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I haven't heard back about the Ultimate Adventure yet but that hasn't stopped me from taking my 60 apart looking for problems.
I found a loose pinion on the 14 bolt so I have the rear axle apart now. I want to put in a solid pinion spacer instead of the crush sleeve. Seems that you can't buy a solid spacer so I will have one made next week. I will have the pinion adapter machined down as well since I think I smacked it on a rock causing the loose pinion. Thinking of installing a 14 bolt pinion protector as well.
I just finished installing a transfer case ebrake. Since I didn't have an ebrake after installing the 14 bolt rear axle with disk brakes I needed to find an ebrake. TSMMFG FJ 60 Land Cruiser sells a bolt on kit that installed great. It seems to clamp well but since the cruiser is on jack stands I can't fully test it yet. I had to modify the stock ebrake cable but easy to do. I had to modify my rear antiwrap bar cross member to get the rotor to fit and that took most of the afternoon yesterday but its done now.
Next I'm looking into adding one or two bolts to my steering knuckles. I will be making my own setup so I hope to get going on that this week.
My rear axle has 9/16 wheel studs but the front adapters have M14. I figured I would modify the front adapter to put 9/16 wheel stubs in but trying to drill out the holes with a piece of junk HF drill press I got a couple of the holes crooked and by the time I got them straightened out the studs are loose.
Trying to find lug nuts to fit aftermarket wheels sucks. I think I will be good to go after new wheel adapters come in and I get them machined to fit a cruiser and I install the splined M14 lug nuts.
My cruiser has dust on it from being in the garage and getting worked on. Time to get this thing back together and on the trails.
FJ60 on 39" BFG Krawlers.
I found a loose pinion on the 14 bolt so I have the rear axle apart now. I want to put in a solid pinion spacer instead of the crush sleeve. Seems that you can't buy a solid spacer so I will have one made next week. I will have the pinion adapter machined down as well since I think I smacked it on a rock causing the loose pinion. Thinking of installing a 14 bolt pinion protector as well.
I just finished installing a transfer case ebrake. Since I didn't have an ebrake after installing the 14 bolt rear axle with disk brakes I needed to find an ebrake. TSMMFG FJ 60 Land Cruiser sells a bolt on kit that installed great. It seems to clamp well but since the cruiser is on jack stands I can't fully test it yet. I had to modify the stock ebrake cable but easy to do. I had to modify my rear antiwrap bar cross member to get the rotor to fit and that took most of the afternoon yesterday but its done now.
Next I'm looking into adding one or two bolts to my steering knuckles. I will be making my own setup so I hope to get going on that this week.
My rear axle has 9/16 wheel studs but the front adapters have M14. I figured I would modify the front adapter to put 9/16 wheel stubs in but trying to drill out the holes with a piece of junk HF drill press I got a couple of the holes crooked and by the time I got them straightened out the studs are loose.
Trying to find lug nuts to fit aftermarket wheels sucks. I think I will be good to go after new wheel adapters come in and I get them machined to fit a cruiser and I install the splined M14 lug nuts.
My cruiser has dust on it from being in the garage and getting worked on. Time to get this thing back together and on the trails.
FJ60 on 39" BFG Krawlers.
It will only work for you if you don't break it though. You'll end up putting Dana 60's under it. 
