What have you done to your 100 Series this week? (22 Viewers)

[89BIGBLUE]

1200+ Round trip miles to family Thanksgiving event.
This was our first family road trip in the 99. I am still grinning! I love this thing!
Averaged about 17MPG, and thoroughly ENJOYED the 4 hours it took us to travel 158 miles from Tooele Ut to Price UT in winter storm conditions. We left in the dark, and were on the road before the plows. Even stopped a few minutes so the kids could throw snowballs!
Looking forward to more road trips in the Cruiser!

 

[sleepycruiser]

DRL Mod and the FML Mod.

 

[sportbiker929]

If you have access to a printer, I can send you a PDF of the brackets. You can then print out and trace onto your own piece of aluminum to cut. I couldn't find T-bolts or aluminum plate locally, so I ordered them from Amazon.

Please do, sportbiker929@gmail.com

Thanks so much!!

 

[Gesose]

Got a Christmas tree from the forest.

 

[Cola]

DRL Mod and the FML Mod.

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Just did both myself!

 

[jno]

I’m finally getting the 100 Series regeared with 4.88 Nitro Gears

 

[savirc]

What kind of wheels are those if you don't mind me asking? I think I've seen them before (true bead locks) where to find?

 

[bwell]

What kind of wheels are those if you don't mind me asking? I think I've seen them before (true bead locks) where to find?

Hutchinson Rock Monster wheels.

 

[Los182]

Replacing my fan bracket, started with a slight noise just a week ago and had a total failure of the bearing (I'd assume) as I pulled into the driveway from NAPA today. Can't complain too much about that. In the process of replacing it, but I'm not 100% what kind of coolant is in my truck. Is this DEX-COOL or was red and green mixed by previous owner/shop? I'm assuming red/green mix looks more like mud or chocolate milk...?

How do you know you had a total failure? Just asking for future reference. Do you have pictures of when you changed out the actual bracket?

 

[Los182]

Went to Anza Borrego in Southern California before the Thanksgiving holiday. I am liking this park more and more. It has mostly subtle views, but a wide range of desert topography. Will go again - and again I think. Sometimes you just like a place and uncertain what it is you like. This is one of those places for me. We used our second battery for electric heat in the back - just to warm the sleeping bag before we got in, made the wife happy. Mission accomplished!

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Have you been to Death Valley, if so how do the two compare?

 

[rjones]

Would love to know the Toyota part number for these--haven't been able to find it anywhere ... take-offs from a 79 series

@mdcoa @Cola

42611-60D30

I think he's correct about the 79 series (expand the "This part fits to" after the link loads):
Toyota 42611-60D30 (4261160D30) - Amayama

EBay ad from the UAE where the shipping is as much as the wheel.
4261160D30 Toyota Wheel Disc Genuine OEM Part | eBay

Cheers,
rjones

 

[custyota]

I let someone drive it off-road, no rocks were damaged

 

[bozncsurf]

I have a love hate with the BFG ko2s...

But after 15k miles these guys still look brand new

 

[Das Shtig]

Bought it a nice, complete toolkit, and a new bottle jack (mine bent when the truck’s weight shifted). Also bought and mounted a spare Kumho 285/75/16 AT51, and polished the chrome factory 16”s. Ordered a replacement front diff and got everything ready to do a power steering flush. And I scratched the sh!t out of a door

Edit: Oh, and a synthetic oil change — and I started bitching at Lexus again for breaking my AHC a few months back. We’ll see how that pans out....

 

[TheDan]

Painting my outpost offroad (opor) sliders i scored this spring from the metaltech group buy. Using vht chassis/roll bar paint. I had to clean the sliders up very well because they were brown/covered with surface rust from sitting in the humidity all summer while i was deployed. Once the paint is cured and the sliders are installed, i will be putting small patches of grip-tape on top of the sliders to assist with climbing in.
Meanwhile, the cruiser is with gary @ mudrak in sonoma getting a timing belt/waterpump job. (My 2yr old keeps asking me when 'thunder truck' will be back from the doctors office.)

 

[implayaz9]

@bozncsurf Any additional pics of your rig?

 

[reddog90]

New tires, wheels, 7" headlight conversion w/ grill and 2.5" TourFlex have all arrived. Also, swapped out the ABS master, pump and motor too...

J

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Interested to know how that headlight conversion came out.

 

[erse]

Painting my outpost offroad (opor) sliders i scored this spring from the metaltech group buy. Using vht chassis/roll bar paint. I had to clean the sliders up very well because they were brown/covered with surface rust from sitting in the humidity all summer while i was deployed. Once the paint is cured and the sliders are installed, i will be putting small patches of grip-tape on top of the sliders to assist with climbing in.
Meanwhile, the cruiser is with gary @ mudrak in sonoma getting a timing belt/waterpump job. (My 2yr old keeps asking me when 'thunder truck' will be back from the doctors office.)

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Roughly how many rattle cans did you end up using? Did you use the self etching primer? Slider painting may be in my near future

 

[gil12]

Have you been to Death Valley, if so how do the two compare?

Death Valley has incredible scenery - very dramatic and unusual sights and very desolate corners. It also has much darker night skies for me to use my telescopes. Their campgrounds are mostly flat unpleasant affairs - often with very high winds (bent thick aluminum poles of our tent, etc.) In Death Valley I am more inclined to drive to one sight to another.

Anza Borrego has more vegetation, good campgrounds, more options for getting a meal out, great public art sculptures. I drive to see other types of desert, not so much a particular sight.

Mojave is the other contender - higher elevation, unusual topography, Kelso dunes, moderately dark skies for astronomy.

Gil

 

[bucfl]

Painting my outpost offroad (opor) sliders i scored this spring from the metaltech group buy. Using vht chassis/roll bar paint. I had to clean the sliders up very well because they were brown/covered with surface rust from sitting in the humidity all summer while i was deployed. Once the paint is cured and the sliders are installed, i will be putting small patches of grip-tape on top of the sliders to assist with climbing in.
Meanwhile, the cruiser is with gary @ mudrak in sonoma getting a timing belt/waterpump job. (My 2yr old keeps asking me when 'thunder truck' will be back from the doctors office.)

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Never heard of this paint. I use some Krylon stuff and it keeps chipping where the kids and i step onto the slider. How does this hold up to being stepped on?