duggy's build thread: 1998 Land Cruiser #SAS100
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duggy
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Life has been throwing some major curve balls at me lately. I live in Houston, Texas and there have been some torrential downpours as of late. It's been deemed the "Tax Day Floods" here in Houston where our Bayous are swelling up and could not take the high amounts of water being poured down.
During this project, a few things I found that helped me keep pushing on was to always have good music playing in the background, put on a cool car channel such as Velocity on your TV, and keep your garage floor clean. The last part is important because I walk into the garage and see a complete mess, I get discouraged about everything else that I have left to do. The last part also saved my ass as I just cleaned up the garage floor 2 days before the Tax Day Floods hit us in Houston. The floor was almost spotless and no tools (mechanical, electrical or pneumatic) were left on the floor, along with any bolts that I tend to leave strewn around.
The 100 was not damaged as it was sitting on jackstands, my 80 and Raptor were fine also since they sit up really high. I got about 8" of water inside of the garage and about 2" inside of my house. It's mostly all over now, and insurance will cover it, but man what a huge pain in the behind.
Back to business, I finally got all of the parts to finish up the front radius and caster arms. I painted them and installed them.
I charged up the shocks last night to 100lbs on the lower chamber and around 150lbs on the upper chamber. It looks like I may need some more in the upper as I need to raise it up for my panhard to fit. Some more fiddling with the air pressures is required, but ORIs instructions make it REALLY easy to adjust and setup.
Their no-loss air chuck is required for filling high pressures through a schrader valve.
During this project, a few things I found that helped me keep pushing on was to always have good music playing in the background, put on a cool car channel such as Velocity on your TV, and keep your garage floor clean. The last part is important because I walk into the garage and see a complete mess, I get discouraged about everything else that I have left to do. The last part also saved my ass as I just cleaned up the garage floor 2 days before the Tax Day Floods hit us in Houston. The floor was almost spotless and no tools (mechanical, electrical or pneumatic) were left on the floor, along with any bolts that I tend to leave strewn around.
The 100 was not damaged as it was sitting on jackstands, my 80 and Raptor were fine also since they sit up really high. I got about 8" of water inside of the garage and about 2" inside of my house. It's mostly all over now, and insurance will cover it, but man what a huge pain in the behind.
Back to business, I finally got all of the parts to finish up the front radius and caster arms. I painted them and installed them.
I charged up the shocks last night to 100lbs on the lower chamber and around 150lbs on the upper chamber. It looks like I may need some more in the upper as I need to raise it up for my panhard to fit. Some more fiddling with the air pressures is required, but ORIs instructions make it REALLY easy to adjust and setup.
Their no-loss air chuck is required for filling high pressures through a schrader valve.
40Habits
Sure... why not
Looking good Duggy! One thing I would recommend is nylock nuts on the link bolts....... trust me 
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I had a nut back off an upper link. Luckily I caught it before anything bad happened.
.I had a nut back off an upper link. Luckily I caught it before anything bad happened.
Strong fab skills!
duggy
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Looking good Duggy! One thing I would recommend is nylock nuts on the link bolts....... trust me
I had a nut back off an upper link. Luckily I caught it before anything bad happened.
Good point and duly noted. I decided to go with all Grade 8 hardware and picked up the nuts they had beside them. Will keep an eye out.
bluecruiser
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Looking awesome man...sorry to hear about the flooding situation. Keep up the good work!
Cruiser Jimmy
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Why didn't you use heim joints in the front steering system? Then you could have 'a couple' common spares for the entire rig. Just an observation.
duggy
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Yes it is! I ran into some issues with the rear brakes but was able to finally find some FZJ80 backing plates from @mel lowe here on the boards. The problem I had was that the axle I had was a '92 with disc brakes BUT the disc brakes that came on them are much smaller than the US FZJ80 discs. After much run around with trying to find the correct shoes, rotors and backing plates, everything came together yesterday and it all fits perfectly. I rebuilt the e-brake shoes with all new hardware, adjusted them and bled the rear brakes. Tires went on and lowered the 37" MTRs to about 4lbs of air each and it backed out on it's own out of the garage last night. I was pretty tired after working all day on it, so it's sitting in my driveway and I cannot stop staring at it!
I still have some issues to work out such as proper front brake lines. I found out that the OPOR rear lower control arms will not work so I ordered up some Johnny Joints to make some new arms. OPORs will hit the for sale section soon for anybody with bent stock rear LCAS.
It's not ready to hit the road yet, but almost there! I have 15 days until my event so I should be able to make it. Cutting it close though.
Front tires do not have camber. It's some weird picture effect that's causing that.
I still have some issues to work out such as proper front brake lines. I found out that the OPOR rear lower control arms will not work so I ordered up some Johnny Joints to make some new arms. OPORs will hit the for sale section soon for anybody with bent stock rear LCAS.
It's not ready to hit the road yet, but almost there! I have 15 days until my event so I should be able to make it. Cutting it close though.
Front tires do not have camber. It's some weird picture effect that's causing that.
Saw your pic on the TLCA FB page this AM and said "That's duggy's 100! It's alive!" 
Very impressive!
Great work! Looking forward to seeing it on the trails.
duggy
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I didn't realize you took damage from the floods. Sorry to hear that man, but it's nice to see it didn't get you down. I still haven't run legit brake lines yet either, decided to reuse my old ones just to get it rolling and make some nicer ones later on down the road. The brake line stuff is still yours when you need it.
bluecruiser
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duggybuilt. Sounds like a sticker you need. Looks awesome.
