Looks great! Hopefully I will see you on the trails. You should check out Cascade Cruisers for some runs: www.cascadecruisers.com

 

will do I think I have an account there, will see if I can log in

no turning back now

got all 4 plates cut and most of the holes drilled. Got one side welded u and of course ran out of wire.
raised it up about 3" to clear the receiver. Need to trim the bottom plates a little to clear the rim

 

Added a 1.25" spacer to the rear, it helped even it out a little. will see how this works over the next few months.


got the raised mount on the spare tire carrier back together.



and i did a clearance check, looks like it will still fit after i rework my roof rack

 

Nice work on the spare tire carrier, it looks really good! The rear spacers look like they made a big difference, looks like it's sits level to me, looks great, I like the good, bad ugly sticker on the back!

 

As usual, love the sticker, you find some great ones. Truck looks great and more level so hopefully the spacers work well for you.

Heh, just saw rustED's post. What he said.

 

Looks awesome Rob! I love the rear shot. Sticker is cool too. Might have to get one of those as well.

 

Thanks Ed, appreciate it. The carrier was a fun project.
Thanks Han! I had good luck with a spacer lift on my old 05 Tacoma. I may convert to leafs down the road
Thanks Don. Ordered some shock adapters to use my old Bilsteins. Brain cramped that the rear shocks used the pin style mount on top...than road test!

I think this is the placed I bought the sticker from
http://desertdogdecals.com/good-bad-ugly-decal

or this guy http://www.thatstickerguy.com/good-bad-ugly.html

I checked my online order history and I have bought stuff from both of them.

 

Cool. I think I may have to get one of those stickers.

Where did you get the 1.5" spacers from? FJ80 spring spacers?

 

Don- they were actually 1.25" spacers for a 4Runner, they fit the FJ springs with out any issues.
$41.65 on Amazon


I had good luck with Daystar spacers on my old 05 Tacoma, they leveled the front and no issues for the 4 years I owned the truck

 

Got halfway through swapping out thirds so I could throw in 5.29's

 

Woohoo!!!!

 

Didn't have as much time as I wanted to work on Project Recycle today but I got the old 5.29 third pulled from the Trekker rear axle. It was good to see it was still in great shape. Not too bad since when I installed the Aussie 7 or 8 years ago I had no clue what I was doing other than taking a look at some of Zuk's write ups on gearinstalls.com

The third when in with out a hitch with the exception of me being thwarted by the 94 flange needing 10mm holes. I could have sworn I had a triple drilled flange but nope. So ordered some 10mm bits off Amazon so I'll just drill the flange on my next day off.

And since I am a grumpy old man I continued the grumpy sticker tradition on my project cars. I am pretty sure I had one going back to my baja bug days in high school

Gotta be good for a few horsepower

also had to order some different rear shocks...thought I could use the old shocks from the Trekker using an eyelet to pin style converter but the lower mount on the 94 is a larger diameter than the shocks I was gonna use. So I'll throw those in the parts stash in case I blow a front shock.

 

Looking good man and the stickers are awesome from another grumpy ole man. But my grandson digs me so I'm good with it haha

 

Awesome build. I'll definitely be referring back to your project over the next year of my build.

 

LoL thanks Tony. My grandkids seems to feel the same about me
the 10mm drill bit i rdered got in friday with the shocks so I was able to rototae the driveshaft a few degrees and drilled the flange myself.
Rear shocks finally arrived too so got everything buttoned up last night. Drove it, 1st impressions is that I really want to convert to rear leaf springs sooner than later. The tall rear coils are allow for some leaning in the corners.
Going to pull a couple of front leafs up front to see how much that lowers it and pull the coil spacers to even it out.
Drove it about 30 miles between yesterday and today, took a little while getting use too but it should be very capable.

*With the 35's and 5.29's the speedo seems dead on. *Decent power. *I will confirm with my GPS how accurate the speedo is.

 

I can tell you that 5.29s and 35s are about 5mph off in my truck with an r150. Just sayin.

 

A340E. I'll check with GPS. In the 81 with the L-52 it was dead on
this thing may see an R150 down the road though...

 

Robb are those Alcoa wheels? There used to be a company named Bart that did the Alcoa knock off but in steel. I ran then on my 85.

 

Hopefully the toque converter unlocking should help even out the difference. I don't miss my A340.

 

Tony I wish these were Alcoas. These are Pro Comps I got for a killer deal from 4 Wheel Parts
So far the auto and torque converter seem happy

posting this for future reference found in a thread on master cylinders on Pirate