It is time to start telling the story of the other LC in my life. Two years ago my brother In-law had decided it was time he should sell his "project" since his wife would not allow any time or money to be put into it. I told him I had a buyer if the price was right. My best friend was in the market for a 4wheel project and after telling him a little about the Fj we headed over to my brothers with some jumper cables and some cash and drove it back to the shop.
Once at the shop we gave it a full once over fluids filters etc etc. We even rebuilt the front axle (pretty good leak) for the most part we just played around with it for the last few weeks of summer. The plan was not concrete, but that over winter we would tackle the build head on. A long list of upgrades and changes were decided upon and I got to ordering. For the most part the build blueprint was given to us my the fine folks @ Man-A-Fre. we spoke with them at length during the last SEMA show and loved what they had done with their Show Rig.
So we had done a fair amount of disassemble at the garage, I mean we were down to a frame and one axle if I remember correctly, with tons of new/used parts showing up daily. Then the flood hit..... one of the worst in our area in over 100 years, needless to say some stuff was not where it used to be anymore, to be honest half the stuff was gone... pretty bad deal.
So here we are, its been about 4-5months and we have gotten a bunch of the stuff back or just got replacements to continue the project.
I have some of the old pictures of it when it was my brothers for you all, and in the coming weeks I will continue to add to the story and post progress pictures too. Tomorrow is going to be a good day we have a ton of stuff coming in and I will take pictures of what we have to date.
Thanks for reading mud
Once at the shop we gave it a full once over fluids filters etc etc. We even rebuilt the front axle (pretty good leak) for the most part we just played around with it for the last few weeks of summer. The plan was not concrete, but that over winter we would tackle the build head on. A long list of upgrades and changes were decided upon and I got to ordering. For the most part the build blueprint was given to us my the fine folks @ Man-A-Fre. we spoke with them at length during the last SEMA show and loved what they had done with their Show Rig.
So we had done a fair amount of disassemble at the garage, I mean we were down to a frame and one axle if I remember correctly, with tons of new/used parts showing up daily. Then the flood hit..... one of the worst in our area in over 100 years, needless to say some stuff was not where it used to be anymore, to be honest half the stuff was gone... pretty bad deal.
So here we are, its been about 4-5months and we have gotten a bunch of the stuff back or just got replacements to continue the project.
I have some of the old pictures of it when it was my brothers for you all, and in the coming weeks I will continue to add to the story and post progress pictures too. Tomorrow is going to be a good day we have a ton of stuff coming in and I will take pictures of what we have to date.
Thanks for reading mud