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Yeah I really dig your cruiser too! And yes, Will Gentry. He's told me about you and your trucks and his plans to go up there. I'm super jealous of that trip. Looks like the Rockies I've seen, but better. I'll definitely hit you up if I ever find myself up in your neck of the woods! We are...

A week or so ago, with finals and school mostly over, I headed home to do a little bit of prep for a Memorial Weekend trip to the Ozarks. Nothing major, but things that needed to be done. I started by changing the oil, and then I put in new Sylvania Xtravision H4 headlight bulbs...which were a...

Went out to NWA for spring break and managed to not get flown home via a mediflight this year which was a huge plus. Perfect weather made camping very enjoyable except for having to pay $20/night for a spot. Didn't really do much wheeling or picture taking but was nice to get several days away...

Anyways, rear crossmember 2.0 is done. After deciding to place the 2x4 at the bottom, for strength and better receiver location, I needed to fill the gap. I had already notched the 2x4 and bent it back to follow the same contour as the factory one. Kind of thinking back on this, but I could have...

Yeah I could see that. I wrote it like it's a straight into the ground dump, but what I meant was that when I chopped it, it was shooting a little bit onto my frame rail. I cut a 90* in half and welded it on so it angles it straight back and slightly down, but it still has roughly the same angle...

Finally got a chance to make it home this weekend and get several things done. I started with cutting out the factory cross member, but got my plan to replace it with 2x4x1/4" steel didn't work out...yet. I realized I really need about a 2x5 to tuck up under the rear cross member step to support...

Several weeks back, right after finishing up another batch of swing outs and packing to head back to school, I finished up my Hi-Lift mount for my swing out. I also built a rack that mounts to my Yeti Cooler swing out that uses two Yakima Highroller tray racks to hold a couple of bikes. I had...

Yes the new ones will be getting set up with fresh gears and master rebuild kits as I am sure they are due for everything. I am not even sure if the FJ80 front third members are interchangeable with the FZJ80 due to possible different spline counts. The rear doesn't matter regardless since it...

Yeah I will be going with 4.88s once again. I was thinking I would pull them from my current axles, but then again, I could probably get more money out of my axles the way they are set up right now. On a side note, does anyone know what my current FJ80 axles would be worth? Full rebuild on...

Scored big today! I bought locked full floaters, the e brake, beefier front sway bar, and some other goodies. An LX450 was a fresh arrival at a local yard and it happened to be triple locked. Unfortunately someone copped the rear actuator and wiring connector for it, but overall I'm super...

Thanks for the compliments you guys. Jellyfishfiesta, As far as I know it is factory. I believe my cruiser originally had a towing package and maybe it was an upgraded part, but I cannot confirm if they would put different coolers in for a towing package but it does make sense. The electric...

For sure! I'd be like a kid in a candy store there and wouldn't want to miss out on the good local trails if I were too distracted by the park. What would you say is the best time of the year to ride up there? I'd imagine the park is brake rutted beyond belief later in the season.

I haven't done much lately with the cruiser except drive it. The quiet exhaust has been awesome on the several day trips I have taken it on, and the power that has been restored with the cat delete feels like the power I gained when I regeared it. 75 is pretty easy once again and fuel mileage...

I appreciate it! It's always fun to see people's reactions when I tell them or they see that it has over 400k on it. How is the biking up in Alaska? Whistler and Sedona are too of the places I am wanting to visit badly right now. After a crash last spring, I erased any and all plans to get up...

I have a similar popping going on up front on my 80 series. If I turn hard from center I get occasional pops that I can hear and feel with my feet. It has slowly gotten worse over the past year or so. If I turn all the way one way and return to center and then turn that same way again I don't...

Well I have had some rattling in my exhaust since this past summer. It kept getting worse, and I thought it was a rock stuck in the heat shield that wrapped around the catalytic converter but that turned out not to be the case. I had left the cruiser with my dad for several days a couple weeks...

Missed your reply somehow. I'm fairly certain it's 416 based on how it looks. My dad's fj40 he painted is a 1980 which would mean the 464 code, but he thinks he just had the paint mixed up according to dune beige. That or he may have matched it to the inside of the gas cap. The wheels are VHt...

Late in the day last Thursday I went out to the Ouachita National Forest to camp and wheel with some friends. I ended up getting bored of the tight tree trails/gravel roads and saw a road sign that said Hot Springs, AR was 40 miles away. When I went to look up prices for the park I saw that the...

Yeah I agree with that. I'd buy a full floater today if there was one, but even while keeping an eye on local classifieds and parts yards, it could be awhile before a full floater shows up. Not a lot of people willing to ship and I'm not sure I'd want to buy one without seeing it first hand as I...

I've done a few little things on the cruiser lately and found a couple of issues. The rear cargo shelf has always been held on by a bunch of zipties and had a slight wiggle to it. I wanted to fix that and make it as solid as it could so it did not produce any squeaks. I cut out and bent up...