That is what Slee did. Yes.
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That is what Slee did. Yes.
I need to do this.
I would LOVE a 79 on portals and 35s.
I'd probably trade my 200 for one...
I like this idea on principle, but I fear your gonna pay out the nose for that 25 yr old "frame" to get all your vins, then pay for all the new "parts", and then have to put it all back together.
What would one think the price tag would be for such a task? Slee publish his total investment?
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You guys are way looking past the obvious.
But for most, it is too much money to do correctly mainly cause it would cost
Only folks who can pull this stuff off are the Greg Millers.
Well north of $150-200k
But for most, it is too much money to do correctly mainly cause it would cost
Only folks who can pull this stuff off are the Greg Millers.
Well north of $150-200k
Say you can find a rust bucket in Canada for under $3k. Hell, I don't think that's a stretch.
Factor in the cost of a late model 79; maybe $45k-$60k.
Then factor in the cost or taking it apart $few more thousand
Then shipping cost $2k-$4k?
Put it back together on your own dime and time.
I think you could pull it off for under $100k, especially if you could ship several at the same time...
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you missed my point entirely. I was asking you, Tongue-in-cheek, what you do when your threads get derailed AF. This one isn't even in the same series as a 120 anymore…Get a plug repair kit. CO2 bottle and as big of a spare as you can under the truck. Take the tire off the roof.
Roof Rack ..... Maybe but you've already said it is retired so save your cash and build up the 60
someone go start a 70 thread!
For that kind of $ I'd rather just move to New Zealand and be done with it.
That is best idea yet.
If anyone is interested, feel free to contact me. Happy to discuss what it takes within a spectrum.
It's doable. But the conversation would need to be off line.
It's doable. But the conversation would need to be off line.
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Nice. IMHO, that's the best looking GX front bumper on the market
That HiLift condom looks pretty ridiculous.
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Absolutely. Will the bumper you ordered be in by then?
Don't have a full diagnosis yet, but suspect I utterly failed in my first rear diff rebuild.
Friday morning I was on my way to meet my Upstate folks in the GA/SC/NC mountains for a 3-day weekend. After running up I-85 to the stateline and then Hwy 11 to Walhalla, the plan was to meet up with them along the Chattooga river near Burrells Ford. I was just getting on the first gravel road and threw it in 4HI (just to disengage VSC and make it mo' fun). About 4-5 miles in and doing about 25mph... suddenly rear wheels lock up, screeches to a halt. My first thought was gravel locked up a rotor, but couldn't be...both wheels locked up at same time. I get out and look around to see if I scattered any parts/debris on the road behind, but nothing. I crawl under and look around, nothing obvious. I touch the rear axle housing near the fill plug and it's on scalding hot. FML...my best guess is that something I did during the diff rebuild was not right, although I've already put 1000+ miles on it and had just dropped the break-in fluid with no evidence of something awry. It had new fluid that was a week old. Then I suspect that the tcase nuked because I was in 4Hi when the rear diff seized. Nothing was leaking though.
I haven't had cell signal in the last 45 minutes, so I hail my friends on the Ham - who are miraculously within range (another 4-5 miles north of me). In the meantime, I cycle through all possible drive modes and find that in 4LO, 1st gear I can barely move the truck forward. I can't seem to get it back into 2WD, and everything in the drive train feels like it is bound up. I get it to a better spot on the side of road and park it. The cavalry arrives.
Marshall says to me, I gotta come through Atlanta this coming week anyway, we'll get it towed off the gravel and I can pick it up on Tuesday. Woo hoo! We pile my gear into his truck, empty the fridge into his cooler and head to Cashiers, NC to look for cell service. Not much signal but enough to find a tow company in Walhalla, SC that will have a driver available "soon". That put us in standby mode for a couple hours and the rest of the gang powered on to our camp spot for the night.
Rollback truck arrives and I tell him that he's going to have to drag it onto the rollback because it won't move easily on its own. But after 2hrs of cooling off, whatever seized earlier is now free and I'm able to drive it onto the truck bed. Something is definitely grinding, but sounds like tcase to me, not the diff. Doesn't really matter, both will be replaced. I'll just be curious to open the tcase and see what it looks like, well same for the 3rd too.
I've been restocking my spares department recently and have a rear DS on its way to me already from a totaled 100K odo FJ on a parts lot. Called them back this morning and they still have the tcase and front DS so ordered both. I'll probably just get a rebuilt diff from ECGS and send them my roasted one for core.
Donor vehicle...
Mine...
Friday morning I was on my way to meet my Upstate folks in the GA/SC/NC mountains for a 3-day weekend. After running up I-85 to the stateline and then Hwy 11 to Walhalla, the plan was to meet up with them along the Chattooga river near Burrells Ford. I was just getting on the first gravel road and threw it in 4HI (just to disengage VSC and make it mo' fun). About 4-5 miles in and doing about 25mph... suddenly rear wheels lock up, screeches to a halt. My first thought was gravel locked up a rotor, but couldn't be...both wheels locked up at same time. I get out and look around to see if I scattered any parts/debris on the road behind, but nothing. I crawl under and look around, nothing obvious. I touch the rear axle housing near the fill plug and it's on scalding hot. FML...my best guess is that something I did during the diff rebuild was not right, although I've already put 1000+ miles on it and had just dropped the break-in fluid with no evidence of something awry. It had new fluid that was a week old. Then I suspect that the tcase nuked because I was in 4Hi when the rear diff seized. Nothing was leaking though.
I haven't had cell signal in the last 45 minutes, so I hail my friends on the Ham - who are miraculously within range (another 4-5 miles north of me). In the meantime, I cycle through all possible drive modes and find that in 4LO, 1st gear I can barely move the truck forward. I can't seem to get it back into 2WD, and everything in the drive train feels like it is bound up. I get it to a better spot on the side of road and park it. The cavalry arrives.
Marshall says to me, I gotta come through Atlanta this coming week anyway, we'll get it towed off the gravel and I can pick it up on Tuesday. Woo hoo! We pile my gear into his truck, empty the fridge into his cooler and head to Cashiers, NC to look for cell service. Not much signal but enough to find a tow company in Walhalla, SC that will have a driver available "soon". That put us in standby mode for a couple hours and the rest of the gang powered on to our camp spot for the night.
Rollback truck arrives and I tell him that he's going to have to drag it onto the rollback because it won't move easily on its own. But after 2hrs of cooling off, whatever seized earlier is now free and I'm able to drive it onto the truck bed. Something is definitely grinding, but sounds like tcase to me, not the diff. Doesn't really matter, both will be replaced. I'll just be curious to open the tcase and see what it looks like, well same for the 3rd too.
I've been restocking my spares department recently and have a rear DS on its way to me already from a totaled 100K odo FJ on a parts lot. Called them back this morning and they still have the tcase and front DS so ordered both. I'll probably just get a rebuilt diff from ECGS and send them my roasted one for core.
Donor vehicle...
Mine...