Anyone want to comment on pinion offset for my rear driveline. I am going to build a custom rear axel and need to decide whether I make the housing symmetrical Which would give me a pinion offset of about an inch and a half, or if i set the Pinion offset in line with the transfer case...
Have not had much time to work on over the summer but got the windows in and a few electrical bugs worked out. Waiting on the new axels from dynatrac for my winter project then hope to finally have this thing running in the spring!
Trying to track down some hardware for the rear kick-out...
Great point on the hood latches. Will have to keep an eye on them when there is flex.
The red ECM is the 4l80e transmission controller (Compushift) to the cummins.
https://hgmelectronics.com/pages/4l80e-transmission-controller
Black box is a Garmin power switch. It controls all the...
I finally got a chance to fire the Cummins as well. It sounds pretty badass. Most of my gauges are hooked up and wired to the Holley digital dash but still have some cleanup of the wiring under the hood.
The mirrors are from icon:
https://shop.icon4x4.com/products/icon-fj-side-view-mirrors
They were pricy but I could not find anything a liked better. Extremely happy with there quality and hardware provided. I also bought there centre console. Will update with a picture once installed.
The...
I had to extend the gutter rail section 18 inches with another section of an old roof and try to match the curve. I riveted some sheet metal to help form and then added 3 layers of fibreglass to the inside seams. Had to build up slightly with fibreglass on the top to match as well but it turned...
Finally finished extending the roof. Have it all fitted and taking to linex hopefully this week. Trying to decide weather I use the traditional fj40 Roof colour Cygnus white or if I use the FJ cruiser iceberg white. Or do something different.
Got the hood on and all the front end lined up. Had to slot a few of the holes out to make the linex work but body is pretty dame straight. Fired the engine today to circulate all the fluids. Few engine lights on but I don’t have all the sensors plugged in yet. Waiting on air box so I can...
Hard top is going on. Have extended everything but the roof. Going to start that this week once everything is fitted. All the sensitive electronics have been ran to the glove box which I sealed with breather vents at bottom. The digital dash and garmin screen both come sealed and weather...
95% of the wiring and plumbing is done and hope to fire the engine this week. Just waiting on a few parts. Will starting working on fitting everything this week as well. Will be interesting on how it all comes together after the linex
Installed the atlas transfer case . Had to clock it a bit to make it fit but was overall pretty straight forward. Looking forward to building my rear axel but still haven’t decided what to build yet!
I bent some aluminum in order to make the tranny cover mate up to the one I hacked from...
Been a while since I posted but slowly trying to get all the wiring done. Got the front end finished and put back together. Made a custom grill and I think it fits with the over all look. Really like the JW speaker lights. Thinking of painting the front signal light casing black instead of the...