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Exciting delivery day! Terrain Tamer parabolics have come in. They were delivered to a local freight terminal, they brought out the pallet and the very nice forklift driver helped me load it all into my Xterra. Very nice of them to help, and they had no issue taking away the pallet and dealing with my non-pickup truck. Good process.
Sadly I won’t have a chance to play with these parts for a little while, have to get the radiator on my TR3 replaced first so I can get that car off my lift and Otis up there. But nice to have the parts in hand. Should at least be able to open up the boxes this weekend and make sure everything is there.
Been a while since any updates — I’ve spent the last couple months dealing with some medical stuff that really knocked me back, and while I’m doing better I still have a ways to go. Given that I decided to have a local cruiser shop do some work on Otis. I was planning to spend this spring doing a comprehensive service, as I don’t really know the service history. Otis was well cared for by the previous owner, but I just wasn’t sure of everything. With the reality that I won’t be out in my shop much possibly until July (maybe) I decided to open up the toolbox and pull out the checkbook.
Plan is a full service: oil, diffs, gearbox, transfer case, valves, etc. Also doing the front hub service and a few other miscellaneous things — basically a baseline big service to make sure all is up to date and ready to go. They’ll be looking at a few small fixes (heater cable, temp gauge) and a desmog. Big chunk of change, but when I looked at my reality this year it was worth it. A friend used this shop recently for his FJ40 and was very happy with the work, so we’ll see how it goes. They’re also going to give me a quote to install the Terrain Tamer kit — if it’s reasonable I’ll probably have them do that as well.
I had planned to do all this work myself to really learn the truck, but my aging body had other ideas. Ah well!
I was wondering where you'd gone. I was very much looking forward to your updates. Hope you get well soon.
I was wondering where you'd gone. I was very much looking forward to your updates. Hope you get well soon.
Thanks! This medical stuff popped up out of the blue — one morning I was fine, that evening I was in the ICU. Yikes. Very eager to get back to driving and working on Otis (and all my other old car projects).
