Meet Bruce and the transformation of my LC80
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duggy
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So those oil leaks that I sprung turned out to be my rear pan arch seal which blew out. I have huge oil puddle in the front of my street where I parked the truck.
I had a local LC mechanic (Patrick Connelly) replace the pan arch and turns out the rear main was leaking too. I had him tear down the tranny and transfer case to replace the rear main. I now have peace of mind that those two will never leak again.
I filled the holes from where my fender flares used to be and painted it with rubberized undercoating available at advanced auto parts. I also replaced my third member. No more pinion seal leak or howling!
Some pics from Brazos Valley Offroad Ranch at College Station, Texas
I had a local LC mechanic (Patrick Connelly) replace the pan arch and turns out the rear main was leaking too. I had him tear down the tranny and transfer case to replace the rear main. I now have peace of mind that those two will never leak again.
I filled the holes from where my fender flares used to be and painted it with rubberized undercoating available at advanced auto parts. I also replaced my third member. No more pinion seal leak or howling!
Some pics from Brazos Valley Offroad Ranch at College Station, Texas
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duggy
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phxtlc said:
In Arkansas' ozark mountains
This weekend will be deemed "maintenance hell". I will be performing some tasks that I have put off for a while but hopefully make some great improvements. I usually try to take pictures of the stuff I do on my truck just to have some type of history but I do also get into the swing of things and forget.
A few duties I will be performing are:
1) Rebuild front and rear calipers with Toyota OEM parts along with rebuilding rear brake shoes since my -ebrake does not work
2) Replacing front and rear rotors and bleeding the brake system
3) Switching wheels (if feasible) and ditching the old wheel weights for 8ounces of airsoft beads in each wheel
4) Swap fluid in my fan clutch and possibly tuning the fan to pump on at 95*
5) If I have time, swap out my power steering pump
9/2/12
Don't you hate it when you tear into a project and find all kinds of issues? Yeah, me too.
Took out the fan clutch and found that it was an aftermarket.
I already had the clutch out so I decided to do the fluid swap anyways. I open it up and looky what we have......
I swapped out with 10k and 20k fluid to experiment. I already found that the AC runs colder now at idle.
I take off the front driver wheel to start on the brakes and look what we have....
AXLE JOB TIME! Great.....
I finally had a basket made from my buddy. It's plenty strong and holds 3 gas cans or a cube cooler great. We cut up a hitch mounted carrier and made this
Also put the new d-window wheels on all 5 tires. I ran approx 8 ounces of beads in each wheel and at 45MPH, no shakes! I'll take it on the freeway to test out soon. Finally, no more lost wheel weights after wheelin!
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Very nice! Come on up to the hill country, climb some rocks, eat some BBQ, and hear some great music with us.
Lone Star Land Cruisers - 2012 - 9th Annual Lone Star Land Cruiser Round Up
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What a great thread. The burning couch, the LC bug and finally the 4X4 labs bumper! I am looking for a bumper right now and like Luke's bumper. I will be looking forward to your updates.
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duggy
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Some wheelin photos for you all.
On 35s and J lift f/r
Some updated pics of the rig. It has even more stickers now and has taken some pretty decent trips. I plan on attending Moab next year
12/07/12
Maintainence/mods thus far:
Rebuilt all calipers and did a brake job
2nd battery system is up and running with blue seas fuse block
My dedicated truck toolbox and kitchen are coming into place
Snorkel was installed
Trail-gear sliders welded onto the frame, but will be replacing with Metal Tech sliders
rear camp light
On 35s and J lift f/r
Some updated pics of the rig. It has even more stickers now and has taken some pretty decent trips. I plan on attending Moab next year
12/07/12
Maintainence/mods thus far:
Rebuilt all calipers and did a brake job
2nd battery system is up and running with blue seas fuse block
My dedicated truck toolbox and kitchen are coming into place
Snorkel was installed
Trail-gear sliders welded onto the frame, but will be replacing with Metal Tech sliders
rear camp light
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Tapage
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pic with bumper lights on .?
duggy
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2/28/13
This weekend I embarked on my axle rebuild....finally!
The truck no longer has a vibration at 30-70mph. It currently has 210,xxx miles and it looks like somebody may have been in there before. If it had not been done before.....well, it stood up pretty well for 210k miles. The axle seal on the passenger side was still in great condition. I got new rotors, wheel bearings, upper and lower trunion bearings and it rides great.
This weekend I embarked on my axle rebuild....finally!
The truck no longer has a vibration at 30-70mph. It currently has 210,xxx miles and it looks like somebody may have been in there before. If it had not been done before.....well, it stood up pretty well for 210k miles. The axle seal on the passenger side was still in great condition. I got new rotors, wheel bearings, upper and lower trunion bearings and it rides great.
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that front bumper really finished out the look of the truck! Cant wait to see it wheeling!
Nice dude ive been telling one of my friends to get that bumper... looks great! aAre u planning on running some offroad lights in the center of the bumper?
Sweer build thread. Truck looks great. I need those front and rear bumpers!!! Just having trouble coughing up alomst $2.5k for the both. Damn this is an expensive hobby sometimes. Problem is with the mods we do to these trucks we will never get are money back. Hard way to look at it but the truth.
rain76king
Wicked Pissah Cruisah Haulah a NLC.
Stop being such a kill joy Scott!
