Builds Poppy- '84 FJ60

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I was offered a couple set of sample rear slide drawers from one of my Aussie vendors yesterday. I'll have to make side wings for the 60 series, but these may be available soon for the 60s...

I will be getting two sets of double rear drawers and wings for the 80, 100 and 200. The 100 set is going in Esme and the I will check fit in the 80 and 200...

Pretty excited to get these and check them out.

Jason

Pics are an 80 set-up...

 

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My front winch bumper will be going to @FJ6T more than likely. He's had dibs since I built it, HA!

Talking with Georg on a new H55F, TC and twin sticks.

I have the 4.11s on the shelf cleaned up and ready to install. I thought about putting my cable locked axles in Poppy, but I'm going to save these for my Dialilah build.

New bumpers coming soon.

J

 

[Willard]

Please start making inferior products, so we are not so tempered to buy. I am kidding of course. Keep up the solid work and thanks for making so many great offerings.

 

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Please start making inferior products, so we are not so tempered to buy. I am kidding of course. Keep up the solid work and thanks for making so many great offerings.

NOT A CHANCE... Nothing too good for my 60 brothers..

J

 

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OE winch bumper is SOLD..

Now onto more progress.

J

 

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Well after all the cruisers and years of building and working on them... I've never had a fusible link go bad. Andrea went out to the shop this morning to move Poppy out to bring Joe in and no brake lights, running lights, dome light, or heater fan. Started just fine and ran good...

Sure enough the red wire on the fusible link gave up the ghost.. I did quite a bit of welding on a few mock up bumpers, but this has NEVER been an issue in the past and the only thing I can attribute the failure to...

So, jumped in Esme and ran to my warehouse across town and grabbed a new fusible link of the shelves and in less than 60 seconds all was good again.

I guess I'll disconnect the battery from here on out when fabbing off Poppy.

J

Old link- red wire is burned..

New link and installed.

 

[lcwizard]

Well after all the cruisers and years of building and working on them... I've never had a fusible link go bad. Andrea went out to the shop this morning to move Poppy out to bring Joe in and no brake lights, running lights, dome light, or heater fan. Started just fine and ran good...

Sure enough the red wire on the fusible link gave up the ghost.. I did quite a bit of welding on a few mock up bumpers, but this has NEVER been an issue in the past and the only thing I can attribute the failure to...

So, jumped in Esme and ran to my warehouse across town and grabbed a new fusible link of the shelves and in less than 60 seconds all was good again.

I guess I'll disconnect the battery from here on out when fabbing off Poppy.

J

Old link- red wire is burned..
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New link and installed.

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Maybe it was the artic mouse. Rodents love wires. Looking at your weather any animal alive up there must have "artic" in it's name.
I too am gulty of not everdisconnecting a battery in 30 some years of welding on trucks.
Never had a problem yet but I try to keep the ground as close as possible to the weld area

 

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Maybe it was the artic mouse. Rodents love wires. Looking at your weather any animal alive up there must have "artic" in it's name.
I too am gulty of not everdisconnecting a battery in 30 some years of welding on trucks.
Never had a problem yet but I try to keep the ground as close as possible to the weld area

Ground was between the frame rails up front on the bumpers I was building the whole time. Its been nasty this week.. negative temps and 22" of snow. Poppy was in the shop for the past two weeks. Andrea said she didn't want to go out in the cold and said

HA!

J

 

[lcwizard]

I was annoyed when it dipped into the 40s here.

 

[lcwizard]

I love the aussie drawers. Mine are 19 years old now. Never an issue with function or wear

 

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I love the aussie drawers. Mine are 19 years old now. Never an issue with function or wear

Well I doubt these are the same Aussie drawers you have, HA!... They are from Optimum and I know they are sourced from China. I'm okay with that as long as I know up front. I've seen very similar that are rebadged, but no doubt from the same origin.

J

 

[lcwizard]

Back then there were only Aussie made drawers. They were reasonable because the Aussie dollar was less about 44 cents .I paid under a grand. Air lockers were 450.00 and my ARB coolers were 425.00 and 600.00 for the 30 and 50qt , respectively. The US dollar plummetted during the Iraq war and never realy came back to where it was. It's recovered some. During Bush's last years it was about 1:1, briefly surpassing ours. Now it hovers in the mid to high 70's. At that rate it's cheaper for the Aussies to outsource. They'll be dealing with the same outsource issues that we've been dealing with.

 

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Had some time this afternoon and started on the Poppy's rear bumper to finish out the day.

When I was cleaning I found some of the first high profile shells I had bent. So, one will get put to use. Pretty bad when you "find" 4 bumper shells....

J

 

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My Tough Dog suspension order has arrived at the Oakland port. Can't wait to get the lift on Poppy.

All of the 60/61/62 lift kits are spoken for or sold. I have another stock order behind this one and its about 45 days out.

J

 

[red66toy]

Oh yeah!

 

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Oh yeah!

There were 3 after you. Crazy week man!

J

 

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Received a care package from @klinetime574

Now to decide if I should 2FE or save for another rig one day.

J

 

[gregnash]

I was wondering if he was still holding on to all the stuff... LOL. Apparently not... I say 2FE it and go!

 

[klinetime574]

Yay. Looks like it all got there okay. Everything look good to you? @reevesci

Oh and I found a piece I left out. The air intake "silencer" I believe? Little black box. Probably about 6x3x3 in size. Should I send that to you?

 

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Yay. Looks like it all got there okay. Everything look good to you? @reevesci

Oh and I found a piece I left out. The air intake "silencer" I believe? Little black box. Probably about 6x3x3 in size. Should I send that to you?

All looks good. Yes send me the piece. I'll email you the address.

J