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Slander said:
Yea it's weird, but I always toss 2qts in it and it vents for a while then stops, maybe its not quite a 1/2qt coming out, but it goes for a while. The leftys just a gear drive case and the fluid specs are the same, and it shares fluid with crawl box. I have an inchworm adapter for the crawl box to trans and it looks like the bottom one, and yea that's an oil passage for the fluid that comes out that shifter hole ontop, either way I still don't buy the tank theorey.:laughing:
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Thats basically what my buddy was saying. I just don't see how it couldn't add fluid capacity if there is a pass through hole. :confused:

But, it donest really matter at this point.
 
Built a simple roof rack for rubicon. I'd still like to add something to make it easier to hook straps to, but I think this will work for now. Going to use a roof bag we have, it's nice to not have all your bedding and whatnot dusty as shit.

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My 10 year old comes out and looks at the roof rack "dude, you know thays going to get smashed when we roll it?" :lmao:

Ya, I know buddy, that's why I made it sure simple. Guess he knows me too well :laughing:
 
I bought these mirrors at an oriellys in hurricane Utah and had low expectations. I think they were $20 ea. Turns out they're actually pretty nice and have worked well

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picked up this rough country fridge freezer for this trip. It's 12v/120v like all the others, but also has its own battery. We've been using it pretty much constant for a month and really like it. Only $500 too. Built a mount for it. Just need to bolt it down and maybe add a little rubber. Also, theres not an extra 1/2" for this cooler to fit in here with the fuel cell and tail gate, meant to be i guess.

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FleshEater said:
Man I hate living in Pennsylvania so much. Street legal?! :smokin:
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Fuck, I don't know, seems like both here and where I was at in CA, if you make an effort to have mirrors, blinkers, ect, they leave you alone. Guys used to run removable mud flaps back home which helped also.


Also, the good old ep35 relay worked perfectly.
 
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YotaAtieToo said:
Fuck, she's all legal and shit :flipoff2:

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Fuck, I don't know, seems like both here and where I was at in CA, if you make an effort to have mirrors, blinkers, ect, they leave you alone. Guys used to run removable mud flaps back home which helped also.
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Your tires would need covered to pass inspection here. Not sure if the body damage would pass or not. I haven’t tried the Geo since it’s all smashed up now.

I knew a guy for my inspections which was the only way I got it passed anyways. My horn also doesn’t work.

Only option is to try and get by with an antique plate.
 
FleshEater said:
Your tires would need covered to pass inspection here. Not sure if the body damage would pass or not. I haven’t tried the Geo since it’s all smashed up now.

I knew a guy for my inspections which was the only way I got it passed anyways. My horn also doesn’t work.

Only option is to try and get by with an antique plate.
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And people talk shit on ca :laughing::flipoff2:

My buddy drove a 1 ton toyota on 44x18.5s daily for like a year. Literally the entire tire was outside the fender and all he had was some small mud flaps :laughing:
 
Threw a quick highlift mount in. I kinda hate these things, but they can be useful. Might be crooked, but probably just an optical illusion :flipoff2:

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I just used some 1/2" ID tube, full thread bolts, locked them in with nylocks, then a wing nut on the outside.

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I kinda want to find some of these in the right thread to get them tighter without a tool eventually.
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I might be behind the curve here, but I learn that a 22r/e uses a fairly common oil filter mount. Vatozone was out of the factory toyota oil filter, a quick Google search showed guys using the Motorcraft FL-1A filter since it's like 3x's the size and available everywhere. "The more you know......" :flipoff2:

also does ford parts on a toyota make it more or less :rainbow:?

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So bad news, but also glad I found it now.......

Front gears and or bearings are fucked. Was changing the pinion flange and the pinion has like a half turn of play, plus like an inch of in and out play :homer:


Luckily the kid I'm selling these axles to happens to have a pair of old 9.5" axles. Pulled the rear cover and it was rusted solid. Front has some rust on the teeth, but hopefully will clean up. It's a coarse spline pinion, but 30 spline side gears? I think I'm just going to clean the teeth, weld it and hope for the best.
 
Never mind, guess I'm just retarded. Gears and bearings look fine.

I've never had an 8" diff have the pinion fall in 1"+ I'm guessing there is just more room in the 9.5"

Oh well, glad I pulled it apart. This axle is a breeze to work on compared to most toyotas.

Slip off rotors means you pull the birf clips and the spindle bolts, then everything comes off like a unit bearing.

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The diamond axle has 2 seals per side and you don't end up with birf soup.

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Almost too dry in there :laughing:
 
dang gears bummer.....

roof rack. if you weld a couple scraps of chain to the bar you will have some spots to tie off to and not slide back and forth.
 
How's my set up pattern? :flipoff2:

Should hopefully get off the trail, or at least closer to the trailer :lmao:

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Old ass cruiser pattern is just off of the commone 85-95 pattern.
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Pos square garbage driveline, but oh well. Fixed the current front to use as a spare and made a new front. Either will work in either end despite a 10" length difference.
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YotaAtieToo said:
How's my set up pattern? :flipoff2:

Should hopefully get off the trail, or at least closer to the trailer :lmao:

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Old ass cruiser pattern is just off of the commone 85-95 pattern.
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Pos square garbage driveline, but oh well. Fixed the current front to use as a spare and made a new front. Either will work in either end despite a 10" length difference.
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As my old man told me when I was a kid about pitting on machined parts (in that case it was wagon wheel bearings that tight-ass broke farmer in the early 90s wouldn't replace, I was questioning him why he put it back together that way): "The pits will help hold oil, provide more cushion". Thanks old man, good thing I knew it was a dead-inside-from-working-on-junk-too-long old mechanic joke:lmao:
 
IowaOffRoad said:
As my old man told me when I was a kid about pitting on machined parts (in that case it was wagon wheel bearings that tight-ass broke farmer in the early 90s wouldn't replace, I was questioning him why he put it back together that way): "The pits will help hold oil, provide more cushion". Thanks old man, good thing I knew it was a dead-inside-from-working-on-junk-too-long old mechanic joke:lmao:
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It almost kinda makes sense in a way :laughing:

I'm actually curious how long it would last driving down the road. Would it eat it's self in 1 mile, 100, 1000, 10000?
 
If you decide to try this experiment...
Get yourself one of
THESE
and drill and tap a drain plug for a pipe-to-compression fitting. If you need an extension wire I'll mail you one with male/female ends. I'd like to know the oil sump temps when you try it... bring a kid with a pad and pen to write down speed and temp every few miles... for science of course.:grinpimp:
 
IowaOffRoad said:
If you decide to try this experiment...
Get yourself one of
THESE
and drill and tap a drain plug for a pipe-to-compression fitting. If you need an extension wire I'll mail you one with male/female ends. I'd like to know the oil sump temps when you try it... bring a kid with a pad and pen to write down speed and temp every few miles... for science of course.:grinpimp:
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Ain't no body got tyme for dat
 
Got my sick $150 stereo installed :laughing:

Picked a $50 double din off Amazon that came with a reverse camera and had decent reviews. Then added some similar value tube clamp speakers. It's not bad sound quality for what it is, and reverse cam will be nice since this thing isn't easy to see behind you. I just wired it to a switch since I didn't hook up the reverse sensor on the trans. I did mess up and wired the light to key on, :laughing: But thays an easy fix.

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I'm hoping my custom angle will help to actually be able to see the damn screen with how low toyota put them.

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I'm slightly freaking out I'm forgetting something major, we leave this weekend and I still need to get the new to me truck and camper sorted. :laughing:
 
Officially off the rubicon :smokin:

Drove this thing from the top side, 2.5 hours in the highway, over 7k feet pass, then back up icehouse, wheeled the whole trail and 2 hours back to minden with out issue :laughing:

Since we had friends cancel, it was only us and a bone stock 4 seat rzr. So i was a little nervous about breaking or needing a tug. Guy had never had it in anything like that before, but did great. Neither of us needed a pull, push, Jack anything.
 
So after wheelin these 2 trails, I couldn't be more happy with the boat sides. In my 4runner, I would have banged my sliders many many times. With the boat side, it has to be a huge ass rock to slam them. I think I hit once at con and once at Fordyce. I think both were screwing around knowing I'd hit.
 
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