The adventure of big blue the lx450 @highsierra4x4

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Finally back in a cruiser after about a year I started with a white 91Fj80, lockers armor 37s. I sold that and built a mini truck from scratch 3 link 63s and 40s. I then traded that for a 95 fzj80 that got a spartan locker and 40s with a lot of trimming I had to sell that one to fund the move from Cali to South Carolina. And after a year I found this lx450 that was all ready chock full of good parts and by the looks has never seen the rocks.

This will be a build thread of what I end up doing with it! It’s first major trip will be a drive from SC back to Cali for king of the hammers

 

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And finally the new LX450

 

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It needs the knuckles rebuilt but other than that it doesn’t have any leaks. Head was replaced at 250,000 miles. It dose have a starting issue and a random stalling out with a solid 50 sec of cranking before it will fire back up. It also has a random high idle issue and I’ve checked all vacuum lines.

 

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First thing I did was send the Baja designs lights back to Baja design for a rebuilt and started to clean up the PO wire job

 

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Got some interior lights installed and started working on reducing some sound

 

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Working on sound

 

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All are good looking rigs but your 91 is my favorite, might be that it is white. White looks so good.

 

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Got the camping lights installed for cooking and stuff along with power for the fridge and a switch panel to run anything else I put back there

 

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Also got a chase light and rock lights installed for the up coming trip to king of the hammers.

 

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Also took a trip to uwharrie did some wheeling

 

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New lower links and scored a case for 25 bucks going to rebuild and put lower gears in it

 

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Cleans up the center console and dash PO had stuff mounted all over with wires hanging and Land Rover cup holders. I didn’t like it so I removed most of it and mounted everything under the radio.

PO set up

The new set up

 

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Took a trip to Gulches