OffRoadScott

New register day

In classic fashion, I lost the injection line hold down clamps. Stedman for the win again.

What an absolute fine piece of metal.

15 minutes after ripping out the rear main seal, she shows up. Lol. boys, it's soon to be ****ing goooo time.

Ordered Boost/EGT/Water gauge and sensor kits, ordered tap kit. should all be here today. Tapping pre-turbo in the exhaust manifold. Called my local Toyota dealer to order the rear main seal, they gave me a 3-5 day estimate. Found one locally at...

15 dollar part is out!

I use this one up front charges phones fast. I will say a while back I saw where someone melted their socket with something they probably shouldn't have plugged in. No issues with this one so far. https://a.co/d/2vZHQyA

There's an LRA auxiliary tank installed on this Cruiser. Instead of using the Y-pipe filler that LRA provides with the tank, @SNLC used the OEM filler neck and valve that comes equipped on Land Cruisers with OEM sub-tank. The extended knob is to...

Oh ya, we chemically stripped these body panels too, only parts not touched yet are doors. Sill working on these plus need to do doors but we are going to bare metal on everything and ya it’s a friggin’ ton of work! 😐🤌 Cheers

Block sanding for days, more skim coats of filler and more block sanding. Another coat of 2k primer extra thick, more block sanding. *sigh* Not sure why I am getting this agro on level of detail when I just plan to wrap a bunch of the body...

Oh yeah, most of the parts are NLA so we just made them to make it work as Toyota intended. Cheers

Slick Rock continued: And Rubithon 2025

Few random updates. Put some brake lights on the Pakmule hitch basket Bought a fancy camp light (Devos Light Ranger 2000) Finally bought me a trail welder For father's day my wife got me this really cool Hot Wheels replica of my 80...

Hz105/1hd pan and pickup are on! This evening im going to put the exhaust manifold/turbo assembly back on. i might test fit her in the 80, well see.

Not much done today/tonight had to get some work done. Motor mount changed to hd/hz Got the oem engine harness off, Checked turbo shaft for excessive play, good to know its fine. This might come back and bite me in the ass, but the rear...

Moved in our daughter to college.

Wasn't this weekend but back in March finished upper the PHH delete kit. Engine sounds much better, seems to have way more power and gets 20mpg now. Highly recommend.

Auto is heavy...

Got the exhaust manifold/turbo assembly off, phone died as I was taking the picture lol. Ill check on the turbo tomorrow and see if there is any shaft play. Productive day, tomorrow im going to separate the transmission, and change the oil pan.

Tried to get replace spare keys , local ACE only had valet key . Going to dealer see if they have key . Season still hot here in Florida .

Back40imports got back to me, transmission kit is shipping Monday. Hoping to have it Wednesday, and the engine in the lx450/80 same day.

Removed these. Do they have any value or should I just scrap them? Happy to send to anyone that pays me a couple bucks for beer and covers shipping. Both seemed to be working when removed.

All fluids are drained Engine is ready to pull, only thing holding it up are four bolts holding the transmission/transfercase crossmember. Ill take those out when I have a jack under it and we're actively pulling it out. Maybe tonight.

Committed now!