so no ID on this bumper guard? or am I really just in the wrong forum? I remember a thread re this topic but was unable to find it.
What did you do with your 60 this weekend?
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One side done.
It ain't pretty but it'll do.
It ain't pretty but it'll do.
LandyCruiser
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Mine came with a similar model. Very 90s. I love it, but have no idea of the make. Crazily it’s only held on with 4 m8 bolts
Probably do more damage than good if you hit something.
Loaded a crusty 80 series and shipped it off to GA so that the good parts may live on in other rigs. It had no engine so we used the Warn 12K on the FJ60 to drag it on the trailer.
Looking good!
I had my steering box rebuilt twice by redhead for my 5.9, each time it leaked out of the box.
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Worked on the Cruiser all weekend and then took it for a ride to check my work.
Cleaned and Degreased the entire back, put down kylomat and a closed cell foam. Made new panel cards for the rear; I drilled out the holes and put Rivnuts in that take a M8 button heads.
Installed an actual radio system(ish), I have terrible feed back currently (suggestions?) and now have a fancy head unit. I didn't tell the wife what i did to the rig and whilst driving this evening she goes: "How did it get so quiet in here?". I would say thats a success!
Also I had some rust work done about a year ago now. Every time I tear into the car to do something I find something that I can't believe i paid good money for. Last weekend it was a bondo closed drain hole on my rear passenger door. This Weekend: Trashbag used as a vapor barrier. I mean its what I would of done, but I am not a professional and don't charge people.
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Worked on the Cruiser all weekend and then took it for a ride to check my work.
Cleaned and Degreased the entire back, put down kylomat and a closed cell foam. Made new panel cards for the rear; I drilled out the holes and put Rivnuts in that take a M8 button heads.
Installed an actual radio system(ish), I have terrible feed back currently (suggestions?) and now have a fancy head unit. I didn't tell the wife what i did to the rig and whilst driving this evening she goes: "How did it get so quiet in here?". I would say thats a success!
Also I had some rust work done about a year ago now. Every time I tear into the car to do something I find something that I can't believe i paid good money for. Last weekend it was a bondo closed drain hole on my rear passenger door. This Weekend: Trashbag used as a vapor barrier. I mean its what I would of done, but I am not a professional and don't charge people.
Took my truck up the Boulder Canyon here in Colorado to see my sister and drop off an oriental rug. First time up any major inclines at altitude with the desmog and sniper set up. It was absolutely amazing until about 1/4 mile from her house when my lokar cable seized up and I reved up past 4K. Had to kill the engine and jump off the road into someone’s driveway. For sale sign said I was in the right spot… lol… when I installed the lokar cable I had used a plastic clip in the hand throttle provision on my gas pedal. It seems that plastic piece wore out within 200 miles and wouldn’t hold the cable in place. When I let off the throttle to shift gears the pedal kinked the core cable preventing it from retiring to zero. I tried to straighten it. I had some jb weld putty on hand and tried to use that to reattach the cable to the pedal but it was a no go. Walked up to my sister’s house. Got a ride down to town and picked up a Mr Gasket cable and installed it in the dark as the temperatures plummeted. Would you believe it works better then before? Finally got off the mountain and drank a beer. Happy birthday to me… lol
Got dirty
WoodnotRust
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Got her clean and can't wait to get it dirty again.
Drove the rig home to NM from Flagstaff after @kelly saad finished a long-awaited repaint in the original metallic beige. I had added sound deadening below the new carpet, but adding it to the doors and new door seals really reduced the road noise.
One day soon I will compile all the little bits to show a retrospective build. Maybe Kelly will drop photos showing another example of his work? I'm driving her down to Albuquerque this morning to get a new interior... almost done?
Drove the rig home to NM from Flagstaff after @kelly saad finished a long-awaited repaint in the original metallic beige. I had added sound deadening below the new carpet, but adding it to the doors and new door seals really reduced the road noise.
One day soon I will compile all the little bits to show a retrospective build. Maybe Kelly will drop photos showing another example of his work? I'm driving her down to Albuquerque this morning to get a new interior... almost done?
Depinning Delphi connectors, adding some wires, shortening some wires, wrapping in a relay for revese lights, and measuring for braided loom. If you are doing a LS Swap (or ANY engine swap) and looking for a harness, I HIGHLY recommend looking for a harness that has a fuse block with at least 10 Fuses.
If you look carefully at most of these harnesses on the market, a lot of them come with like 4 fuses. So your Transmission, coils, left and right bank injectors, and who knows what else are all protected by one fuse. Would you mount your light bars, arb compressor, Cig lighter, and stereo system all to one fuse? Nope. If you unloom the harness, youll notice a ton of pink wires going into one of the same size. Have an injector trip out your fuse? Goodbye TCC Lockup, and have fun figuring out what of the 9 things connected to that fuse tripped it! Also look for one using a bussman waterproof buss bar. So you can either build your own harness, buy a harness that has a 4 fuse box, depin and split your $700 harness and rebuild it or find something thats split up a little bit better.
This is a painless performance harness. Its got 10 fuses and its split out pretty well. If i wasnt so pressed for time, i would ideally like to split it out a little bit more for the fuses. This one at least has injectors on its own fuse, coils on its own fuse, etc. If i had more time on my hands, i would split it out to left bank injectors and right bank injectors, etc. My 60 is my daily so im trying to get it back on the road asap. Its been 7 weeks since i pulled the 2f, and 4.5 weeks since putting the ls in. Hoping to be done and back driving down the road in 2 or 3 weeks from today.
Also Slowly replacing as many of the funky old Toyota connectors in the OEM harness with Delphi GT weatherpack connectors
If you look carefully at most of these harnesses on the market, a lot of them come with like 4 fuses. So your Transmission, coils, left and right bank injectors, and who knows what else are all protected by one fuse. Would you mount your light bars, arb compressor, Cig lighter, and stereo system all to one fuse? Nope. If you unloom the harness, youll notice a ton of pink wires going into one of the same size. Have an injector trip out your fuse? Goodbye TCC Lockup, and have fun figuring out what of the 9 things connected to that fuse tripped it! Also look for one using a bussman waterproof buss bar. So you can either build your own harness, buy a harness that has a 4 fuse box, depin and split your $700 harness and rebuild it or find something thats split up a little bit better.
This is a painless performance harness. Its got 10 fuses and its split out pretty well. If i wasnt so pressed for time, i would ideally like to split it out a little bit more for the fuses. This one at least has injectors on its own fuse, coils on its own fuse, etc. If i had more time on my hands, i would split it out to left bank injectors and right bank injectors, etc. My 60 is my daily so im trying to get it back on the road asap. Its been 7 weeks since i pulled the 2f, and 4.5 weeks since putting the ls in. Hoping to be done and back driving down the road in 2 or 3 weeks from today.
Also Slowly replacing as many of the funky old Toyota connectors in the OEM harness with Delphi GT weatherpack connectors
thanks for info. that two tone color combo is my fave in the cruiser palette.
PO put aftermarket ones on our '88 and they were quite shaky. replaced with OEM from Toyotapartsdeal for $130.
Started pulling the leaf springs to make way for a OME 2inch lift kit. Can anyone use the factory springs? Seem to be in pretty good shape even the factory shocks are not dead, maybe for a restoration. 120K and I don't think this have ever been loaded heavy or towed anything.
Those spring pins just slid right out of the rubber??? You lucky sob…. Most of us resort to days of fire and BFHs…
My front ones did too, all except one that put up a little bit of a fight. Didn't need any heat though so I mark it a W.
So is this not the harness that came with the LS, or am I misunderstanding?
No this a separate harness. This one is a standalone harness that goes in place of the stock LS one. If i had more time i was originally going to depin the original harness and build one out of it, but that would have added a few weeks of work so i just went with this painless one. You can build one out of the Stock LS harness, but youll have to unloom it and remove a ton of stuff you wont be using anymore and then reloom it. This harness pretty much drops in and connects the motor stuff to the pcm and then you tie in a few things from your 60 into it like AC Request, reverse lights with a relay, efans if you are using those, cruise control, power and ground etc.
This is the one I used.
2003-2006 GM Gen III 4.8/5.3/6.0L EFI Harness – Throttle by Wire Part No 60221
Engine: 4.8L, 5.3L, 6.0L w/ Throttle By Wire Trans.: 4L60E, 4L65E, 4L70E, 4L80E, 4L85E, or manual Number of Circuits: 10 Fuses with 2 Ignition, 1 Cooling Fan & 1 Fuel Pump Relay Harness Length: 4 Feet Between Engine and ECM Fuse Type: Mini Blade Firewall Passthrough: Grommet Color Code Based...
www.painlessperformance.com
I originally had a lesser quality harness on order but due to supplier issues went with this one and very very glad i did
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