Guess who's back? Back again?
After a long hiatus, i am now back in the Cruiser game.
Some of you that have been around awhile (@KLF from our YT days) might know me from threads of stupid mods back in the day that ended up working great and getting stickied, such as:
-Retrofitting 80 series Elockers into an FJ60
-First US install of an LRA aux tank into an 80 using all OEM parts from OZ including overhead factory aux tank fuel gauge and OEM sub tank button
-Racing an 80 in the Baja1000 and giving that @cruiseroutfit fella a kick in the pants to start racing...
Anyway... After a couple years of searching for "THE ONE", I finally found it, oddly, from a long time friend and fellow Cruisernerd and got it home...
2010
210k On The Clock
Bone Stock
Cool Box Fridge Thing
Immaculate interior to the point its kinda sketchy, not even the usual tears in seats or anything at all
Not a speck of rust anywhere underneath, flawless
Radiator was replaced at dealer as preventive maintenance
Its one of the cleanest i've seen, but needs some obvious TLC (see what i did there?) due to the mileage.
I will be covering the restoration and mods here, but the vibe of the "build" portion will be following the legendary @TeCKis300 keep it light and stealthy mantra
Immediate "Needs" to figure out what all these fancy weird buttons and options do
Immediate "Fixes" are LCAs, which will snowball into UCA, which will snowball into suspension, which will snowball into replacing every single control arm front and rear, and since i am in there, i might as well DBA all the brakes, etc... due to mileage.
Also need to replace the door lock actuators in the rear, Do all at once?
Immediate "Mods" will be Slee Step Sliders
Without further ado, here are some obligatory first day poser pics
After a long hiatus, i am now back in the Cruiser game.
Some of you that have been around awhile (@KLF from our YT days) might know me from threads of stupid mods back in the day that ended up working great and getting stickied, such as:
-Retrofitting 80 series Elockers into an FJ60
-First US install of an LRA aux tank into an 80 using all OEM parts from OZ including overhead factory aux tank fuel gauge and OEM sub tank button
-Racing an 80 in the Baja1000 and giving that @cruiseroutfit fella a kick in the pants to start racing...
Anyway... After a couple years of searching for "THE ONE", I finally found it, oddly, from a long time friend and fellow Cruisernerd and got it home...
2010
210k On The Clock
Bone Stock
Cool Box Fridge Thing
Immaculate interior to the point its kinda sketchy, not even the usual tears in seats or anything at all
Not a speck of rust anywhere underneath, flawless
Radiator was replaced at dealer as preventive maintenance
Its one of the cleanest i've seen, but needs some obvious TLC (see what i did there?) due to the mileage.
I will be covering the restoration and mods here, but the vibe of the "build" portion will be following the legendary @TeCKis300 keep it light and stealthy mantra
Immediate "Needs" to figure out what all these fancy weird buttons and options do
Immediate "Fixes" are LCAs, which will snowball into UCA, which will snowball into suspension, which will snowball into replacing every single control arm front and rear, and since i am in there, i might as well DBA all the brakes, etc... due to mileage.
Also need to replace the door lock actuators in the rear, Do all at once?
Immediate "Mods" will be Slee Step Sliders
Without further ado, here are some obligatory first day poser pics
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