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Old 08-11-2011, 09:56 AM
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sweet truck man. lovin it. keep it up
Old 09-06-2011, 08:52 AM
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Ok, Played with the paint some more, think it's done now. Note the stripes that take away your eyes from seeing the crappy hurried welds at the bob. lol

4.88s are in, Aussie lockers front and rear. High steer is in.
I've taken it out twice now and all I can say is WOW! What a huge difference from stock 4.10s and open diffs!




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Lift and steering

What and how much front lift do you have? And which high steer do you have? Any issues with high steer and small lift clearing the oil pan.
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is that a subaru logo on the grill?
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Wink

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That'll show that Heep! Lol
Old 09-16-2011, 07:56 AM
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That is/was a Subaru emblem on the front. Totally screwed with people. The guy at the emmissions place thought it was a BRAT and started lining me up for a front wheel drive dino. lol It says HILUX now.

The lift is a 3 inch or so, 33s.
The high steer clears fine, I love it. Steering is like butter now. I bought it from Marlin Crawler.

Painted the wheels black, here is is with my daily driver.




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Old 09-16-2011, 08:29 AM
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dude i like your hood, reminds me of the van halen stripes
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you need some cylon lights in the front, if you're gonna reference "gaius baltar" on your truck



then, when people say, "cool, 'kitt' lights!" you can be all like, "no, my truck's a cylon"
Old 09-16-2011, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by 1986yota4x4
dude i like your hood, reminds me of the van halen stripes
^ . . .Hit the nail on the head. I did it on the passenger side of the bed too, but painted over most of it. You can still see the bit on the tail, and the ghost striped show thru the tan when you look close. I used my laser to get the lines straight.

Not too many people will ever get the Baltar reference. lol
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i guess i'm more of a nerd than i thought i was

at any rate, nice rig. the pics are great
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looks cool man, i likie how the sr5 stripes show through
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what model ARB bumper is that?
Old 11-05-2011, 09:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Murphy6790
what model ARB bumper is that?

No idea. I bought an entire truck at a swap meet so I could pull off the bumper and roll bar.
Old 07-13-2012, 10:37 AM
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A short video showing what it's all good for:

'scuse me missing first somehow at my second attempt.

http://s529.photobucket.com/albums/d...kelineHill.mp4
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Nice truck. You've only put a little over 11k miles on it in the 8 years you've owned it? Wow. Most people do that in a year alone.
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. I won't drive it more than 50 miles unless there's a trail at the end of the road. I've wheeled it A LOT, but am gentle with it for the most part. I love my truck, I think it loves me back.
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Originally Posted by Zap
I love my truck, I think it loves me back.
I wish that you could "like" posts on here the way you can on facebook, because I would have just clicked it.
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We may not be able to "like" it cabot, but I'm pretty sure we all still like it anyway .
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One thing I will never stop loving is how my old 1985 Toyota pickup with roughly 120ish horse power has six lugs, and how there are so many much larger trucks and SUVs nowadays with a lot more power that only have five lugs.
Old 12-22-2012, 12:49 PM
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Haven't done much in the way of working on it, but I have been wheeling it. This is a bit old video now, but whatever.
The Jeep before me had failed and fallen off of the little ledge I had to work off of. He wound up pinned under a tree, we had to winch him out.

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