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I considered not running an intercooler, but with the amount of warm slow speed all-day offroad driving I do throughout the summer, I'd rather have some form of charge air cooling in it and just try and keep any and all engine-related temps as low as I can reasonably muster. Also, without the...

And some pics installed at the end of this post. They increased offset/backspacing from the previous wheels has bumped up return-to-center a bit, which is nice, and it drives especially well considering they're 37x12.5 with no steering stabilizer. But now I do rub my fabricated lower control...

And another recent update, is a change in wheels! I wanted to suck the tires inboard a little bit, but most importantly I wanted to go away from the splined lug nuts that were required with the narrow lug pockets on the previous spoked alloy wheels.. so it's nice to be able to run factory 3rd...

In other non-winch news, several times now I've crawled down a rock face or other ledge that is steep enough to make me PUKE oil out of the factory 24V front breather, and down onto the ground. This is clearly no good, but on a random Facebook for sale ad I saw a 24V guy that had bolted up the...

And an option for anchoring the winch... shackle sucked into the fairlead.... The license plate ziptied to the grill is very much a temporary mount. I don't want to cover either bumper opening, because I need access the clutch lever on the driver side and the 2" receiver on the passenger...

And the winch starts getting installed for good!....

While I was at it, I wanted to add some front recovery point.. I was struggling to justify copying the gussetted bracketry I welded onto my friend's 2nd gen passenger frame horn (to receive a 3/4" shackle).. then I realized that I just welded this big honking 3/8" plate, and it's about the...

I then started cutting as small of a fairlead hole as I thought was reasonable, in the factory front bumper. I tested jiggling the bumper up/down with all the bolts loose, and at no point does the opening come close to overlapping with the fairlead entry angle. Another thing I wanted to...

Finally have a winch update! Holy cow, long time coming.. but there is finally a 12K winch on the front of Sally! I bought a steel cable one on a flash Amazon sale for ~$700cdn ($550usd), although I really wanted a synthetic rope one on the front.. partially for weight, but also so I could do...

Thank you!! ? Awesome, and thanks! That is one cleeeeean Sport.. look how fresh even the cab rocker pinch weld seams are! Beautiful ?

I'm FINALLY just now getting around to the winch install haha. Made a temporary intercooler-delete "test pipe" so that the truck stay driveable while I figure out the winch plate and reinforcement. Going to get some metal today, and hoping to make reasonable progress on it this week! Will...

I may have missed it, but what year is yours? If it's a 2000-2002, then the updated 4th gen tie rod bolts right on.. when they swapped the Dana 60 to the 2-piston calipers and slip-on rotors for MY2000 they changed the knuckle a bit too, and the 4th-gen tie rod is the correct stud taper and...

The synthetic-rope winch I got via helping out a shop, and they had it in stock.. so it was in exchange for labour. The steel-rope one I got on an Amazon sale. For the front I was 100% set on synthetic rope so that I could do a compact Hawse fairlead near-flush with the factory bumper, and...

Oh man.. life's been crazy busy so no winch progress updates yet. I did however receive the front winch too (synthetic line), and the steel one will be going in the rear under the bed. Hoping to maybe start mocking up and cutting/welded some stuff in August. I absolutely want to have the...

I've also been recovering this truck and others with the same 2-3 straps for a couple years now.. and decided it's time to invest in a kinetic yanker rope. This brand was reasonably priced on Amazon without being 'too cheap'.. compared to other stuff that was twice the price. It's a 1" rope...

And this past weekend, finally went on the first camping expedition of this year (embarassing to admit!!)... took a 3 day weekend and drove about 4.5hrs of pavement, and anothing 1.5hrs of FSR, to get to a sweet lakeside camping spot. With the FSR drives in/out of the lake, plus some exploring...

And some more afternoon wheeling, back to that very local spot just outside of the city, but on a clear day so I could actually see the view from the lookout!

Next up.. since with this new front axle build/swap and the Thuren joints, I upsized my hardware to just big grade-8 bolts everywhere, but this meant that I lost the ability to use the eccentric-cam washers on the lower control arm mounts to the axle, so I lost the ability to adjust caster...

I've been wanting to wrap up the last of the sound insulation blankets... the ATP the turbo+exhaust manifold blanket. I ran into a few issues, which are most likely caused by my own setup and not necessarily an issue with the ATP blanket design. I have a Steed Speed exhaust manifold (it's...

One more step towards Sally becoming full-on tractor equipment, a Hi-Lift jack. We used my friend's Hi-Lift extensively to get him un-high-centered off a big set of boulders, and we could have used another one to do both sides at the same time, or one as a winch to hsimmy him sideways off a...