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I took a 650 mile trip out to Bentonville this weekend with some friends and the cruiser hit 414k miles. Before leaving, I rotated all 5 tires, and cleaned the contact point where the coil igniter bolts to the inner fender. I had read about some people with 100s having grounding issues causing...

Any automotive paint store can blend up what you’re looking for from it’s paint code. All of my stuff is PPG.

I kind of forgot to update here after the last trip. Anyways the cruiser hasn’t even had any shut off issues since driving through Kansas so I haven’t been able to check for spark issues, but I am fairly certain it is some weird electrical gremlin at this point. Recent trip summary: 2100...

Thanks I appreciate it. I am actually a full time college student. I build and sell swing out kits when I have time and then do odd jobs here and there to fund my trips and whatnot. In regards to painting the engine bay, we kind of did. I would have loved to do it all, but it just wasn't...

It’s amazing how good the cruiser community is. After talking to a friend, he referred me to Justin and Shaun of High Country Cruisers. Great guys with some sick builds in their shop. They graciously gave me the slightly damaged shroud and green hub fan clutch/fan that they had pulled out of...

It appears that fans only last so long. It’s never crossed my mind that I should replace it, but hindsight is always 20/20. En route to the Solid Axle Summit, about 15 miles from Durango, I felt a clunk and saw debris in my mirror. I thought I had run over something in the road or had a center...

Yeah I have no idea. I have never seen one higher than mine but I’m sure there are some out there. The 4.7 V8s have some crazy high numbers on them, but that makes sense with them being as comfortable to drive as they are. Most people don’t have the patience for the 3FE.

By the time I get home from Arkansas today, 410k. Then I’ll be changing the oil, greasing the drive shafts, throwing on the RTT, and heading to NM and CO

Went ahead and ditched the Kendas and ponied up for the new(ish) Yokohama Geolandar MT G003. Pretty sick tire and after driving 300 ish miles yesterday, I realized how loud and rough my Kendas had become. I never really felt like they were loud or rough but these are just so good. What...

With the help of a friend and his 3D printer I now have one locker indicator. I’m currently working on the artwork for basically a switch overlay for this like you would see on a 3x locked cruiser’s dash. I’m going to go ahead and do a front locker indicator as well so I have stuff that matches...

New axle is in. Ended up not having to swap e brake cables. The semi float cable is longer. Just trimmed it down and redid the crimped on ends that hold it into the brackets. After several attempts of bolting things to the axle, I figured out the best way is to secure the upper control arms...

Teaser of the axle. Waiting on some brake lines and then I'll be able to install it. I wanted to use the OEM locker dial to activate the Harrop because I like the look and the safety it offers compared to a rocker switch that could be accidentally bumped to the on position at the wrong time...

Last Saturday, we made the trip out to a rural area south of Ft. Smith, AR and I bought a full float rear axle that supposedly had 180k miles on it out of a '95 Cruiser. It was a little crusty but not bad. $500 done deal. I then started cleaning it up with a wire wheel in order to install the...

Seems like I have been running into setback after setback lately. The sand blaster has been extremely finicky and time consuming to operate. I ended up having to scrape 90% of the bed liner on the yeti cooler swing out. I also had to wire wheel pretty much all of one slider. I haven't even had a...

Whoop whoop fresh parts. It's been feeling like Christmas around here lately. I'm just trying not to look at my bank account. This time from Cruiser Outfitters they hooked me up with a free shirt and some decals too Aside from buying the axle this weekend, I think all I have left to purchase...

Been working on a lot of various random projects lately. The cruiser is about as stripped down as it can be right now. I've gone through 3 stages of 3M buffing compounds and I'm getting ready to wax it, but it's finally nice to see smooth and glassy paint once again. I'm probably in 10-15 hours...

Geeze that's cheap. I'd be pretty livid if I took my cruiser somewhere for something (and paid to have work done) and they tried pulling some crap like that on such a critical component of the vehicle. Finished up the fresh body mounts yesterday. I ended up replacing all 6 of the cab mount...

Yeah they definitely are. My dad purchased his first set a long time ago for his fj62, which my cruiser replaced in like '99 and he's had them on a 40 for awhile as well. I briefly looked at new seats, but that's a lot of work and generally probably won't be as comfortable as the set up I have...

Been cranking on swing out kits over the past several weeks, but today while waiting for some more spindle caps to come in, my new Wet Okole seat covers came in. Decided to go with the charcoal color this time around and opted for the adjustable lumbar in both seats and the two little storage...

And this weekend I got a chance to install all new door seals, my oem hand throttle, and the FZJ80 front swaybar from the LX I pulled. New motor mounts and body mount parts also ready for install The bigger swaybar is 29mm OD vs 24mm, and after just trying to bolt it in, I realized I was out...