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Last Call Guest on these Group Buy Deal Items from Baja Designs
Bruce 1996 fj80
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chaplinfj60
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na 33 s still drive nice 
chaplinfj60
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got back monday and worked tuesday and unloaded the cruiser and unpacked the camper. cruiser did good. quite fun. i had no idea the ifz is such a good engine. never actually climbed hills and beat on it like i did. the only other engine i have to compare to it is the 3fe and that was a dog. i would build a buggy with this engine if i knew what i knew now. wow.
damage report is as follows. maybe not damage but things that happened. day one a rock hit my rear steel brake line and it punctured the line. came back to came built new line and tried to bleed the brakes for about 45 minutes and never could get it as good as it was before. they work but go to the floor damn near.
day 2 climbing a hill i looked in the rear view mirror and saw a lot of smoked. stopped and popped the hood and atf was spraying everywhere. complete covered the entire engine bay with red oil. so much oil that it even leaked onto the hood through the window squirter nozzles that go through the hood. turns out one of one of the trans cooler lines was bouncing around just enough that it got cut by the harmonic balancer and sprayed fluid up into the fan and that is how you cover the entire engine bay. hahahaha
day 3 heading up a trail called log jam a level 4 trail i got wedged into some rocks and after winching out my steering made a god awful noise when turning to the left. turns out i bent the steering rod into a big U and was into the harmonic balancer again. had to lay in 40 degree water to remove the steering rod. and spent the better part of an hour straiting this thing out and took apart the high lift jack to brace the rod again.
good times for sure.
love the cruiser it a blast.
damage report is as follows. maybe not damage but things that happened. day one a rock hit my rear steel brake line and it punctured the line. came back to came built new line and tried to bleed the brakes for about 45 minutes and never could get it as good as it was before. they work but go to the floor damn near.
day 2 climbing a hill i looked in the rear view mirror and saw a lot of smoked. stopped and popped the hood and atf was spraying everywhere. complete covered the entire engine bay with red oil. so much oil that it even leaked onto the hood through the window squirter nozzles that go through the hood. turns out one of one of the trans cooler lines was bouncing around just enough that it got cut by the harmonic balancer and sprayed fluid up into the fan and that is how you cover the entire engine bay. hahahaha
day 3 heading up a trail called log jam a level 4 trail i got wedged into some rocks and after winching out my steering made a god awful noise when turning to the left. turns out i bent the steering rod into a big U and was into the harmonic balancer again. had to lay in 40 degree water to remove the steering rod. and spent the better part of an hour straiting this thing out and took apart the high lift jack to brace the rod again.
good times for sure.
love the cruiser it a blast.
chaplinfj60
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started working on a rear bumper this weekend. yay
