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What is everyone using for a skid plate on their 80's pickups. Tried searching here and the inter-web, not much came up. Using a single transfer case still. Photo of my 85 attached for eye candy.

I called there to make my camping reservation as well for Wednesday and to leave my tow rig there and they said not to worry about it there will be plenty of camping spots for Wednesday night. I think I called this Wednesday to make that reservation

Here are the photos of my linkage and the current offset. Going to get the offset fixed this week. Bought the stock nub so there will not be rubbing on the exhaust.

Sounds good, thanks.

Doug, I may need to add a breakfast to my invoice. Easier to just add it when we are up there and just pay the dinner?

Have installed and front bumper/winch and welded ruff stuff sliders to the old girl already. But finally painted and installed the Marlin Crawler rear bumper. Now to start working on the rust spots all over the vehicle.

That Preston piece looks like rubber is that correct

My thought is to remove the knot on the back completely and just have a knob the correct height and width for that slot on the transfer case welded to make that adjustment therefore removing the night to muffler/exhaust rubbing issue

There was no fitting that bushing in that correct order I could barely fit the smaller rubber bushing in between the mounting location and there was no way to put that above so I had to work with what I had

I’m Going to my welder buddies house tomorrow and he’s going to fix the alignment on the current shifter here’s some photos it only has to be shorten 1/2 of an inch and then he can weld a something on the end.

The universal kit worked great. We will see how durable it is.

They have everything. Just what I was looking for. guess I have no excuses to start me overlanding trailer build

Ordered, we will see how it works. Should be here sometime next week.

Thanks for the input, gonna order it and see what happens. Thanks for the link. Gonna order it and see what happens. Looks close enough to work. Even with the bolt provided.

Ordered the Crown Auto Body Mount - J5459515. We will see if it works. Called Crown and asked them for the dimensions of the bushing. The Tech guy had no idea. Could not tell me anything. I will need to go source the washers for them as well.

Removed the passenger side rubber yesterday. Don't have the washers, not sure where they ended up. I am addressing the linkage hopefully with the bushing. And I have checked the dline and trans pan, they clear fine. Did you just buy a...

So my transfer case uses the Advance Adapters plate to mount the transfer case. The bolts holding the mount to the frame are about 3/4 diameter with a 15/16 head. I will get exact measurements when I get home tonight. Looking on the Advance...

185-190. During normal driving

It works well enough. I had to take the shroud off and move it to the front again and use a clutch fan on the front. The clutch fan moves more air and the the Derale wiring is easy. Have it controlled by my MSD atomic controller. Its a 2...

Signed up today.

Probably coming on the breakfast run again this year Doug. You will remember my red FJ40 from last year. But I may bring the 85 pickup this year. We will see which one is running better as we get closer.