1982 BJ42 Adventure on the Horizon

[Dirty Koala]

Thank you for the explanation LOL ... I was thinking by the photo ... There is a guy praying behind your truck? Or praying TO your truck?

Great looking truck BTW

Safe journey!!

I am going to tell folks it's a guy praying to the cruiser gods.

 

[Dirty Koala]

I wanted a removable cooler basket designed to fit the Yeti 35, Jason is making the basket with a hitch receiver so that it can quickly be removed from driver swing arm when not in use.

 

[Dirty Koala]

Trail Tailor @reevesci Rear bumper is all done!

I am really pleased with the result. the esky basket is mounted to the arm via a hitch with a big set screw to elliminate any wobbling. The basket can be removed when not needed, which also leaves me with the option to build other mounting accessories on the driver swing arm if I choose to.

Maybe I'll get a bumper dumper and keep it classy.

 

[fireball]

Maybe you'll get one? Don't lie Morgan, you know you already have one sitting at home ready to be installed.

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

M,

Front tube is all bent and waiting your approval.

J

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

All done brother!

J

 

[Dirty Koala]

I can't wait to get these painted and installed. Thank you J.

 

[greenbeast]

Can't wait to see it installed

 

[cahoove7]

Any Installed pictures of your bumpers? I haven't seen a picture of that particular style front bumper installed.

 

[Dirty Koala]

Any Installed pictures of your bumpers? I haven't seen a picture of that particular style front bumper installed.

Not yet, haven't had a day off the last 6 weeks, it's still boxed up.

 

[Mr Cimarron]

I know the feeling. My tool mess around the 40 is exactly how it was 4-5 weeks ago. The few days I've had off have been rest days.

 

[Dirty Koala]

I have been driving the 42 a lot lately without any issue until this morning. I went to fire up the motor and nothing,seemed like flat batteries. I drive about 2 hours home last night from work with the headlights on.

Resting voltage on both batteries was 11.7V, so not drastically low. I started probing around at the alternator and found that one of the three wires running through the green plug was broken through and barely hanging on my one strand. I suspect this is my issue.

One of the other three wires had already been pypassed with rather shoddy electrical butt connectors.

Does anyone know if these plugs still available? If not I will find another 3 wire plug to replace with.

 

[Dirty Koala]

I also just found this thin ground wire that runs from the top of the alternator back towards the voltage regulator, the wire was just hanging. I suspect it is supposed to be screwed to the voltage regulator base?

 

[Dirty Koala]

This afternoon I was able to pull the pins out of the alternator plug (both sides) and recrimp/ solder the wires back into the salvaged pins. The plug is good as new now.

I am getting 25.6V at idle and 26.6v when idled up to about 1000rpm. I thought I should be getting 27.7V at that rpm...but not certain.

 

[nfs56]

would love to see pics with this bumper painted and on your truck

 

[Dirty Koala]

So I got my 50mm OME lift from @cruiseroutfit put on the truck yesterday.

The 42 now has a bit of the cruiser lean to it..about 1.25" higher on the passenger front than driver front, definitely noticeable. Since I didn't have any lean at stock height I want to make sure the springs are the correct parts and oriented correctly (left to right and forward to backward.) before I go down the path of a spacer on the rear passenger spring.

One thing that I noticed is the yellow painted part number on the front springs...they are different. 10F15 is on the drivers side, 8AC15 is on the passenger side. Could it be I have two different springs? Does it matter which side these springs go on. Also there are yellow arrows on one end of the spring, the shop mounted the springs with those arrows pointing to the rear (frame hanger end). Does anyone see any obvious mistake or wrong part?

I also received I sweet Terrain Tamer 80 knuckle poster from Cruiser Brothers @wardharris and @george_tlc so I found an appropriate spot in the shop to prominently display.

 

[Mr Cimarron]

I had a lean as well with my TT lift. When I swapped front axle I swapped sides with the spring and it didn't change. I think it's just cruiser lean.

 

[Dirty Koala]

I had a lean as well with my TT lift. When I swapped front axle I swapped sides with the spring and it didn't change. I think it's just cruiser lean.

I am going to get my Trail Tailor bumpers mounted which will add some decent weight and see how it looks after that. If it's still significant then I will put a 3/8" spacer between the spring and axle on the rear passenger to level out some.

 

[Dirty Koala]

I finally got around to unwrapping the lovely packaging job that @reevesci did on my custom Trail Tailor front and rear bumpers.

So far I have painted up and mounted the front bumper...I am hoping to get to the rear next weekend.

These bumpers are STOUT to say the least, and I love the lines that Jason put into his design.

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

I finally got around to unwrapping the lovely packaging job that @reevesci did on my custom Trail Tailor front and rear bumpers.

So far I have painted up and mounted the front bumper...I am hoping to get to the rear next weekend.

These bumpers are STOUT to say the least, and I love the lines that Jason put into his design.

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Morgan, I was wondering if you ever got around to installing these.

I like the silver, nice job!

Jason