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Well, today is my birthday, and the girls apparently have changed from drawing racecars on my cards to drawing trucks... my parents got me a nice Igloo BMX injected cooler, which should keep things colder a lot longer than the old coolers I've been using over the years. Among other things...

In 2WD you shouldn't notice it. Most recommend having manual hubs so you can totally unlock when not using it.

yeah, that seems like a good plan. Just lift the body right off and swap it over. All you really will need to do is change some wiring and ECU out of the smashed one, more than likely. Also would give you a good opportunity to clean up/paint the frame. I highly doubt there is frame damage, Once...

Continuing on with the sleep platform. So on the back section, decided to use the factory seatbelt lower mounts as the "tie downs" for the assembly, which works out well and means no new holes to drill... And modified a couple of the factory tie-downs (taken off the Blue Raider) for the...

I ended up rebuilding the stock 6G72 that came out of a badly-running, rusty Raider I picked up for parts (as well as its manual transmission). To be prefectly honest, with the 6G72 rebuilt I feel it has more than sufficient power for this truck. It's not a rocket ship, but certainly gets up and...

With a "winter storm" going on outside, got the heater fired up in the garage for the first time this year, only to find my propane tank only had enough left for about 15 minutes of warm up lol...mostly because I had to do some wiring on the rally car and wiring with cold fingers sucks...

Was a bit bored today so decided to do some woodworking on something I've been thinking about for a while. So for those of you who actually know me, I love the outdoors but don't particularly love actually camping. For the rally racing and stuff like that, there's usually a hotel nearby so I'll...

Really nice weather today, so figured I'd so some additional work on the rack, basically two little projects. First, wanted to set up some side flood-lighting because I find side and rear-quarter lighting comes in pretty useful in a numbe of situations. I had some cheap ebay LED amber/yellow...

How long ago was that? seems that everything I've read in the last year or two people are having issues with them unless you are actually in Australia

Took this off a junkyard car recently and took it apart, wire-wheeled it, and repainted it. It's the OEM seat suspension base that came on off-road package Monteros/Raiders/Pajeros. Anyhow, the adjuster works fine, the rubber bump stops are in good shape, and overall fully functional. There is a...

DIdn't have much to do today, so headed down to Fredricksburg to the pick-and-pull yard, since their online car list not only showed a pair of Porsche 944s and a Sequoia, but also a 1987 2-door Montero. So trucked 45 miles south and layered up to hike around this huge yard... And found the...

(moderators: this isn't a for-sale post, and I am not a vendor nor do I have any financial interest in this. However, I am speaking to a vendor about getting these parts made again, for the benefit of the community, so it will probably get more traffic here. If not ok, feel free to move). So we...

Nothing much exciting, but in the interest of documenting everything: 1. For no apparent reason decided to see if my traction boards would fit in the roof storage box. The answer is yes, they do. Almost perfectly. So they may live there (though I guess I won't get that "suburban overland cred"...

Nice, I appreciate all the pics. Always like to scour peoples' builds for good ideas :)

Wind noise was much improved when I took it for a drive today up to about 60-65mph. I mean, the big mirrors make noise but the rack now produces no more noise than any other roof rack I've had on other cars (though all the other cars had more roof insulation than this thing). So yeah, the...

Did some reconfiguring and finishing of the rack today. In the prior setup, I was getting some pretty annoying resonance off of the front end (and possibly the round bars) that was really intolerable. I can deal with general wind noise (it's expected in a truck like this) but this resonance was...

Spent a good chunk of the day today rebuilding the e30's LSD with upgraded clutch plates, but while I was doing that DHL showed up (for the second time) with the large mirrors I ordered. These are the so-called "JDM large mirrors" or whatever, but I ordered them from South America where they're...

Got the lighting all set up and wired today. Decided to put the switches on the panel to the right of the steering column, since I'm getting low on switch space lol. The second one isn't hooked to anything yet, but it powers the second outlet on the roof for whatever I put up there in the...

UPS rolled up today and delivered the ebay light bar I picked up. I know, people will say "oh get the high-end ones" etc etc....but for ORV speeds, in my opinion who cares (I don't). These cheap ones provide plenty of low-speed fill for my uses (the stage rally car has a long-range Hella...

So for roof lighting, I was having trouble figuring out a good way to get the wires down from the roof. I really don't want to run them in door seals or outside, just seems a bit ghetto. So I bit the bullet and drilled some holes in the roof and put a couple plug-style connectors there. Why...