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Hell yes, we stand behind our products and no you are not the first or the last to break our stuff. If you wheel you have failures and yes even our stuff fails. Like all of our products it was first designed by me for my needs and I put in the...

Looks like you do some rock crawling. Me too…. Bolt on products are not always the end all be all solution for knuckleheads like us. I’d weld that back together and go see how long it takes to break it again.

How much you have done in recent history has me ready to jump off of a bridge! BTW, fender flares are fragile and over rated. My property demands a lot of my time this time of year so Cruiser time is skinny, very skinny. Keep me motivated!

Tossed the roof rack and awning on and got most of the flares installed.

@Broski they are the Slee 6" shocks. I spent a good amount of time on the phone with folks discussing the ins and outs of the available shocks and doing a bunch of internet research. The Slee shocks are built by ADS (Arizona Desert Shock) and...

Here my 80 series with Open Country MTs 37x13.5x17. 3 inch OME lift with 2 inch front coil space and 1 inch rear spacer.

Get after it …..

And the number 1 reason for doing the rattle can paint job....using the build funds for more important parts...like quality shocks.

You might consider replacing the hot water control valve. It looks old.

the heater control valve has no control! Yes you need to hook up the valve correctly, you just need a couple hoses and clamps to achieve this. looks like someone bypassed the rear heater but did not know what they were doing. Search rear heater...

Wow, long time since I posted this. My 308k mi steering box is leaking like a seive. I tried to ignore it, but it kept getting worse. I picked up a spare steering box from ebay, and have rebuilt it. So far, so good. Can anyone share the...

We did 4700 miles from NC to AZ and back in 2017 on the original headgasket. The only "issue" was stock gears and 35's didn't play well on the super long climbs at 7K feet. At one point, I just wanted to give the Cruiser a rest and pulled over...

Just send it! That’s half the fun isn’t it? I drove 6k + miles out to southern Arizona from NY and back in my 80 with 240k miles in May of last year. At the time it had OG head gasket, water pump and everything else untouched. I did replace the...

A bent spindle could cause this, but the spindle is a part of the rear axle housing ($$$). I personally would confirm rear axle alignment with respect to the front. Run a string (or use alignment plates) between the front and rear rotors, on...

The panhard (track bar) would have to be put back the way it was from the factory because it and the drag link from steering gear box to the left side steering arm, that you need to source, must be very close to parallel.

I don’t know off the top of my head how much the double ended steering arm for the left knuckle costs but that’s a small part of the total cost because of all the fabrication work that needs to be done. If you can do your own fab work then the...

First I have seen.. Are there bearings in the pivot and are they greaseable? That looks like a ton of extra leverage on the frame, which is prone to cracking there. They also cut the frame. More joints to loosen over time, leading to sloppy...

I wanted my tire carrier on the left (drivers) side so I would have a better view backing up. I now realize that was not really an issue to begin with. Later on, I installed my awning on the left side as well. Now when we use the awning a giant...

You are living the life man!

Also did an oil change last week at 162,000 miles.

Took it for a day trip to test out an old canoe I got for free and to do some hiking.

REAR HATCH LIGHT Several years ago I installed an old Camry dome light on the rear tailgate hatch to provide some additional lighting. It worked okay but wasn't great. Wanted to increase the light output but I needed something that was low...

Replacing the head is not overly complicated. The FSM has very good step by step instructions. It gets interesting once you start to tackle all the "while I'm in there" projects and yours has a level if complexity with the LPG system.

The only regret I have is not buying a second car sooner. Maintenance and projects were no longer driven by what could be done in a weekend. I no longer had to guess on what parts I would need. I could take two weeks to do a front end axle seal...

Lift up that carpet on the drivers side and check the floor pan