Recent content by mirfjc

Phew. 'Cause I heard the MAF sacrifice small children. Seriously, I've bought from Bud and from MAF and (shock) both area great companies and great guys.

If you have any issues, I'm sure Steve at x105 at MAF will be able to talk you through any and all aspects. There's also an install post here.

I don't know of a hinge roof rack, but there is a gobi low profile. Look under the FJ parts section on the Man-A-Fre website.

High pressure water hose. Spray, don't soak.

My understanding is that a broken ARB airlocker fails abit more gracefully than an elocker. But I've never had a failure. Insofar as they both lock, the airlocker isn't really an upgrade. It would be very low on my mod list, after pretty much everything else. In fact, I have a front ARB...

There's some silly story out there as to why ARB is doing that for the OME 886 - if only I can remember. But the gist is some people were screwing up install or something and then blaming OME. ARB/OME are not actually discontinuing the coil - just covering their butt for something. One should...

Go MAF I gotta chime in for MAF/4+. Excellent skids. Very solid, very well made, very easy to maintain. Cover everything. Nothing better out there.

Triple threat I now have my full set of three louvers on the truck. The rear, long louver now does the job of the air intake cut through (that'll make sense if you read my first post), so arguably, I don't need the cut through anymore. My major issue with the cut through was that, being the...

Also ask Demello Offroad for what it would take to reproduce Sol's system. Sol: is this even viable?

The ADD system on the auto (can't remember what the acronym stands for) automatically disconnects one side of the front axle from the diff. The front drive shaft does not rotate. It is designed to minimize the amount of "drag spin" in the non driven (in 2wd) front drive train.

ADD? Doesn't the ADD system on the AT part-time FJC's mean that only 1/2 of the front axle is spinning, and the front diff and drive shaft are disconnected? I looked at the website, and the locking/unlocking hubs are like $1,400. That might be steep to solve the problem for the few parts that...

There is no reason why they couldn't. We were trying to figure out the combo (AT with part time and MT with full time) and couldn't see why except maybe Toyota was trying to twin a particular traction style (the center diff) with the MT for marketing purposes. Options exist in the...

Imagine this, but with the pattern of louvers reversed (long central louver up near the windscreen, rather than down near the grill: Glad your truck is making parole! :) Mine's back in for bad behaviour (blew out the joints on some aftermarket upper rear arms...)

Yeah, this looks a little smoother :) Nice. BTW: I just got my matching left side louver and my rear hood louver with hood cuts put in. I'll post up photos when I get them. I may now close up the cabin intake / engine bay vents that we cut.

tested Just wanted to give feedback after a bunch of runs. Ended up doing two good days in Death Valley on rocky stuff, and a few more runs since. The skids held up great. I tried to steer over obstacles to scrape the bolt heads off, but they survived just fine. We had my truck back up on...