Recent content by Crazjtk

Wound up as in tangled in the cable? Or Wound up as in excited? Tangle-wise, the retracting cable helps a lot with that. And the last 18 inch segment is an elastic, so if he reaches the end of it, it doesn't snap taut. Excitement-wise, I am going to hazard a guess that he spent a lot of time on...

Once again, I am reminded of how bad I am at posting updates. This spring I did what I said I was gonna in the last post, I put a floor in my roof rack. Since the rack is more than 4 feet wide in both directions, I kinda had to piece it together out of 2 sheets of expanded steel. I set the 2...

Oh hey, will you look at that, it's been... THREE YEARS?!? Ah jeez... So in my last post I said I was gonna build a center console out of a 40mm ammo can? Well I didn't. It's still sitting on the floor in the garage. I did something else though! First I pulled out the old tube fuse block...

I wondered... Thanks! Good to know!

I have a welder, a can-do attitude, and a desire to not spend $2000 and/or wait 6 months on a roof rack. But rather than driving myself nuts trying to engineer my own rain gutter clamps, I'm just going to use the ones Specter Off-Road sells for 40-some bucks. I have a question about the sizing...

That looks a lot like the basics of what I’m planning! I’m gonna add some cupholders and a bit of padding on the top too.

Well look at that, it's been over a year again. Oops. I guess I'll give a few little updates. About a month after I finished the bumper, I took it on a little inaugural trip for an afternoon off-road picnic. Drove it down into the first puddle and promptly got stuck. No biggie, that's what the...

Some time ago a vehicle importer I follow had a 4X-series with a woody hardtop. He claimed it was a rare factory option. I politely disagreed, because it looked homemade as heck. (And I know at least a little bit about Land Cruisers)

Yup, in-line pump. All I really cared about was making the truck run in time for that trip. And now I still haven't replaced the injection pump because a new one costs $1300.

No, both the arm and bumper are smooth-bored. the bottom end of the bolt has a lock nut on it. Literally just finished last night, one drive around today, so I haven’t had a lot of time to check for rattles, but I haven’t noticed any as standing out to me.

I built a bumper. It's pretty easy when you're social-distanced at home, but home has a welder and a nice garage. When last I posted, I had gotten my steel order delivered, but hadn't started building. Well here's the whole bumper build in one convenient post! Vacuum-packed for maximum...

It was just a bog-standard off-the-shelf fuel pump from the nearest auto parts store. I can take a look at it later and see if there’s any info on the outside of it, but this was definitely a lucky fix, not a well-researched plan. All I know is that the truck doesn’t lean out at WOT, so it must...

Not a ton of pictures to share, but I’ll give a little update. I brought Kiwi into the garage so we can start the rear bumper build. That’s dad’s Nissan Patrol on the lift. Pulled the step and light guards off and got some measurements. Steel is already here and just waiting to get cut. I...

Wow, It's been over a year. I have a year's worth of adventures and pictures, might as well share a few of 'em! First, here's a shot of my first day properly driving the rig to work I managed to have it on the road for about 2 weeks of shakedown before the original goal/deadline: Overland...

If I were still looking for side panels over three years later I’d be kind of disappointed in myself. I ended up patching mine up.