The Pickle (1 Viewer)

[yearz]

You have an awesome truck! Really cool to view the history of the mods.

Do you happen to remember back in the beginning how much time and money these repairs cost you:

- it had sat for 8-9 monthes in water brakes were all locked up and needed new calipers and rotors all the way around
- shocks were rusted out ( replaced with OME)

Thanks!

 

[fogblanket]

The brakes... I would do the calipers and rotors and soft lines calipers and rotors will cost you 2-300 from napa i would get the soft line kit fro slee 200

Fsm and a week end is what it took me and get a pressure bleeder no way to clear the abs module of air without one. Oh and clean the abs senors too

 

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I got my shocks from amazon and later the springs too and regret not doing them at the same time
Wish i had goneto cruiseroutfitters too great site with all the components for each lift
And thanks

 

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Cleaning up my wiring abit when i changed the radiator imoved the dual battery wiring from under the radiator crossmember to on top also switching out to military leads on all 4 terminals
Still need to add a bus bar for grounds and one for ignition hot for relays i would like to pull a clean power line where is a good spot to do that? Alternator?

 

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A little front grill work. I have the slee harness and aux light plug in but the way i have it wired off the aux battery one of my hi beam plugs didn t quite reach so i got an extension and finally have all six lights working
And switched the subraro for a bh teq emblem

 

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Pics of wings

 

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Crazy how time flies
So i went wheeling with another 80 (foxfab) on some tight atv trails close to home and my arb front bumper took a beating seems its rusting out from the inside so what started as some 3/8" wing protection has turned into a complete reskin of the hole bumper with 1/4" and 3/8" plate plus some side bars and tree slow ders for the rear quarters

 

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The plateing of the arb bumper has begun alot of flapper wheel in my future

 

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Bunch more stuff done
Finally started the sidebars

 

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Got a kewl underhood light setup from yodaTEQ top notch

 

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Picked up so roof rack lights from gramiviti and even made it onto his site great setup

 

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Nothing big
Changed the brake lines out and rebuilt the ebrake with all new parts nice to have a working ebrake.
Also added a rotopac gas can to the spare tire might build something fir underneath too

 

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Oh one weird project that blossomed out of contrl was swapping a 100 series jdm steering wheel
My 94 does not have airbags so i remive the one from the 100 then fabbed a horn mount using the 80 horn stuff and then plastic welded the contact ground peice to the 100 rear cover
Love the feel of this wheel over my hard 80 wheel

 

[jfz80]

I bet it looks pretty too
Cmon man dont hold out

 

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After a 5. Day rock crawling trip where i lost a brake caliper bolt and my buddies lx 450 sheared off his knuckle studs i have been getting my on vehicle tools in order , oh and thanks IPOR for the caliper bolt great guys
So i added a shovela nd axe mount that fits them behind the spare tire out of sight also started rear quarter protection that will get tied to the frame on the inside its pretty stout but its rear just meant to be a tree slider
I had my spare mounted on a wheel spacer nothing like not having the SAE socket to take the spare off so i rebuilt the carrier to use an old fj40 hub i had now i have spare cone washers and parts as well as some wheel studs i can use in a pinch
All this so u can keep the mice living in my garage company

 

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Started modufing my rook rack to have a set of 4 4" HID lights mounted as low profile as possible . I got the main hoop bent and cut in and welded was going to just tack it in but got carried away and just welded it up

 

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I think i need to add some forward hoops or bars to protect the lights from branches

 

[excessive]

enjoyed the thread, keep up the good work!

 

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Worked a bit more on my forward facing rack lights.... cause everyone needs roof rack lights right??? Cut the front off my rack and welded in a hoop then supports and started on the forward protection when i ran out of gas

 

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Got the rack done and back on