RHD JDM mall crawler

[Oregon trail]

It's the weirdest thing how it moves. It can flex so freely and then still feel more stable in other situations. Nice work

So true. I took it to bend this weekend and found some snow and it’s amazing how well it works now. Doing the 3 and 4 link before was a massive increase in performance but this is a big bump. I’m super impressed.

 

[Oregon trail]

I took the cruiser out this weekend for a shake down run and managed to find a good bit of snow. Didn’t take much pictures but it was a good day. Met up with a group in Bend Oregon and trailered to the staging area and we went up into the mountains from there. There was a large group of us around 17 rigs but we managed to find some leaves places to play around and do some hill climbed and even a few down trees and rocks to crawl over. Around 2 most of the group left and the remaining 6 of us were on 37s and up and went and tried to push to a lake at higher elevation. We never made it there and I’m not even sure how deep the snow was but I was sinking to my hips and I wasn’t at the bottom.

Overall I’m super impressed with how the coilovers have improved the ride think works flawless and the milestar MT02s did phenomenal aired down to 3 PSi.

also today I got some gears in the mail! I’m very excited for these. I already have 3.1:1 low range gears and 10% reduction high range but with these 4.88s it should really help! The rig has always done decent with 4:10s but that’s only because of the low end torque and I will get a lot back with these.

 

[Oregon trail]

Well it turned out it’s a good thing I got those new gears. While getting my new project into the driveway using the winch, I was repositioning the 80 and the rear bound up and acted weird but there was also a couple pops that was odd. I’ll add the rear when I get driveshaft bind it drives the body into the ground and the rear up and it seamed stuck. I think this is because later while on jackstands I noticed my driveshaft was fairly bend. So I held the brake and pushed on the throttle to try and get it to drop back down. Nothing excessive I felt. After a loud bang my wife heard with her noise canceling AirPods in while in our house I now had some not so great noises that appeared to be in the front end.

I did some investigating and found on jack stands and in drive the front and rear would turn while in gear but occasionally there would be a pop and some gear skipping sounds and the front would stopping spinning but the driveshaft would continue.

Found this shard on the fill plug as well.

I’ll see if I can get the drain plug off over the weekend but that has smeared metal all over it.

 

[cruzinfj1]

That sucks, but at least it happened in your driveway!! What's up with that ring gear?

*Nevermind, I was blind without my contacts in this morning. Just realized the packing foam was sticking through. Im an idiot!! lol

 

[AgentOrange]

That's not ideal, but at home is best case scenario. Time for gears to go in

 

[Oregon trail]

That sucks, but at least it happened in your driveway!! What's up with that ring gear?

Yeah kinda crazy but I’m assume and know I was very hard on those front gears snow wheeling. So I’m assuming they were ready to go.

 

[Oregon trail]

That's not ideal, but at home is best case scenario. Time for gears to go in

Definitely! I think I’ve settled on trying to set them up myself. Was going to have them done but I should learn sometime.

 

[cruzinfj1]

You can definitely set them up yourself. LOTS of threads/vids out there, just take your time and when you do get pissed, walk away for a bit. Throwing tools doesn't make it any better.... lol

 

[ThreeEyedBandit]

Gears are fun and can be relaxing when not rushed. Keep things clean, writing notes and taking your time will make it much more enjoyable!

Rough find, but it's time to do it!