Hourglass, '97 LX 450

[Matty]

Did you buy another hazard switch or just use your existing...?

I used my existing one but I have another one in the mail. I wouldn't recommend it though because your blinkers won't work with the hazard unhooked. So I tested it then hooked the hazard back up until I get the other one in the mail which will hopefully be tomorrow. I don't think I'll need the CDL in the next day or two so I should be ok.

 

[hh65flyer]

Cool, may I ask where you got the switch and how much it was?

 

[Matty]

Cool, may I ask where you got the switch and how much it was?

I actually got my switch from another member on here parting out an 80, but you can get them at http://www.cruiserparts.net/parts/fj80.html for $15

 

[Matty]

finally got settled into the new garage and got the air hooked up to make short work of the corroded fill plugs for the diffs. Spent some time beating myself up with breaker bars and took all of 2 seconds with air. Leaving more time for just waiting for a couple paychecks to buy tube for sliders and de flare it

and the new garage. Still settling in but it came with a fridge, microwave, couch and workbench! my new favorite place at the house

 

[Matty]

finally blacked out the back emblem. No more gold and drilled my new shot ski....very necessary living here 250cm jump ski with 6 shots

 

[flow]

pics of the shot ski in use please

 

[Matty]

picked up a used set of 285/75/16 hankook dynapro a/ts with about 50% tread for $80!!

 

[Matty]

still haven't mounted the tires yet but started this tonight

been moving slow mostly due to this

 

[bigfj62]

You may want to wait till spring for the Monsatliner. It needs to be 50 deg. to cure properly and doing it in your closed garage is not fun. If you have a good respirator and tape off the doors into your house you should be fine. The fumes are insane. Worse than anything I have ever used. Monstaliner is Great stuff though. Super tough hard as rock. Goes on easy and looks Great!!!!!

 

[Matty]

thanks for the heads up I do have access to a good respirator and I have a space heater. Thinking that maybe ill tape the holes and spray them just to have it sealed up and wait for a nice warm day and run the heater to do it.

 

[Matty]

broke out the space heaters and the respirators since I need to be able to drive this and it got nice out not really a fan of the dark colors and contrast so I went with light grey to keep the contrast to a minimum. Super happy with the way it turned out

 

[Matty]

de-flared on the new 285s!

bought these 30mm spacers as well. Hopefully install them next week

still moving slow because of the distractions

 

[Matty]

Removed the crossbars and trimmed the front bumper today

 

[cruiserjunktion]

Rig looks great. Tell me more about how the holes were covered before rolling on the liner.

 

[Matty]

Rig looks great. Tell me more about how the holes were covered before rolling on the liner.

I used aluminum tape, cleaned really well and taped the holes then rolled the liner on.

 

[94SRUNNER]

Did you tape both sides of the holes or just the front?

 

[Matty]

Did you tape both sides of the holes or just the front?

I just taped the front of the holes

 

[Matty]

tweaked my knee a bit so took a couple days off from skiing and went and picked up the rest of my tools/borrowed some from a buddy. Time for some fun!

JD2 bender with a 1 3/4" die and a 220v Hobart. Plan is to modify the existing front and rear bumpers and build some sliders over the next couple weeks.

 

[newtomelx]

Its nice to have friends with tools!!

 

[Matty]

Its nice to have friends with tools!!

yessir, the bender is mine and the welder is his.....good combo


got bored tonight so i had a couple beers and put the spacers in the rear