North wind at 25, 8in of rain in 24hr, 40 degree temp difference in 24 hrs.I think you’re a few below the limit there, better head back out!
I’ll take any I can get, limit or not.
What have you done to your Land Cruiser this week? (11 Viewers)
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I’ll take any I can get, limit or not.
Know the feeling except my jack stand fail was slow.
Had the back of my 60 Chevy wagon on stands while replacing the center bearing.
One of the cheap stands gave out and the car slowly started to slide over.
I was in my 20's then and could move faster than now so got out of the way in time but the good stand punched a small hole in the gas tank and about ten gallons of gas ran down the driveway.
Ever since then I leave floor jacks in place and throw tires underneath as well as the use of jack stands.
Glad your story does not include a hospital visit or worse.
FJBen
SILVER Star
I always slide tires under as well as leave a jack in place along with jack stands. Great advice.
I dropped my '73 using a high-lift jack. It landed on it's feet, but caused reasonable carnage to the 4Runner parked next to it. The 40 showed no evidence on its aluminum diamond plate 1/4 covers.
After not doing anything for 6 months I started to reassemble my doors. The new quarter light seals were a pain to get in but done now.
Need to finish my spraying.....
Need to finish my spraying.....
Dang man glad your ok
Enjoying fall as long as I can with the top off.
rkymtnflyfisher
Trout Bum
Dries in October in Montana! What pattern and size? Lucky turd
I had to go through about 15 different dries, different sizes, color, pattern, the fish were killing me.
I finally hooked that beast on a #18ish cripple/emerged/parachute/hybrid something dry fly.
There were at least 5 different mayflies hatching/dying/flying around on the water while I was there. Big #8 sized mayflies all the way down to some tiny trico that went about #22.
I’m feeling like tomorrow or Friday I may be sick.
Took half a day off to get some work done on the truck, and do some chores.
Sanded, prepped, and POR-15'd the rest of the metal parts that go along with the rain gutter and fiberglass top, which my old man and I will hopefully paint in the next few weeks. Drilled out some of the snapped fasterns on amby doors.
Sanded, prepped, and POR-15'd the rest of the metal parts that go along with the rain gutter and fiberglass top, which my old man and I will hopefully paint in the next few weeks. Drilled out some of the snapped fasterns on amby doors.
Arrived this morning! After wheeling last weekend at southern cruiser crawl I decided it was time for some hydro assist!
oregon fj
Serial rescuer of old vehicles
The project is now essentially complete. Waiting on a last firewall grommet, and a bit of cleaning and touchup. Everything works as it should—lights, brakes, horns, gauges, wipers, all of it.
Going to be out of town for a few days next week, will do some more driving to make sure there are no new surprises, and then lay plans to sell it.
Going to be out of town for a few days next week, will do some more driving to make sure there are no new surprises, and then lay plans to sell it.
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Finally took cowboy for his first test drive! I’m my possession at least. Tested all the knobs and switches. The only thing that doesn’t work is the turn signal. It works once or twice, but then nothing the whole drive. I suspect the relay.
I'm a chicken. Those jack stands worry the pee out of me. Mine is on 6x6 wooden blocks. They get in the way but at least I'm not constantly looking at the stands wondering....
Got my Pig exhaust manifold finished. It had a leaky flapper so I cut that pos out and put bolts in with Remflex gaskets I made. I had to retap and helicoil on of the exhaust pipe studs. (Pita)
It’s all clean and ready for my JimC hybrid custom carburetor and recurved dissy
It’s all clean and ready for my JimC hybrid custom carburetor and recurved dissy
Really great guy hooked me up with a great deal getting my seats recovered. 96 BMW front seats and a Bestop Fold and tumble.
rkymtnflyfisher
Trout Bum
What year and vehicle are you putting those BMW seats in? How much taller than stock are they and how are you mounting them?
75’ 40. Previous owner installed the CCOT bestop kit and those came with adapter plates. The plate is pretty broad so you can mount any seat you want really. As for height these seats adjust in height, but were similar in height to the Bestop seats.
rkymtnflyfisher
Trout Bum
I have BMW seats in my 74, from an E36, they sit about 8 inches higher than stock. I built a frame to keep them as low as I could but you can't make up for the fuel tank, my frame sits about 1/2" above the tank. The passenger seat still sits way too high, the drivers seat is ok and I could have dropped it as far as I wanted but I wanted to keep it as close as I could to the p side seat to match.
I spent a lot of time mocking all of it up early on, and I'm still not happy with the height of the p side. It is hard to compensate for the height of the seat base on those seats.
I'll try to dig up some pics.
