Hello all fellow cruiser heads.
Long time lurker here (was a member many moons ago but forgot my login), and long time cruiser freak. This post is dual purpose as I do have a question or two for you all however also an introduction given this is my first post technically.
I'm a self employed mechanic and fabricator in the north of New England, been at it for about 20 years now. I've involved myself with many branches of the auto world from street car performance to off road, body work, Fab, electronics and all the rest. 4x4 and specifically Toyota 4x4 has always been my primary interest however.
Over the years I've found myself engineering and producing for sale many solutions to problems on cars of my interest and doing so pretty successfully. I currently have a handful of things I intend to prototype for testing on the 80 series as that's my current project. One being an affordable cable locker conversion which I'm working on now as well as bumpers and a few mechanical goodies.
My question I have is this: what do you all wish was an available part or upgrade for these things that just isn't out there yet? My fabrication skills are top notch and my abilities as far as equipment are limited to small to medium runs of things but high quality construction. Basically anything that fits within the bounds of machining, fabricating, and or moderate complexity engineering.
I realize this may be something that has been asked before and I realize being my first post, many will shrug off with a "yeah, yeah, one of these guys again" but I will assure I am bringing a passion to the table with this stuff.
So what is it you guys wish was out there?
Thanks for reading and cheers.
Long time lurker here (was a member many moons ago but forgot my login), and long time cruiser freak. This post is dual purpose as I do have a question or two for you all however also an introduction given this is my first post technically.
I'm a self employed mechanic and fabricator in the north of New England, been at it for about 20 years now. I've involved myself with many branches of the auto world from street car performance to off road, body work, Fab, electronics and all the rest. 4x4 and specifically Toyota 4x4 has always been my primary interest however.
Over the years I've found myself engineering and producing for sale many solutions to problems on cars of my interest and doing so pretty successfully. I currently have a handful of things I intend to prototype for testing on the 80 series as that's my current project. One being an affordable cable locker conversion which I'm working on now as well as bumpers and a few mechanical goodies.
My question I have is this: what do you all wish was an available part or upgrade for these things that just isn't out there yet? My fabrication skills are top notch and my abilities as far as equipment are limited to small to medium runs of things but high quality construction. Basically anything that fits within the bounds of machining, fabricating, and or moderate complexity engineering.
I realize this may be something that has been asked before and I realize being my first post, many will shrug off with a "yeah, yeah, one of these guys again" but I will assure I am bringing a passion to the table with this stuff.
So what is it you guys wish was out there?
Thanks for reading and cheers.
