Build FJ62 docu-series thread

[CruiserTrash]

Ah man this is high praise here, thank you. Yes it took a lot of standing back figuring it out, no CAD unfortunately.

The airline cargo pucks are the same as “airline cargo track” but just in individual form. The old 727 and 737s used them in the cargo hold. I had a couple dozen stashed away for a looooong time, glad to finally use a few.
The “Charlie Brown webbing” is just to keep the upper shelf stuff from crashing forward. The quick disconnect airline parts allow for easy disconnect of the webbing and access to the stuff on the shelf. I don’t know if I love this idea or not, but I’ll try it out and see how it works. Looks kinda interesting I guess.

The rear water can is the “in use” container and stays rachet strapped in until it’s empty, the hose end usually hangs out the back and is secured wherever I want it w a small quick fist on a magnet. Gravity feed has never failed! When the tank is empty I just pull it out, swap the hose/lid to a new tank. I used to use 7 gallon blue Coleman tanks but I had two of those crack and leak so Sceptor it is.

That little magnetic work light is AAA powered. It’s handy but doesn’t get used much since I mounted up the LED light bar on the top tailgate that is wired into 12v. Gotta thank BWesty for both of those!!

Awesome thanks for the explainer! We also did 12V light strips on the upper hatch - great when cooking after dark. Scepter is the way to go on water cans, we’ve had a ton of other ones fail in one way or another.

 

[toy_tek]

Last weekend BWesty and I pulled the G56 6-speed from his 2006 PowerWagon to replace the clutch and rear main, so we picked up this HF 1 ton transmission jack on sale, which is pretty sweet actually. I’ll use it for H55/LS swap work on my 62, and we need to replace the rear main on his 60 soon. But today I whipped up this 9.5” diff adaptor for the jack which should make removing and installing those units a breeze since the jack plate is fully adjustable forward and back and side to side. I had these 10mm thick plates laying around and they were sized perfect for this little project. Gonna pick up a new ARB locker and some 4.11 gears to rebuild this spare diff and swap into the rear of my truck.

 

[CruiserTrash]

Brilliant idea with the diff adapter. When I replaced mine I just dead lifted them into place while trying to fiddle with bolts & stuff. I have that same jack too - scored it at a yard sale for $20 - and it's done me good. It's definitely the quality side of Harbor Freight.