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Mud flaps finished, took some customizing on the rear. Cheers

Winch finished. Cheers

It was the rear exhaust hanger. Mine comes out on the passenger side.

Just curious if the broken exhaust hanger is the one near the drivers rear wheel. Mine is also broken and needs repair… Enjoy hunting season!

A little maintenance this weekend. Yesterday I got a much needed welding job on a broken exhaust hanger. Today was an oil change. 21,441 kms or about 13,332 miles. The last oil change was at around 9,000 miles. Runs like a top and is now ready...

I’ve not needed to do injectors, but it may have something to do with what euro spec they are, as the 1VD motor was put in the 200 and 7x series, and then sold in developed and developing countries, each with their own emissions specs. However, I...

It’s official, I’m calling it. I put in 15 miles of forest service roads without any popping. It was that flipping rock hiding back in there. How it made it in between the frame and body to be wedged back in there must have been lottery odds...

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The Cruiser is out for LineX in the bed. Cheers

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So the Decked is for a 05-23’ Tacoma with the 5ft bed. It’s the closest we could find to a plug and play system. It did require some plastic carving between the wheel wells at the front of the bed to fit it. Here is how we have setup the...

Just, wow.

Yeah. I don’t think this failure has anything to do with locking while moving. The carrier absolutely has to be moving to lock. The locker CANNOT lock at a standstill. The only thing that will happen if you engage the locker at a standstill will...

For those that don’t quite understand how the Eaton e-locker for our trucks works here’s a good video. It’s always been my thought that if the truck was moving and for some reason the locker wouldn’t couldn’t physically engage due to bind or...

Wow! That’s some crazy breakage. I have Harrop/Eaton E-lockers FR/RR on my VDJ200 & VDJ79. Granted I’m only rolling on 285/70R17’s on both of them, but I’ve never had engagement/disengagement issues. Then again, I stop completely to engage and...

Could be. When we looked at the back half of the mount (which broke free) it looked like it only had welds at the edges, not in the center. But we were on the trail and weren’t inspecting it closely, our goal was to get the truck off the trail...

I really do like that this Troopy has the wide nose body yet the older dash. You could actually get 70-series like this the first few years of the wide nose, so like 2008-10’ish. See what I mean about the black/grey dash and now door cards...

Looking at that photo from the perspective of being someone who trained and worked as a welder, it certainly wasn’t tack welded. That’s a full seam weld that goes all the way around. Looks just like mine as far as a weld is concerned. These...

Same issue here but I’ve managed to get it to quiet down with a small amount of this sprayed where the UCA bushing is slightly exposed.

I’ve not had issues with the ball joints on mine, but my SPC UCA’s are maybe 5-6 yrs old. My issues is the control arm bushings. They wear so quickly, and must be re-greased far too frequently, at least for my application. If I had to choose on a...

Back from the paint shop! Cheers

Wiring harness finalized. Cheers

Oh ya, here are the backing plates for the table, used Sikaflex to adhere them. Cheers

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Yup, love the vector 5s on a 200 series. Probably my favorite wheel aesthetics wise. At this point I have seen 6-7 failures. I have had terrible exposure to anything Icon. I was rooting for their alloys. This is the second one I cracked. The...