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I know I’m going to regret it if I don’t deal with the rust in the floor pan joint now.

Picked the troopy up from Terrain Tamer. @orangefj45 did the final check and wheel alignment. Replaced the H151 with a H152. I drove it home. First long (100 miles) trip. Love the way it handles. IP needs a bit more tuning. The turbo lags...

I've had some chores to take care of, but finally got back to that wobble in the transfer case front output shaft. The front drive shaft came off easily from output shaft flange, revealing a loose stake nut on the output shaft. I torqued it the...

My shirt arrived downunder thanks :) am I allowed to wear it now or do I have to wait till September :p

The vdj76

I imported my JDM 74 from Canada but I have 2 minitrucks direct from Japan. The biggest difficulty is finding someone you trust over there. The mini dump truck I received in June has worse rust in the frame than I was not expecting. Get lots...

We install a ton of weld-on brackets for this mod on lifted 80 and 100 Series Land Cruisers, as well as 4Runners, GXs, and FJ Cruisers. But we noticed there wasn’t a good option on the market for the coil spring 70 Series rear axle—which could...

After seven months of searching all over the world I found a BJ42 that fitted my budget and wasn’t rotten in Lithuania back in May. Today it finally arrived here in the UK. 1980 BJ42, has been fully restored about 7yrs ago. There are going to be...

I have read bad stories about putting synthetic in old engines - as it cleans them out way too well. If I had a new engine then I'm all for fully synthetic and Shell has a T6 version

an easy thing to try is a different set of wheels and tyres on the front to see what happens to the shimmy

Please , please amigo do not replace your oem door cards with something like this ! I will summon las brujas del rio to come and haunt you if you do ;-)

have you checked to see if the trans cooler is leaking into the radiator

is there a trans cooler in the radiator?

First start up last night!!!

@richmason - I’ve direct messaged you the pics.

I wouldn't put much faith in those Wikipedia numbers, that page is a mess. It states that the 3.2 litre 2B has more power than the 3.4 litre 3B, which doesn't really make sense. I think the 98 HP quoted for the 14B is either not a direct...

is the work and cost of a 3b to 14b swap worthwhile with an 8hp gain before a turbo install

The 4Runner doesn’t have the soul of a 70 series 🤷‍♂️

There are probably better threads out there than anything I’m going to document but I thought it might be worth something to share my work. I’m not an experienced welder or body guy so this will be the average (or below average) joes body job...

This is probably well known by most but I learned taking this apart that the fender comes off before the apron. The apron slides over the front frame/body horn and can’t be removed without taking off the entire front sheet metal with the radiator...

The biggest challenge I ran into having rustoration work done in Liberia 12 years ago was the unavailability of quality preservation and rust proofing chemicals. I brought as many Eastwood products as I could in my luggage but it often wasn’t...

I see a lot of back and forth but nothing useful here. 1. Have you actually looked under the truck for leaks? Is the master cylinder full? 2. Have you bled the brakes furthest to closest and confirmed no air? I see you bled but nothing about...

got the fender off. The outer fender comes off with the inner fender as they are tightly joined with glue and at least one spot weld. Both rows of bolts in the fender liner have to be removed. The liner stays in place. In order to remove the...

I've gotten this combo out for a few trips in July already, mostly within a few hours of home. I'm hoping to have my gullwing window before the end of the summer, but the duct tape tint is holding for now.