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Went for a drive to the DMV to pick up my new Colorado plates (woohoo!) and everything decided to work again. I swear she is such a prissy girl lol. Popped the plates on and installed and polished the new headlights I grabbed from the LKQ yard. Used my go to 3M 39175 heavy duty headlight...

Went an groped the boot. Honestly I can't tell haha.. Judging by the amount of grease that was expelled and how much should normally be in there, I'm guessing I've got about half left. This is definitely a short term fix. I'll be redoing the boots in the next couple months. Well, as I was...

Hmmm that's a good point. I did not know that. Judging by the shoddy work also performed by the shop I'm guessing not oem. I'll have to check on that feeling of grease.

Cleaned up the CV boot of the grease that had spewed out and was greeted by this tiny little slice... Very annoying since I just had my CVs rebooted several months ago. Considering how small it was and that I didn't lose all too much grease, I figured it would have been very unlikely that dust...

Been in a real lazy spell lately...anyways, took the literal 5 minutes needed to install the new lower radiator flan shroud and working dimmer switch to the dash. Nice to be able to see the dash at night again haha! And while I have not had any overheating issues, having the shroud properly in...

Looking solid! ? How do you like those headlights so far?

Great stuff! I'm jealous! I really need to find myself back into a gen 1 again. Brakes weren't great on my gen 1 either, even after good pads and shoes. I didn't get around to it, but maybe look into using gen 2 brake parts. It's a pretty easy swap and documented pretty well on the wire...

Glad to heard that, I'm stoked to try it out!!

Not much going on in Monteroland lately, but I did make a trip to the local pick your part and scored big time! I wasn't expecting much since the truck had been in the yard for over a month already, but I got some really clean 01-02 headlights, the whole fixed antenna base (I was a dumb dumb...

Great to hear, I'm loving ours so far! Seems to burn a little oil, but coming from a couple of mitsubishis and a turbo mazda I'm not sweating at all haha. I actually was considering both Utah and Colorado as well! Ultimately it boiled down to 1) a lot of family has been moving to Colorado...

Very busy last 2 weeks! Blacked out the wifey-mobile, per request. Paid a shop to install new OEM lower ball joints for me since I didn't have the time. Buy once cry once friends. My proforged units lasted all of 2,000 miles. And a ******** ton of packing...interrupted here and there by...

Man...bummer about that fender and the mushed frame horns.. As Chriscosta416 said, easiest bet would be to weld new frame horns on. I had to do that for mine too, except I ended up just going a full custom route instead of making them ready for bolt on products again. Loving those beefy...

Tires probably made it worse, but the gen 1 on-center steering is definitely...vague. I think in my old gen 1 it had close to an inch of travel left/right of center before it would actually respond. Iirc, once off-center, the steering was fairly responsive.

Took a break from work in the garage to go buy a new wifey-mobile. We settled on a 2011 Touareg VR6 Lux. Private party sale and we got it for a steal. So far I'm actually really impressed with this thing. It's nice!! We got it 3-4k below the average market price due to a dent in the quarter...

Thanks for the kind words! ? Finished adding those supports to the steps and painted everything up in rustoleum bedliner. Very happy with how they turned out, and the reinforcements I added definitely seemed to strengthen them up overall. Both the steps together weight 45lbs. Not much more...

Back to the strong steps today. Phase 2, driver side. Welded the arms on, fully welded up the seams, added gussets to the arms, and a top plate. It got a little bit late on me and I like to be considerate of my neighbors, so didn't quite get to finish. I want to add 3 perpendicular pieces...

Glad to see my gen 1 helped out with that tire decision! I love my gen 3, but I have regretted selling the gen 1 every day lol... Odd issue with the no spark at all...hopefully it's something simple!

Didn't feel like working on the step for the driver side today, so decided to knock out the trans bash plate instead. Like the oil pan plate, I used 1/8" steel with some reinforcements. Because this new plate will cover a cat I also decided to drill some holes for ventilation. Not too...

Alright, more on the "sliders". I'm gonna stop calling them that. I've been deceived haha...Oh well, I paid so little money I'm really not mad and honestly I probably won't ever actually use a super burly slider for what it's made for. After working on these all day, I've decided they are...

Exchanged all the trans fluid today. Fluid was still pretty clear (as to be expected), but there was a tiny bit of water that came out, so glad I decided to change it out. Aisin sp3. Also my next attempt at some sliders arrived in the mail! After a quick mock-up, they appear like they will...