What Did You Do With Your 120 Today? (5 Viewers)
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Sure you can, friend! I'm sure lots of atheists like that look...Wow I can't spell
Super duper exciting mod today. Got the door handle inserts from someone on the GXOR - SoCal Facebook page.
Went out to the season opener for silver lake sand dunes. Had a blast, Caught ford engineers with a couple raptors, a couple Everglades and a few other random broncos
How did the new tires do? I’m getting close to needing some new shoes and debating on going up to a 285. Worried about power loss and mpg
Climbed test hill and all the other dunes with no issues. Averaged about 14.5 mpg on the 70 mile highway drive out. I did notice it coming out of overdrive a lot at 70mph indicated for any little rise in the road.
Looked at the pics without reading the quote...........was very impressed with your commitment to rice, and then I went back and read it haha. Looks a lot like the humongous bags of rice we would buy weekly when I was growing up. They used to come in the same bag material.Hauled some premix home. 10 bags at 60lbs each. A little sag I’d say
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I see that you have the Lenz snorkel. I have one also, but they didn't include the mounting template and it seems nearly impossible to get one at this point. Is there any chance you still have your template or any tips on installing that snorkel?
I got tired of walking to open my Metal Tech rear swing-out. I undo the latch on the driver's side and then walk over to the passenger side to pull up the safety locking pin. Sometimes the latch will fall back down and prevent me from opening the swing-out, so I have to walk back to dislodge it and walk back. In any case, I rigged up a lever by the latch so I can operate both components from the same spot. It's not fully done, but you get the idea.
Interesting concept!
If you removed the threaded ball from the spring loaded catch pin and threaded your all-thread hex nut directly down on top of the pin, the pulling force would lift the pin in it's natural path, removing and sheering force that's probably causing the pin to bind.
I'd love to get that in my garage and have free reign with my tools to tinker with the idea.
If you removed the threaded ball from the spring loaded catch pin and threaded your all-thread hex nut directly down on top of the pin, the pulling force would lift the pin in it's natural path, removing and sheering force that's probably causing the pin to bind.
I'd love to get that in my garage and have free reign with my tools to tinker with the idea.
Took a trip up to Hidden falls with a buddy and their Gladiator on 37s.
Definitely have some rubbing and ended up pulling the rear sway bar but it impressed the hell out of me. Ended up going up 3/4s of a 4 star trail.
Don’t have a ton of pics yet (buddies were taking the pics) but here’s a couple. The long travel rear is insane lol (previously coming from an 08 FJ with OME all the way around)
Definitely have some rubbing and ended up pulling the rear sway bar but it impressed the hell out of me. Ended up going up 3/4s of a 4 star trail.
Don’t have a ton of pics yet (buddies were taking the pics) but here’s a couple. The long travel rear is insane lol (previously coming from an 08 FJ with OME all the way around)
Replaced the 200k mile oem rear shocks with Luft Meisters brand (ordered directly from their website). Used a c-clamp to hold the shock in place and linked a 17mm and 18mm wrench together to get a little leverage on the top bolt. A little too much leverage I guess. sheared off the top nut and shaft on both shocks. Also broke one of the lower bolts. Luckily I had a bolt in my toolbox to use until I can order 2 new lower bolts, just to be safe. I have only driven about 20 miles on the new shocks, but seem way better so far. Maybe a little firm, but maybe they'll loosen up. Seems firm in all 4 settings. Much more control in the rear and a few less clunks and thunks. I will do the fronts some time this summer.
I thought I was the only one with taped custom length wrench’s!
Awesome!!
Front wheel hub and bearings replaced today. Went with bluepit. No regrets.
Drove up to my dad’s place. Spent the afternoon wrenching with him and just shooting the s***. One of the best days in a long time.
Drove up to my dad’s place. Spent the afternoon wrenching with him and just shooting the s***. One of the best days in a long time.
I'll probably need some more miles on them to give proper feedback, but for $220 total shipped to my door in 2 days, they seem totally worth it so far. Lots of bang for the buck. I could compress the old ones easily by hand and had very little/slow rebound. I didn't see any Toyota markings on these, but feel and appearance seems to be the same as OEM.
I forgot to mention the spare tire ‘drop’ on the Metal Tech rear bumper. The factory location seemed obnoxiously high, which blocked a llot of the rear view. I bought an ‘el cheapo’ Harbor Freight drop-hitch and took my angle grinder to several areas so it wouldn’t hit the body. It dropped the spare about 6” and gives a lot more view out of the rear, and I can pull the spare assembly off by pulling a locking hitch pin with the turn of a key.
I’ll show original position vs. modded.
I’ll show original position vs. modded.
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