@Old Nick just sent me a message with these comments....
Howdy,
Hoping that this will be of assistance.
I missed out on the group-buy and ended up ordering an entire seal kit from Rubber Seals. They sent out replacement door seals (front and...
Got the new axles in…. And started getting all the brake lines done. In the front I think I’m going to run a line to a Central point, and then come up on the driver side. Typically an 80 Series had two separate lines coming down—one on each...
I been making more adjustments to get ready for the summer fun.
I have known for a while that the shocks needed to be rebuilt, I bought them used with supposedly 10k on them. That must have been a tough 10k as they were tired, so I shipped...
Here is the completed power steering line…. Compression fittings on both ends, that are the original Toyota lines…. Just had a couple hours in the shop tonight, but I got that power steering line in and the transmission lines in to cooler…. Baby...
Got the nice painted axles ready to go in…. But while it’s out, realized it’s a lot easier to get to the power steering line and transmission cooler lines in place…. Took the power steering line to a local hydraulic shop to get them to make it...
Just a FYI
I just finished getting the doors on and have been fighting w the old rubber to get the windows to roll up without a floor jack. Gave up and took it to the window wizard. I had bought the rear door fixed window rubber on ebay as well...
Decided to put the final axles in before running brake lines, and getting this thing to start driving around ….so first step was to tear out these temporary axles. Then went down to the barn and found the old slee 6 inch lift front drop arms...
Fresh off the plane from Australia. Appears to be the right part.
Now to find some time to get it scanned.
Now about my maturity.
They are redoing a 2 mile section of dirt road I have to drive everyday. This means new gravel and big rocks...
There isn’t much room for gear in a 45, so I am working on a rack that that I can remove when I don’t have a camping trip planned. I bought a small universal kit built for a Tacoma and modified it. I got it tacked together.
It looks tall but...
At this point in time, we’re just waiting to see if someone can install the door seals and see if the doors shut. They’ve got everything else boxed up ready to go.
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