Jakes1994 FZJ80 (BIG ORANGE)

[Warlord6]

Guess Ill post up my build thread here. There's a lot of great vehicles on this site so hope this one doesn't disappoint. I bought this vehicle in January of this year. I was wheeling a 2003 LTD V8 4Runner with 35's, ARB's, armor, 4.88's, etc... It was a great vehicle but the family got bigger and I needed more room. My wife sent a Craigslist posting to my phone one day while I was at work and I instantly fell in love with a Big Orange 1994 FZJ80! It already had a J lift, 4x4Labs rear, Slee short bus front, Aussie locked rear, and some 35" rubber. The point of this build is to create an Expo vehicle with some rock crawler abilities. 60% Expo and 40% crawler. Fair warning, a lot of this build is not done by myself. Not because I can't, but because I left town for a year not 3 months after buying it, and I want it mostly complete when I get back. I did everything on my 4Runner build and knew that truck inside and out. It will take me a little longer to learn this one.

As of 01/25/2013

 

[Warlord6]

06March2014

 

[Warlord6]

Current mods
CDL button
OME J lift
OME Long travel resi's on all four corners
Short bus front
4x4Labs rear with dual swing out
Custom sliders
Head unit, speakers, BlueTooth
Optima yellow top
Ballistic battery box
TG diff armor
TG HD steering kit
Flowmaster 40
5.29 Nitro R&P
ARB front and rear
37" MTR's
Smittybuilt 10K comp winch (Synthetic)
Blue Seas fuse block
150 Amp quick disconnect
Nitro chromoly rear shafts
Part time kit with Aisin hubs
IPOR belly armor
Marlin Tcase crawler gear set
LED light bar
LED rear light
Sleeved HD rear lower links

 

[Warlord6]

Wish list:
Bead locks
Exo cage
Etc...

 

[Warlord6]

added the new head unit and speakers.

Kenwood Excelon
Alpine SPS-410 x 2 (rear doors)
Alpine SPS-610 x 2 (front doors)

Hushmat on all four doors

http://toyotaoff-road.com/editpost.php?p=152087&do=editpost

 

[Warlord6]

New battery box to keep new Optima from moving around all over the place like the previous owners had!

Installed.

http://toyotaoff-road.com/editpost.php?p=152555&do=editpost

 

[Warlord6]

out with the old, in with the new!

 

[Warlord6]

New HD steering!

Got new steering installed

 

[Warlord6]

Working on rub rails for sliders.

 

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[Warlord6]

New Flowmaster with high clearance tail

 

[Warlord6]

Just playing around the house.

 

[Warlord6]

Got to do a little wheeling one weekend


http://youtu.be/J4RKNAJmeYE

http://youtu.be/-641NM4-hmM

http://youtu.be/-fv6IfcESv8

it was a little slick!
http://youtu.be/rnAeD2aLWk4

 

[grnhornetcustoms]

I like that color. Very nice. There is a OD or olive colored one in my neighborhood with flat paint that is a head turner also. Hard to beat the looks of that body style.

 

[Warlord6]

Field expedient de-flare

After having a rock remove one for me and do this to the driver side rear