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[Franken470]

Just getting around to posting some pictures of the past year, From bone stock to 35" tires, full armor, ditch lights, rear door table,

Updating further since I blew my factory 8”, made the jump to 37” tires and added an LRA and a few other goodies along the way.

Pictures are as close to in order of install as I can remeber...
08 GX470 200K mi and climbing
Basline on TB/WP and all fluids done withing 3 mo of purchase
Icon LT RR w/ CDCV front Shocks
Marlin RCLT
200 Series Upgraded Rack
New Power Steering Reservoir
Relocated Washer Fluid
OGE Dual Battery Setup
Ronin Metal Ditch Light Brackets
Baja Design S1 Ditch Lights
Coastal Offroad, Sliders, Rear Bumper with Swingout, Front Bumper
Smittybilt 9.5K winch
Total Chaos Adjustable Rear Links
Icon Omega RR rear shocks
Alpah Equipt Wheels, Command is the First Set, X-Command with Beadlock and Without are picture in the tire progression
New Key Fobs with reinforement
ARB Diff Breathers
Power Bastards High Amp Alernator
Volt Boost Diode
Locked offroad bumpstops
Diamond 9.5
4.88 nitro gears
ARB lockers
Factory 80 series locker switch
Solidworks Motor Mounts
New transmission mount and crossmember after some significant trail damage.
Rago molle panels and attic
Dometic fridge freezer
Blue sea systems rear power outlet
Victory 4x4 console molle
Ohana rig supply panel delete mount
Baja S2 scene lights
SSO roof-rack
Amazon rock lights wired to door switch
ARB twin compressor mounted on power tray universal tray
All O2 sensors replaced at 230k after throwing a code
Valve cover gaskets also done at 230k
Driveshafts rebuilt with all new joints and balance at 215k
Depo Sport Headlight Housings
Hikari LED high and low beams
37 x 13.50R17 Toyo Opencountry MT
McQueen Fiberglass Fenders with snorkle pocket
Dobinsons Snorkel
Dobinsons Extra Heavy Rear Springs
Nomad Valve Body
WAT Transmission Cooler
WAT Torque Converter Lockout
LRA 24 Gal Aux Tank

 

[Franken470]

Fiberglass fenders, blue sea power outlet, high amp alternator

 

[Franken470]

Rear Bumper fab, Snorkel Install, Ditch Lights, LCA Braces, Rear Door Molle, and Tire Size goals

 

[Franken470]

2nd bumper weld up, I eff'ed up the first one of my own design... Rear Links and Omegas Mounted up.

 

[Franken470]

Also new Depo Sport Housings with Hikari LED Bulbs

 

[sedonut]

Awesome. I love seeing what someone with some great fabrication skills can do.

My fabrication is blacksmith level.

 

[TLar25]

Dang! Stoked to see the RCLT once that gets in!

 

[ArBrnSnpr]

CIB fist bump!

Rig is looking good too.

 

[Franken470]

The SSO WGW Roof Rack at powder coat

 

[Franken470]

Hoping to get some shop time in to button up all the looming little projects this week, rewire reverse lights, add rock lights to a switch along with their current door switch wiring, finish up the dual battery setup, axle seals, reroute the PS return to name a few. RCLT should ship this week.

 

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[Mitchelllamme]

wow looks insane. definitely interested to hear your on road driving experience with the kit. looks super good. interesting that they decided to go with a oem style inner tie rod instead of a heim.

 

[Franken470]

The 200 inner tie rod is almost 2x diameter of stock GX and has run KOH so I’m pretty confident in its strength.

 

[Brian DeLoach]

Really like your set up. The paint to match bumpers, sliders and snorkel is great looking. What snorkel are you running? The mount has body lines in it. Have not seen that one before. Also painting to match

 

[Franken470]

Really like your set up. The paint to match bumpers, sliders and snorkel is great looking. What snorkel are you running? The mount has body lines in it. Have not seen that one before. Also painting to match

those are the McQueen fiberglass fenders, they come regular or with snorkel mount since they are wider and fiberglass this is the only way to mount one… it’s a pocket built into the fender.

 

[ArBrnSnpr]

Any modifications needed to install the 200 series steering rack, and do the inners tie rods thread into GX470 outers, or does the tapper on the 200 series outer tie rod fit in the GX knuckle?

 

[Franken470]

Any modifications needed to install the 200 series steering rack, and do the inners tie rods thread into GX470 outers, or does the tapper on the 200 series outer tie rod fit in the GX knuckle?

You have to cut the frame to clear the rack’s gear box, there is a hole that needs to be drilled on the passenger side with brace sleeve welded in to mount the right side for the new mount. It reuses the differential mount on the left side. The TRE will not work without some sort of custom machining… the inner TRE on the 200 rack is 1.5x bigger than the GX rack, the kit comes with a solid arm threaded on each end to accept the heim joint and the ITR from 200 rack. There are extensive install instructions on marlin website in regards to install. If you had custom outlets made it might be possible to swap the racks but there is also a sector shaft modification to make the old steering mount to the new rack as well.

 

[Franken470]

Side view on the ground, front view and the best before and after I could get based on old photos in my phone.

 

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[Franken470]

Measurement taken underneath the lower shock mount in both pictures… moving the CV axle more in line with LCA gains tons of clearance underneath the LCA not previously available and this is on the same tires that came off the rig… huge improvement to the equivalent of going from a 31-37” tire without changing tires.