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I finished up the TMS snorkel install last night. Overall pretty smooth. The supplied template wasn't quite accurate. The two holes closest to the windshield were not in the correct place but that was about all I needed to change. After drilling the holes, I removed the fender to make it easier to tighten all the bolts and remove the factory intake plumbing. The quality of the snorkel is really quite good, in fact excellent considering the price. For a $40 Snorkel it is great. Comparing it to the Safari snorkels I've used in the past, the obvious difference is the lack of the embossed Safari logo on the main body. Fitment is and construction is good although it may not be quite as precise where the snorkel follows the contours of the fender at the front, but I'm getting quite nit-picky. Material seems to be the same plastics. Time will tell if this one has problems with UV exposure and fading or cracking, but I doubt it. So with the exception of needing to do some double-checking of measurements I'm very please with the purchase.
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Hey box rocket can you tell us the secret behind how you mounted your antenna on the right lower side. I have the same bumper and I don't like the stock position of antenna they have on arb it blocks your view. Thanks
 
Hey box rocket can you tell us the secret behind how you mounted your antenna on the right lower side. I have the same bumper and I don't like the stock position of antenna they have on arb it blocks your view. Thanks
Sure. It is a widely kept secret of drilling a hole in the top of the bumper near the corner. :)
 
Sure. It is a widely kept secret of drilling a hole in the top of the bumper near the corner. :)
Oh cool, I don't think I want to drill my $1k bumper yet, maybe when it gets a little old not saying that yours is old. Thanks for the response
 
Oh cool, I don't think I want to drill my $1k bumper yet, maybe when it gets a little old not saying that yours is old. Thanks for the response
 
near the end of the route I dropped the 80 into a hole that turned out to be deeper and softer than it appeared and swallowed the driverside. The drop in was a vertical ledge about 3' high and the rear bumper was hung up. Between the rear bumper being hung up (keeping the rear tire from touching the ground) and the slippery clay in the hole, I wasn't able to drive out immediately. So a used the COMEUP winch to pull the truck about 12" to free the rear bumper and then was able to drive out on my own. Fun little challenge.

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Should have the truck back on the road today with new Nitro 4.88 gears and all new brakes including some high performance Carbon pads. Anxious to see/feel what kind of difference I get from the gearing as well as the brakes.
I'm looking forward to hearing about your brakes ...
 
Should have the truck back on the road today with new Nitro 4.88 gears and all new brakes including some high performance Carbon pads. Anxious to see/feel what kind of difference I get from the gearing as well as the brakes.

You're now officially a "rocket"!!!!
 
Should have the truck back on the road today with new Nitro 4.88 gears and all new brakes including some high performance Carbon pads. Anxious to see/feel what kind of difference I get from the gearing as well as the brakes.
I would love to hear your feedback on the gears. I'm on the fence whether to do it or not.
 
Awesome pics. Those gears are gonna wake the truck up a bit! Very interested in the brakes too.
 
Box Rocket, I have followed your thread(s) for sometime because you have a great eye for the aesthetic. As you may or may not know Rocinante shows-up in all kinds of google image search queries for the 80 series, as it rightly should. People around the world ‘click’ on images of your original inspiration and that says a great deal.

As it is, I just wanted to write; Great camera work number one and further, and perhaps I speak for many when I write this, your posts have been
a source of bountiful inspiration for others.

"Every artist knows how far removed this feeling of letting go is from his “most natural” state, the free ordering, placing, disposing and shaping in the moment of “inspiration” – he knows how strictly and subtly he obeys thousands of laws at this very moment, laws that defy conceptual formulation precisely because of their hardness and determinateness (compared with these laws, there is something floundering, multiple, and ambiguous about even the most solid concept –). I will say it again: what seems to be essential “in heaven and on earth” is that there be obedience in one direction for a long time. In the long term, this always brings and has brought about something that makes life on earth worth living – for instance: virtue, art, music, dance, reason, intellect – something that transfigures, something refined, fantastic, and divine.”
--Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 188.

Take care and thank you.
 

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