I’m still in awe of the design of the slip springs, with built in rock sliders… I would love to see this vehicle in person and then in action, maybe even more so than the other builds you’ve done. I’ve owned a built 80, I own a built 200 and 79...
What we are doing is building a trail truck that will do 70mph comfortable with one hand and then hit the toughest trails in America then hit the road again. Not a trailer queen. No compromise in component placement because there were toyota...
Transmission is getting mounted totally different anyway and I need to optimize room and position with the big np205 hanging off the lhs behind the black box so moving it over is the right way and will make it tits
15 w 50 mobile synthetic has high zinc too for a good synthetic option that’s what I run in all my 1fz engines and proving its performance with over 450,000 miles records with no issues
So why Bedouin?
Funny story.
I took Meshal to Windrock two years ago for the 70 event.
We see some peckerwood redneck on a Banshee 4 wheeler and Meshal said “hahah look at that Bedouin “
I realized that’s the Saudi word for redneck...
I discovered after spending ten of thousands of dollars on the best, heavy duty upgraded Toyota parts over the years that once you get over 37” tires you are on borrowed time.
Eventually the repeated shock load is going to kill it. Somewhere...