By the way. Romer I'd like to applaud your effort organizing the 80 area here. Best organized forum I have ever seen.
Keep up the good work
Keep up the good work
Builds Romer ROTW II
- Thread starter Romer
- Start date
This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate
links, including eBay, Amazon, Skimlinks, and others.
- Thread starter
- #62
With medium lift and all the armor, it rode fine, but the weight lowered the lift. Nice thing about OME, just a little bit of time to swap springs and then you can resell the springs for 2/3's of what you paid for, so not to expensive to upgrade.
The dents were straightned by Oleg, he pounded, filled, slightly, sanded and painted.
semlin
curmudgeon
slight hijack to let ddorsh know that adding a warn 10k winch to my arb slightly overwhelmed my medium lift at the front
Funny thing is I'm in the 99.99 percentile for head size lol.Junk get the bighead? No way.
-B-
I'm like a fungus - never go completely away.
Junk get the bighead? No way.
-B-
Isn't that his momma's nickname?
sorry, couldn't resist a momma joke with Junk around.
Sweet rig Romer!
Rigs looking good there Romer. See ya at the meeting
Great write up Ken. After going to the supercharger, do you have any concerns about your transmission flairing between gears?
Buck Buchanan
Buck Buchanan
- Thread starter
- #68
nice to hear from you Buck, No concerns. Can't wait to re-gear. these big and heavy Toyo MT's drag it dwon a bit.
See you at Moab Buck
When I see you and Tim at Moab, you won't believe the transformation of my truck.
Buck
Buck
That thing has just about every goody you could want on an 80, great write up, thank you for all the pics, it is neat to watch the progression 
LEXUS LX450 front bumper Q's
I own the same type, LX450, vehicle but with 170K!
My wife rear-ended another truck & tore up her front bumper. The repair shop wants $450 to fix it but i am trying to lean her towards an ARB and I think your testimony and pictures will help me with her.
However, if she still wants it back to stock, would you still have your original bumper for sale to me?
Thanks for a great thread and glad to hear no one was hurt.
I own the same type, LX450, vehicle but with 170K!
My wife rear-ended another truck & tore up her front bumper. The repair shop wants $450 to fix it but i am trying to lean her towards an ARB and I think your testimony and pictures will help me with her.
However, if she still wants it back to stock, would you still have your original bumper for sale to me?
Thanks for a great thread and glad to hear no one was hurt.
Bowyer,
If Romer doesn't still have his available you might want to check the for sale section here. Or, I will have one available soon coming off my black LX450 so you'd have to have it painted. Not sure where you are located so you may want to search locally to save $$ on shipping.
If Romer doesn't still have his available you might want to check the for sale section here. Or, I will have one available soon coming off my black LX450 so you'd have to have it painted. Not sure where you are located so you may want to search locally to save $$ on shipping.
- Thread starter
- #73
I have two front bumpers of the same color. I'll PM you
Great write-up, Ken! Nice LX, too.
Very nice rig! Are you still happy/satisfied with the mounting of the pda? How is that mounting system holding up? I have the garmin blutooth with an ipaq and I want to mount it in the same place as yours. Right now i just have it wedged inbetween the ash tray and the stereo.
Thanks,
Ben
Thanks,
Ben
- Thread starter
- #76
That mount is holding up well and was worth the extra money. I have wheeled with it and poped the Dell in and out many times with no issues.
Romer,
Kudos on your rig and the upgrades. I have a 97' 40th anniversary Limited Edition TLC No. 0914. I bought it with 85k miles and have 134k on it now and it drives like a champ. I took off the running boards due to light rust. I plan on sanding and repainting, but I liked the way your rig looked. My rig is basically the same color and you pretty much sold me on the lift pkg you have. I am also interested in learning more about the TRD supercharger and how much $ it was.
I live in WI so not much hardcore wheeling, but once it is set to go, I would be willing to make the trek to some rallies! Any within 12 hrs or so? I am about 7-8 hours from St. Louis. I will see when the next rally in MO is.
I will try put some pics on here soon.
Rivera5
97 TLC 40th Anniv. Ltd Edition
Kudos on your rig and the upgrades. I have a 97' 40th anniversary Limited Edition TLC No. 0914. I bought it with 85k miles and have 134k on it now and it drives like a champ. I took off the running boards due to light rust. I plan on sanding and repainting, but I liked the way your rig looked. My rig is basically the same color and you pretty much sold me on the lift pkg you have. I am also interested in learning more about the TRD supercharger and how much $ it was.
I live in WI so not much hardcore wheeling, but once it is set to go, I would be willing to make the trek to some rallies! Any within 12 hrs or so? I am about 7-8 hours from St. Louis. I will see when the next rally in MO is.
I will try put some pics on here soon.
Rivera5
97 TLC 40th Anniv. Ltd Edition
- Thread starter
- #78
Thanks
The Supercharger was $2900, but they have just discountinued it. Might see if you can still find one.
We will be having a ralley in Denver in August. This will be followed by trail runs in the rockies. We will post detail in the trails section after Cruise Moab in May
Your rig is amazing looking.
How many years have you been working on it?
How many years have you been working on it?
Really nice rig! Looks like you have finally gotten it to where it should have been off of the assembly line. -but working on it is half the fun, right?
Nice job!
Nice job!
