I welded a nut to a rectangular heavy plate with a hole drilled into the plate under the nut, heavily rust proofed it. slid it into the frame and inserted bolt from below like normal....
and here we are all these years later and I finally got around to installing the same Excelon XRS17P speakers in the rear doors. System has not missed a beat. (groan) I struggle with replacing the now ancient head unit with a double din with map etc. but im a lot older and lazier than...
and here we are what 9 years later and I finally relented and did a Labs bumper. In fact I purchased 3 of them. my truck had become so beat from use it made no sense to try to continue keeping it close to stock, and I was able to find a great shop who put them together for me reasonably. If...
Maybe not the most pleasant thought - I apologize- but where will the front of those steel longitudinal struts end up if you get rear ended hard? Are they up against the 2nd row seat backs? Could they be notched or something to fold up rather than...?
Disclaimer- this is my opinion alone- ymmv
After 9 years of HDJ81 ownership in North America I would counsel you to do an LS swap. I don't care how brilliant your importer is there will likely be expensive pitfalls with the new truck unless you are very lucky.
You are buying a very...
Holy crap this is old.. I ended up moving the trans temp sensor to the output line as suggested quite early on. 6 yrs later and no problems whatsoever with this stuff btw... I finally chucked out the stock Japanese stereo/cd player!