Wheels and tires.
I fell in love with these Mickeys about the time they came out. I was making my day trip to Hot Springs for the Crawl and there was a mini truck on 1 tons rocking these things.
I almost wet my pants.
These are DOT street...
I discovered after spending ten of thousands of dollars on the best, heavy duty upgraded Toyota parts over the years that once you get over 37” tires you are on borrowed time.
Eventually the repeated shock load is going to kill it. Somewhere...
So why Bedouin?
Funny story.
I took Meshal to Windrock two years ago for the 70 event.
We see some peckerwood redneck on a Banshee 4 wheeler and Meshal said “hahah look at that Bedouin “
I realized that’s the Saudi word for redneck...
What the driveline going to be you ask?
A few months ago I got a killer deal on a set of DS Trac axles. These are Dynatrac copies made in Brazil.
Big heavy ass axles with 35 and 40 spline axles and air lockers. 5.38 gears.
I’ll be running...
So, why a FZJ75?
As most of you know, I import Saudi trucks with @Meshal
We’ve done 35 or so now and the easiest truck for him to source there is the 75. They are everywhere and now that the 79 is importable the prices on these are down as...
I poked around a little a few months back to see if anyone had and good 70/73/75 crawler ideas.
https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/75-rock-crawlers.1376137/
I have been collecting parts and finally the day came and @Ozark cruiser picked it up...