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Hey, that Got Rocks sticker is covering up the glowing apple logo? Enjoy your new rubbers...but I gotta repeat that those big old school baja's are sweet lookin. Probably act like a sled in the snow though! Your old BFGs were great when we got 2 feet of the white death last week
. Love the front bumper. Merry Christmas bud
-Matt
Thanks Matt, Merry belated Christmas to you too! Glad those BFG's are treating you well, they were certainly great for me. My new MTR's will hopefully be great in the snow
Did a bunch of work today. Applied my fluid film, so we'll see how it protects over the winter. Not gonna lie, didn't think that fluid film would be the color of cold maple syrup

Here are a couple of reference photos for the rust condition as it was earlier today. I'll take some more after the winter to see how much this stuff really helps.
I was cleaning up after doing that today and my post man dropped off my steering box. Funny story about that, the steering box bled ATF all over the cardboard box it was shipped in and got everything near it covered in oil. It took a plane from Idaho out to Albany and apparently last week they had a bomb scare, so when they saw this package they flipped and held the plane on the runway for about an hour to make sure nothing bad was in it. The mailman said he was pissed because it was so heavy,

Anyway, got almost all the way through the install except the low pressure return line off of the pump froze up so I can't re-use it. Gotta find a new one of those tomorrow. There's a 60 in a local junkyard so I should be able to pick it up cheap, but we'll see. Didn't get a pic of the new box on there because it was dark when we were done hooking everything back up.
Old box:
Cleanest spot on the frame, bar none:
If you're running a 60 series pitman arm with an 80 series TRE, you need one of Luke's cone washers to fill the gap. If you need to swap arms for whatever reason that washer can be a PITA to get out. What I found was the easiest is to heat it up real good and put a 3/8" drive extension in the hole from the top down and hit it with a hammer. Pops right out.
Question about pitman arms. I had wanted to buy an 80 series pitman arm because it has less drop than the 60 arms, and this is what I pulled out of the box. Is this an 80 series' pitman arm? I believe in Kavik's SOA build thread, he said that an 80 arm is the least drop you can get without modifying anything major. Can I run this if I line it up correctly? I gotta go find that thread...
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