You should NEVER have read this build thread!!!!! You will be beating your head against the wall just as I am right now!!!! Such nice work....then I look at mine!!!Took me all week but I made it thru the build thread......absolutely beautiful work and attention to detail. The perfect mix of OEM originality and new school technology. I just picked up my first FJ55 and have so many great ideas from the work you have documented and shared on this site along with everybody elses experiances and comments along the way. My notebook is full of various things I wrote down. Then to see this work of art wheeled out west with your co-pilotby your side is the icing on the cake. Just good stuff! Heres to a beer raised in honor of "Mud Hen"
Builds SLOW 71
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LAMBCRUSHER
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we all need a target to shoot at...
LAMBCRUSHER
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get some pontoons, Ron!
LAMBCRUSHER
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or just snorkle it and DIVE DIVE DIVE
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Made it out, but went an hour out of our way. Made it close to the Colorado border today and roll into Moab tomorrow. She is running smooth ( at 60 mph ).
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Travel update, left Moab a day early since the transfer wouldn't stay in low range, we decided to explore New Mexico a little. Met up with Ridejgs ,Pablo and Overhanger had a great time with them. Went to Chaco Culture Monument ( Indian ruins ) and now we're in Cochiti Lake, going to the Tent Rocks tomorrow. Drove some great Forest Service roads (dirt) getting down to Santa Fe.
I'll have a few pictures when we make it home. Looks like a new transfer case is in the future.
Want to thank the Rising Sun group and TLCA for such a great event. We met a lot of new friends and touched base some old friends. We'll be back next year with the improved SLOW 71.
I'll have a few pictures when we make it home. Looks like a new transfer case is in the future.
Want to thank the Rising Sun group and TLCA for such a great event. We met a lot of new friends and touched base some old friends. We'll be back next year with the improved SLOW 71.
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Had I known, I would have driven up to Santa Fe to meet you. You'll enjoy Tent Rocks, very beautiful there. If you're passing through ABQ, let me know. I know I owe you a beer for all those ideas I stole from your build thread.
Low range gear set 4:1? While your in there kinda thing.
PabloCruise
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It was good to see you! Sorry about the t case...
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NookShneer,
Exactly, I'm calling Georg and let him set me up. The transfer case was, in my mind a weak link from the start. I've got a new redo list started and hopefully get them done for he Pig Party.
Thanks Pablo, I'll keep plugging away at it until it works right!
Exactly, I'm calling Georg and let him set me up. The transfer case was, in my mind a weak link from the start. I've got a new redo list started and hopefully get them done for he Pig Party.
Thanks Pablo, I'll keep plugging away at it until it works right!
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Man, New Mexico is having some wild weather. We went through hail, snow, rain and threats of tornados. Beautiful country all the same.
Abqcruiser, you get hit with all that. We left the Tent Rocks Monument with @ four inches of hail on the ground. Amazing!
Abqcruiser, you get hit with all that. We left the Tent Rocks Monument with @ four inches of hail on the ground. Amazing!
Ron,
Why was the transfer case popping out of gear?
Is it linkage related or something internal?
bobm
WTF, WTF, WTF!!!!
Especially low range???
Yeah, I was thinking about you two while it was all going on. We generally have good weather, but when it's not....well, as you witnessed, it's gets pretty wild. Glad you made it through. If you're still in the area, I can probably put you up at my folks house in Placitas, if you need to wash the dust off.
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I'm not really sure why it was popping out, but it was also grinding gears trying to go back in ( clutch? ). I had met Jason from Redline and he thought the popping out of gear was a shim problem ( preload ) and that might very well be as I can't remember putting any in. Anyway going to start over with a different one and a different clutch.
Update on the trip... after we left the Tent Rocks all hell broke loose, the weather, the wagon and our Son had to have emergency gall bladder surgery. The surgery went bad and he had to be shipped to St. Louis for another surgery to fix the screwed up first one, leaking bile. He is having that done in the morning, so needless to say my Wife wanted to get home. I drove straight threw from New Mexico. Rain followed us the whole way, somewhere along the way my Wife says " you better turn on the wipers " and I thought they are on, her wiper was gone, laying on the hood with the gear stripped out, I drove all the way home with one wiper. Close to 20 hours straight, we're home and I'm drinking a couple of well deserved beers, 3am in the morning.
Update on the trip... after we left the Tent Rocks all hell broke loose, the weather, the wagon and our Son had to have emergency gall bladder surgery. The surgery went bad and he had to be shipped to St. Louis for another surgery to fix the screwed up first one, leaking bile. He is having that done in the morning, so needless to say my Wife wanted to get home. I drove straight threw from New Mexico. Rain followed us the whole way, somewhere along the way my Wife says " you better turn on the wipers " and I thought they are on, her wiper was gone, laying on the hood with the gear stripped out, I drove all the way home with one wiper. Close to 20 hours straight, we're home and I'm drinking a couple of well deserved beers, 3am in the morning.
hope goes well with son............
bobm
WTF, WTF, WTF!!!!
Hope sons ok.
keeping you and your family in our prayers.