What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week? (16 Viewers)

[tstepp920]

Catching up on this thread and saw this. I’m curious what you did to reinforce the factory bumper to suit a winch. Or is that custom fab’d? It looks amazing.

My OEM bumper was modified to fit an 8274 but I’ve doubted whether it’d handle a full stress pull.

I bought a reinforcing kit from a MUD member that is selling them. I will see if I can find the link.

 

[tstepp920]

Catching up on this thread and saw this. I’m curious what you did to reinforce the factory bumper to suit a winch. Or is that custom fab’d? It looks amazing.

My OEM bumper was modified to fit an 8274 but I’ve doubted whether it’d handle a full stress pull.

Here you go. 8274 Winch Mounting Plate - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/8274-winch-mounting-plate.1030247/

 

[Honger]

Here you go. 8274 Winch Mounting Plate - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/8274-winch-mounting-plate.1030247/

Thanks! That's a fantastic solution.

Did you weld it into the stock bumper? Do the shackle mounts have reinforcement on the back of the bumper at all?

 

[Krenie]

Finished plumbing in my brake lines.

 

[tstepp920]

Thanks! That's a fantastic solution.

Did you weld it into the stock bumper? Do the shackle mounts have reinforcement on the back of the bumper at all?

I did not weld the support assembly to my bumper. It comes in 3 pieces . Those are welded together, centered in the bumper to locate my fairlead. Should my bumper be struck on the ends I can remove the winch support without have to cut it up. The shackles mounts are directly in line with the frame end.

 

[76 PTO]

Added new shoes!!!!!

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

Started it for the first time since before Christmas. Checked the fuel level in the sight glass before I cranked it, fuel was right at the bottom of the glass.

Pulled the choke, pumped it 3 times, cranked it, cranked it again, cranked it a third time and it came to life.

Let it settle down to normal rpm, pushed the choke back in and let it idle for about 10 minutes.

 

[Honger]

Re-spooled my winch cable... in my side yard with the Troopy as an anchor.

 

[NHFJ]

snapped off a helie coil in my stripped out thermostat bolt hole ...f@#k!!!

 

[Blue77FJ40]

Time to look into Time Serts. A much better alternative to helicoils.

 

[blossett]

Scored a nice set of front door vapor barriers from @GA Architect!

 

[projectTuRD]

Spent a minute on the ashtray. The pocket door is next.
Acetone, purple scotchbrite pads and Rustoleum satin nickel spray paint.

 

[letterman52]

Fresh foam, hardware, and made a leg for the seats out of 1/2 EMT.

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

Front coil conversion kit is set. I stretch the front wheelbase 2.5". 40 axle with 80 series coils and components.

J

 

[Purpleaction]

Goodies arrived from @SMG .....

 

[Purpleaction]

My rig has an HFS suspension lift that only has about 20k miles on it but it’s about 10 years old.
These bushings just arrived and I hope to replace this weekend.

 

[steffan]

the coil setup is nice - very clean!

 

[fjdiesel]

I second that!! Looks pretty sweet!!

Front coil conversion kit is set. I stretch the front wheelbase 2.5". 40 axle with 80 series coils and components.

J

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the coil setup is nice - very clean!

 

[Brian/99uzj100]

I was under my 40 looking at all of the fluid leaks and noticed that my rear drive shaft was out of phase, so I remedied that problem.
It rides much smoother on the highway now.

What is weird is that the last time the driveshaft was off of the diff was 18 years ago, when Man-A-Fre installed my rear ARB locker.
They were still in LA then. I'm not mad at them for the driveshaft, I should have noticed it years ago.
The ARB continues to work flawlessly and the diff has never leaked, so I consider that a quality installation of quality parts.

 

[blueyednd]

Installed some City Racer headlights...soooo much brighter!

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