Howdy y’all, just dropping in to see if anyone has pics of custom high roofs intended to add headroom for sleeping in the back. Pop tops are cool (Campteq is the dream but extremely out of budget), but this would be easier and I have some roof rust to tackle so figured might as well completely...
Truck is back together besides a couple slightly broken things that I don’t have replacements for yet (pic from when I was taking it apart, it’s cleaner now)
Stoked to have a nice painted front end, wheels that don’t kachow, and an axle housing that’s prepped for more abuse! Next step is a...
The gussets are the upper and lower fin things visible in that pic of the axle! Here they are up close and personal though. Booger welded an inch at a time alternating between all 4 to try and prevent warpage. Haven’t used this welder since I welded the sliders on a few years ago, and they’re...
Gussetted fresh axle housing is in, time to pack the knucks and birfs with moly, get the spindle and hub on, and get this thing back on the road. Ended up not messing with the 4runner, have been dailying the KLR
This surgery will probably put the dude down for a few days. Need to do some work to the 88 4runner so I can have a backup rig before I start this. Went most of the year without a backup! El Duderino has been my only daily
Hehe I think I bent my axle
@HemiAlex should have a replacement for me in a month
And on @landcrusher909’s recommendations I will be gusseting the knuckle balls, trussing the axle, and may do a shackle reversal and go ahead and transfer the air lockers to 4:10 diffs while it’s all apart. 😳
Barely hit a deer last night, snapped it’s neck with the front passenger corner which threw its body at the pass door. Window and lock and everything still work great so I’m not going to pop it out any time soon.
It would’ve just been a head gasket job but I ended up just tossing in a fresh 2F. Partially due to having 70 thou shaved off that head and continuing to run Colorado timing at sea level I’m sure