Builds fat bastard build thread

[scottryana]

Yes it does! If I was staying in Texas there would be no way I would go black, but I am not so... And not many places get 300 days of sunshine a year like Colorado. lol.

black may look good but holy crap it gets hot!!!! it also shows weird discoloration, but that may be a poor paint quality. not sure.

 

[nuclearlemon]

went through my pics and i don't have a single pic of my rig at roundup...d'oh. but here's a pic from bhcc in july where it appears i've got the mtrs on and one from chinaman gulch in september where it looks like i've got the swampers. and roundup was a few months before then, so mtrs it was

 

[Diesel Cruiserman]

I would of been surprised if they were the same rubber, yur rigs get used a lot..

Me and my daughter looking at getting her 1st cruiser next week...she is one fine wheeler already.

Keep up the good work,fun to watch..

 

[Delancy]

If I was staying in Texas...

You can take the redneck from Texas, but can't bleach the Texan from the redneck....

Try not to give all us white trash, rednecks a bad name now, especially with Ige.

She likes being addressed as "ma'am".....that being the two syllable pronunciation.

 

[nuclearlemon]

lol...that's right, 'cause i'm so upscale

 

[subzali]

Sliders Ige?

 

[G-Cat]

Sliders Ige?

If Metaltech is having a Black Friday on the OPOR...that's the best bang for the buck, IMO.

 

[Delancy]

Your cats intact, Ige?

 

[CO_Hunter]

Are you selling any parts off mm?

 

[nuclearlemon]

Sliders Ige?

they're coming...been waiting on marlin to get them back in stock

 

[nuclearlemon]

Your cats intact, Ige?

for the moment. the exhaust will most likely get ohv friendly modded next spring

 

[nuclearlemon]

Are you selling any parts off mm?

yup...https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/95-fzj80-no-powertrain-parts-body-is-bad.818211/page-3#post-9429197

 

[Delancy]

for the moment. the exhaust will most likely get ohv friendly modded next spring

Dunno if it's worth it, or not, but have MT sliders that are "reinforced" now fully capable of supporting the weight of the fat ass 80, but had LT delete the cat protector, since running EMS exhaust.

Wound up with a little ghetto fab to clear the hiflow cats on the EMS exhaust, but plenty stout and tested to ensure.

I don't think it'd clear even turned OE cats, but you're a resourceful gal and could probably come up with something to work.

If you're interested, lemme know, and they'd cost your standard rate of one million dollars for the pair.

Having driven the dearly departed with more deadener than a morgue, Krawlers, and the "Hi Flow" exhaust, which translates to "loud as ****" and there's not being damn thing about a 1FZ exhaust tone that has ANY redeeming qualities, I'm enjoying the relative silence of the OE exhaust, so not going to swap the sliders over.

Have an MT tube front that prolly (operative) won't make the transition, either, but I know you're attached to the ARB, anyway.

Won't need either at the mall.....well, sliders I do, but as door ding protectors and not shimmying my fat ass in like I'm straddling a Clydesdale, simply for that reason.

 

[nuclearlemon]

thanks for the offer...fat bastard is heavy enough. the pickup tube sliders are fairly light and worded well on the mm, so gonna go that way again...just trying to get caught up on the stuff i already have before ordering more stuff to put on

today, i almost finished the rear bumper/tire carrier swap over. need to clean the lower threads on the frame and wire the license plate lamp (was in the middle of that when the neighbor brought over three plates of food for me...now i'm just going to lay on the couch for a bit

 

[LittleRock80]

Ige, question about your ARB. Did you delete the outer bars due to the bumper being tweaked?

Great-looking 80, ma'am. Thank you for sharing.

 

[nuclearlemon]

being tweaked and because i stand up there and when i was doing injectors, the bar was digging into my calf. when i got it all together and found one of the new injectors was bad and had to do it all over again, i got a little pissed off and got the sawzall

 

[nuclearlemon]

been a long time since i've updated this. i've been doing a little bit here and there, but mostly i've been getting out and wheeling it.

one thing that's been an issue since day one was the diffs. built by two different shops and neither one has been trouble free, so i planned a long time ago to swap over the elocked diffs from the mm. this weekend i finally got around to that. yesterday was the front, outside of putting on the tie rod, it's done. the rear is in, but i have to replace bushings in the upper links (one is completely toasted) and since i'm technically swapping four axles (out of mm, out of fb, swap into mm and others into fb), my butt is whooped. still have to finish hooking up the rear links and wiring harnesses, but i found one of the upper link bushings with the metal sleeve completely loose from the bushing, so i'll replace all four of them. also need to hook up the brake lines, then i have a new booster and master to go on.

had both of the axle housings sandblasted and then slapped some good paint on them, new seals, rebuilt the calipers and replaced the rear rotors. feels good to have clean shiny stuff under there again.

i had already found a hinky p.o. fix on the rear locker harness, but i figured now was as good a time as any to actually fix it.

also had to get it through emissions. was surprised when it failed since it has a new engine, but replaced the o2 sensors and all is well again. pretty sure they were toasted.

 

[nuclearlemon]

a little bit of what else i've been doing over the last two years

 

[nuclearlemon]

more. these are earlier. this year, after a while, i just stopped taking pictures

 

[nuclearlemon]

i'm only posting one picture from each different trail and as mentioned, there were a few trips i took no picures. a lot of trips were truly epic ones! if we don't do this for the great memories, what are we doing it for?