 | 2F swapped in with the 4 speed tranny and adapted to the 3 speed tcase for
approximately 18% increase in crawl ratio. |
|
Saginaw Power Steering (Oct 99) |
|
83 Toy mini truck knuckle out swap for the disk
brakes.. |
|
Outback Suspension "Monster" steering
linkage, using high quality 3/4" heim rod ends and tig welded
chromemoly tubing. |
|
Rear disks using GM metric calipers, custom
laser cut brackets and GM rotors opened up to fit over the axle centering
boss. |
| Non Usa 2 barrel carb. |
| Jacobs ignition system and Non Usa distributor. |
| Custom built (lengthened) front driveshaft with saginaw style u-joints and
8" travel slip joint. |
| Shackle Reversal using a 2nd generation kit. |
| Greaseable Anti-Inversion shackles and matching frame pins. |
| U-bolt flip kits from 4Plus via Man a Fre. |
| 4" Skyjacker lift, with 4 Soft Rider springs (minus the 2nd leaf from
the bottom of each pack) and Rancho 5012 shocks. |
| Ford F250 shock towers bolted on in the front to allow longer shocks. |
| Lock Right locking differential in the rear. |
| ARB Air Locker in the front pressurized by the on-board air system. |
| Onboard air using a York 210 compressor, 2.5 gallon tank and custom bracket. |
| 220 Amp Mean Green Chevy CS case Alternator with custom pulley to align
with York compressor. |
| Dual Optima Red Top Batteries with heavy duty cables and connectors,
linked via a heavy duty remote solenoid and manual cockpit switch. |
| New OEM taillights and rear reflector assemblies, which were moved up out
of harms way and cut into the rear quarter panel near the rear doors. |
| Full "family style" roll cage assembled by me from a kit that was bent up
on a computer controlled mandrel bender by Alston Race Cars, north of Chicago. |
| New factory Toyota windshield hinge mount mirrors (stock ones mounted to
door hinges). |
| New emblems, hood ornament, side reflectors and lamp lens all around. |
| New heavy duty front "shorty" bumper from Specter, which I later
cut and modified to accept a Warn 8274-50 mounting plate that I fabbed up. |
| New Warn 8274-50 winch. |
| Replaced rear transfer case seal, new emergency brake shoes. |
| Heavily modified rear quarter panels, cut front fenders and welded to
aprons to reduce the
trail damage. |
| Rear Axle was swapped from a 71' vintage FJ40 after setting up the rear
disks. |
| Replaced 4speed with an SM420 in August of 2001 using
these parts |
| Flipped rear springs around which lengthened the wheelbase and improved
the departure angle. |
| Repainted with a rattle cans. |
| New 38 x 12.5 x 15 TSL's and MRT Beadlocks |
| Replaced the last broken birf with Bobby Longs
Super Birfields |
| TBI Fuel Injection using a Howell kit and a custom adapter. |
| Spring over with Rancho 44044's on the front, All Pro spring perches in
the rear, and Mopar perches in front. |
| Cut off the old rock catcher shackle reversal and incorporated the front
spring bushing mounts into the far end of the frame rails to lengthen the
wheelbase. Rotated the knuckles 20 degrees in the process. |
| Cut the tub off at the door opening and replaced with lots of tube. Sold
my perfectly good Alston cage. Saved a bunch of weight with this mod! |
| Fabbed up a bigger better skid plate with more coverage and clearance.
|
| Lost the emergency brake for clearance and added line locks. |
| Added a
westtexasoffroad hydro assist setup! Thanks Matt and Lisa. |
