg. Vibrates a lot. Especially annoying at idle...

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Nice! This is going to be a completely different Cruiser!!

Started the t-case regear for 4:1 gears.

Ha! There is a spoken language in Colorado that connects most everything to being in the outdoors. S’more here, and I thought everyone else, meant “some more”, indicating that you want another marshmallow, chocolate bar and graham cracker. I’ll...

Us here midwesterners have done made a secret code to talk around them there colorado people.

I thought that you all were talking about s’mores.

No clue. Diesels are magic. Pour fuel to them, they make more power. That's through injectors and the injection pump. EGT's too hot? Push more air through with a better turbo. Still too hot, dump water down the hole. Most people dont do...

There used to be a Toyota dealership in Colorado that was selling SBC (I don’t recommend) converted 40s in the 60s with a 1-year warranty and they shipped them in from California. I wasn’t around but I’ve seen ads that my dad collected from that...

What sort of mods are you doing to a 606 to get this power range? This seems over triple the factory torque specs, right? What ballpark cost are we talking?

Just occurred to me this morning. I'd bet on whoever is 8000+ lbs and has a 240:1 final gear ratio.

Easily. Especially on a light load like that. 30k pounds? I'd want more displacement and a more cooling. Enter the 5.9 Cummins. Heavier yet? I love me a 6-71. 2 stroke diesels give me a boner. Meh. If Matt gets cranky he can toss me...

I do have a relative in Gillette, WY I asked him about trails around the Freeze Out area. He said they were just up there. His words were "That area will not disappoint and you should see lots of moose up there." I thought that sounded really...

Thanks, Alan! I do need to check these out and I didn’t realize that he was uploading them to Apple podcasts. I’ll check it out this morning.

I’m willing to give a 606 a go if you think that it can spin 40” tires at 65 mph up I-70 from Denver. Come to CO and we will hook some weight to you and you can show me 😊. I’d love to have better fuel mileage. Perhaps this would be a great...

That 606 would never hold up to the task in my Cruiser. I’d kill it on I-70 at 10,000lbs with the camper and gear in tow. I would probably have to use double low to make it to the top. I remember those days with the 2F trying to pull Kenosha Pass...

Those angles on mine have changed a bit since March because I had to lift it a few inches to get the right travel from the shocks. I probably lowered my front shock towers too far when I was adjusting them for shorter shocks, which was a good...

Ya I'm very jealous of how flat your panhard and steering are. I have been driving it more and just got used to the way it steers for now. Maybe this winter I'll take the front axle out and convert from the stock Ford ladder bars to a true...

Today was a great day ! We got a lot done. I took pictures of some of the work we got done last week but did not have time to post. The 80 series I'm using as a donor had been imported from Japan. It was a right hand drive that had been...