its been a while since I have been on here I had good momentum on my build then it all came to a halt ounce I installed the motor/drive train then again after modifying the tcase and finding I only have low range that’s when all my momentum went out the window its been a year now and I’m ditching my "pipe dream" of running a getrag and a np205 with stock rear end. It could be done but it would be too much of a hack job and moving the gas tank.
I will start at the beginning.
about 5 years ago my buddy built a 60 with a 4bt it was freakn awesome, he sold it, so when I found out he was building an 80 with a 6bt, 700r4 and 60 t case I was helping and learning with aspirations to build my own this matte black 6bt with 700r4 fzj80 is my avatar and was featured in march or Feb Petersons 4X4 matte black 80, that too was sold, when we delivered it to north Hollywood I picked up my 91fj80 with 261k miles on it I really didn’t know if it would make it back, It had all kinds of groans in the drive train but made it 1000+ miles back to Oregon. I immediately took it out wheelen to see if I could break it. I will say for the two weeks of hard wheeln I put it through nothing broke. That is a true testament to the quality of the land cruiser!
I then tore it down rebuilt the first gen non intercooled Cummins took care of the KDP and installed the 3" body lift and the motor/drive train. ounce the drive train and motor where installed I noticed a problem, one I should have noticed well before this point, the tcase is a centered rear out put not good,, I need a passenger drop rear output. After the initial shock I start to research, after many nights of manning the keyboard I find out I might there is hope yet. I can use a few parts from a np200 and get my passenger drop out of the np205 I order up all the pieces I will need perform the “abortion” and install the tcase only to find I only get low range out of the basterdized tcase. at this point I’m pretty frustrated I go to and call every machine shop I know of, one takes the job to make me a shaft that will support the np205 gears and uses the np200 rear bearing carrier thus giving me my dual passenger drop np205. I’m stoked, that wears off after about six of waiting on the machine shop. My original plan was to get it running and moving under its own power wheel the crap out of it fixes what breaks and paint it after a while. I got tired of waiting and figured I would use the idle time to paint and do some tinkering. While waiting I plumb and install the fans build a radiator and so on. I get it running only to find lots of oil getting in the radiator; my first thought was I had a leaking head gasket. I put a new gasket in with new head bolts and it still blew oil in the water. after scratching my head for a while and lots of late nights filled with beer and frustration I pulled the oil cooler (which I didn’t even know was in there, a buddy told me to check it) only to find it had a pin hole. Swapped another in from a donor block and viola no more "blow by” it’s been about a year now of driving by the shop and looking at my bruiser sitting and I just can’t take it. I’m pulling the plug on my uni-corn shaft and going with what I know works nv4500 with a 60 or 62 tcase.
I don’t have a whole lot of picks but here is what I have I hope to have this done here in the next few months.
these pictures are in L.A right after we picked up my 80. the black one hosed an A/C relay causing the cooling fan not to work luckly autozone carrys bosch relays.
I will start at the beginning.
about 5 years ago my buddy built a 60 with a 4bt it was freakn awesome, he sold it, so when I found out he was building an 80 with a 6bt, 700r4 and 60 t case I was helping and learning with aspirations to build my own this matte black 6bt with 700r4 fzj80 is my avatar and was featured in march or Feb Petersons 4X4 matte black 80, that too was sold, when we delivered it to north Hollywood I picked up my 91fj80 with 261k miles on it I really didn’t know if it would make it back, It had all kinds of groans in the drive train but made it 1000+ miles back to Oregon. I immediately took it out wheelen to see if I could break it. I will say for the two weeks of hard wheeln I put it through nothing broke. That is a true testament to the quality of the land cruiser!
I then tore it down rebuilt the first gen non intercooled Cummins took care of the KDP and installed the 3" body lift and the motor/drive train. ounce the drive train and motor where installed I noticed a problem, one I should have noticed well before this point, the tcase is a centered rear out put not good,, I need a passenger drop rear output. After the initial shock I start to research, after many nights of manning the keyboard I find out I might there is hope yet. I can use a few parts from a np200 and get my passenger drop out of the np205 I order up all the pieces I will need perform the “abortion” and install the tcase only to find I only get low range out of the basterdized tcase. at this point I’m pretty frustrated I go to and call every machine shop I know of, one takes the job to make me a shaft that will support the np205 gears and uses the np200 rear bearing carrier thus giving me my dual passenger drop np205. I’m stoked, that wears off after about six of waiting on the machine shop. My original plan was to get it running and moving under its own power wheel the crap out of it fixes what breaks and paint it after a while. I got tired of waiting and figured I would use the idle time to paint and do some tinkering. While waiting I plumb and install the fans build a radiator and so on. I get it running only to find lots of oil getting in the radiator; my first thought was I had a leaking head gasket. I put a new gasket in with new head bolts and it still blew oil in the water. after scratching my head for a while and lots of late nights filled with beer and frustration I pulled the oil cooler (which I didn’t even know was in there, a buddy told me to check it) only to find it had a pin hole. Swapped another in from a donor block and viola no more "blow by” it’s been about a year now of driving by the shop and looking at my bruiser sitting and I just can’t take it. I’m pulling the plug on my uni-corn shaft and going with what I know works nv4500 with a 60 or 62 tcase.
I don’t have a whole lot of picks but here is what I have I hope to have this done here in the next few months.
these pictures are in L.A right after we picked up my 80. the black one hosed an A/C relay causing the cooling fan not to work luckly autozone carrys bosch relays.
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