BamaHeel

So that gets me up to current time. 9 months. Thats a long time and I appreciate how patient Brendan has been. My next two were scheduled to leave the west coast of Saudi on the 15th but Iran decided to lob missles all over the Persian Gulf so...

Terrible at posting updates, but we finished it Friday afternoon and I loaded it up to head to the Ozark’s this weekend. Truck did great, drove way better than I thought it would for just driving it around the block before we left. 4.88s and low...

Couple pics of the low range gears and modification to the housing you have to make. Pretty straight forward.

Decided against the Dobinson VT coils after recently checking the price on them. I bought a pair of Flexi springs back in 2019 and hadn’t realized they’re a small fortune now… Anyways, I decided to run a pretty common 80 OME spring setup. 2850J...

Axle is under the truck. Radius arms mounted and some old springs & shocks in for mock up.

I bought this LX back in 2016 for my wife to drive. I did a few small upgrades (AHC lift, Japan4x4 shock spacers (for sale), Ironman bumper, 200 wheels on 33” TG’s, homemade sliders, and I also swapped in a ‘99 LC factory locked axle. We sold it...

@Godwin camped out at the shop last night on his way to catch some lizards and s***. I put him to work helping me put the 2F on a pallet and move the Goat into temporary housing. I was planning on getting the new motor this weekend but Rory is...

We sent off a bunch of parts to get powder-coated and Cerakoted while we worked on replacing timing belt/water pump, all hoses (fuel/coolant) and resealed the FT. We removed the head, sent it to machine shop to get checked over and then installed...

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Got the next one secured today

Yes, he wanted his wife to be able to drive it and anyone in his family. Keeping it Auto was by far the most challenging part of this swap. We grafted the FT harness in with the factory FZ harness with a FT cluster (in MPH). It was countless...

We are doing a diesel conversion for a customer’s ‘96 FZJ80. We decided on a 1HD-FT out of a ‘96 HDJ81 with a A442 and HF2A. We will document the build and progress here.

So……..neither of us liked the way the 285/75-17s and 3” wide big brakes looked on the 75 so …. Off with their heads. Back with the 70 brakes and no spacers and the comparable size SWAMPER LTB 34x10.50-15 on smoothie Vintique wheels.