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Otacon posted:I bought my TJ front fenders used for $30, and spent a few hours with a rented angle-grinder to trim away the sheet metal. Are you a DIY, fabrication-friendly Jeeper? That would be me! I even own an angle grinder. Did you just take the flares off and cut where they used to cover? Any photos? Edit: New page bonus filthy interior pic: 
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Bojanglesworth posted:That would be me! I even own an angle grinder. Did you just take the flares off and cut where they used to cover? Any photos? I have a few pictures: However, there are some differences between your 97+ Cherokee and my 95, most notably that you have to worry about your washer-fluid tank when cutting into your passenger-side front wheel-well.     I stuck the flare onto the body using some duct-tape, and traced underneath it with a Sharpie. I marked and drilled the holes, and widened the ones in the flare before attaching them with nuts and bolts. Not a bad job at all, and even passed NJ inspection 
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Aug 23, 2010 23:56
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It took a while, but I finally realized that I can buy an entire truck for a fraction of the cost of just the most recent repair on the dodge... New to me Toyota lurking behind the Jeep. Click here for the full 720x540 image. Best purchase EVER... I love this thing, It's a rusty heap of fury. Mods so far - 33in Swampers, power steering conversion. Thats it. Next up, welded rear diff, and aussie locker in the front. I'ts much funner to bounce off obstacles rather than just blow up on them  Click here for the full 720x540 image. A very stuck Jeep.
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Aug 24, 2010 00:34
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Otacon posted:I have a few pictures: However, there are some differences between your 97+ Cherokee and my 95, most notably that you have to worry about your washer-fluid tank when cutting into your passenger-side front wheel-well. Nice, I like it! My fenders are pretty destoryed anyway, I may have to try that out. I think my dad actually has some air powered tin snips that would probably cut that fender like butter.
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Aug 24, 2010 01:25
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Ozmiander posted:
Welcome to the fullsize Jeep club. Early 80s, 360, TF727? What transfer case?
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Aug 24, 2010 03:04
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SNiPER_Magnum posted:Welcome to the fullsize Jeep club. Early 80s, 360, TF727? What transfer case? 360/727/np229(?)/d44/amc20 It's actually my second one, but i ended up selling it before i even got it dirty.
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Aug 24, 2010 06:33
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Aug 24, 2010 16:37
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  ^^ ouch.     ^^ XJ got stuck, then when I started winching him it just sunk my truck to the frame in mud.  ^^ 34" tires below my brother's boot tread..  The ground was so wet where the XJ got buried that using a hi-lift without a board or something as a base lead to us just squeezing water out of the dirt
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Aug 24, 2010 16:42
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apatite posted:
drat that thing is burly. I like it.
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Aug 24, 2010 19:35
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Apatite, those pictures are the epitome of why I want to buy a Toyota 4x4 and start wheeling.
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Aug 24, 2010 19:47
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Picked up some matching rims and tires today for dirt cheap. Also ordered fender flares and tail lights that arent held together by packing tape. 
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Aug 24, 2010 23:39
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I'm out of work currently and was going to drive up to the Kosciuscko range today, maybe climb a mountain, maybe drive around in the snow, maybe utilize these chains I found in the garage of the house I'm sharehousing in. So last night I took out the bung on my 2001 Hilux (tray, extra-cab), took off the oil cap, closed the hood, went inside and slept. This morning I woke up, bright and early went outside, noticed it must have seriously poured last night. Shrugged. Put back bung, poured oil. Waited. Poured more oil in. Waited. Topped up oil (possibly put a little bit too much, since I haven't got a jug). Waited. Tried to start my car. The starter turns over, all the lights, the radio comes on. But the engine won't kick in. So I got out, mused, took some oil out until it's reading just under the line. Waited. Tried again. I think I broke my car. Anyone have any advice?
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Aug 25, 2010 01:26
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Super Aggro Crag posted:Apatite, those pictures are the epitome of why I want to buy a Toyota 4x4 and start wheeling. Do it! Toyota wheeling is cheap wheeling So far I've only got a rebuilt motor, all new and upgraded suspension/steering/brakes (OME leaf springs in front, bilstein shocks all around, new shock mounts/hoops front and rear, trail-gear crossover steering with IFS toyota truck steering box, larger toyota brakes from newer truck, blahblahblah), swapped some new 4.7:1 gears into the transfercase in place of the stock 2.28:1, blew up a locker and a couple of welded third members, now running just a lock-right in the rear, and so on and so on. oh wait, did I say something about cheap?? 
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Aug 25, 2010 02:36
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I love the creative sheet metal trimming on the bed. I didn't notice the first few pics showing the cleaner lefthand side, and then I got to one showing the righthand side, and I thought it was very strategically placed rust damage.
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Clamwacker posted:I love the creative sheet metal trimming on the bed. I didn't notice the first few pics showing the cleaner lefthand side, and then I got to one showing the righthand side, and I thought it was very strategically placed rust damage. Yeah lotsa bodywork to do but I hate it  The bed got shortened 11" by cutting the rear portion off, cutting out 11" and then welding the rear section back on. This eliminated a bunch of rust (plus shortened the bed so it doesn't get smashed up as much) and at the same time I welded new metal into the driver's side of the bed over the wheel well to make it so you couldn't see ALL the way through anymore, at least :P :P I still need to do the same on the passenger side, and a whole bunch of other poo poo. Despite being a California truck the majority of its life, the past 5 years or so of northeast winters have really taken their toll. I've had to replace all but one body-mount on the cab/frame, and also fabricate floorboards for both the driver and passenger sides of the cab. This worked out OK for me because I didn't want to move the front axle forward just yet, but I wanted more room between the tire and firewall for clearance. I basically "tubbed" the firewall at the same time I was replacing the floorboards. Essentially Toyota built this thing so it knwos how to rust in _just_ the right spots which I end up wanting to modify anyway
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Aug 25, 2010 19:08
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Helmacron posted:I'm out of work currently and was going to drive up to the Kosciuscko range today, maybe climb a mountain, maybe drive around in the snow, maybe utilize these chains I found in the garage of the house I'm sharehousing in. Petrol or Diesel?
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Off to a two day off road desert adventure tomorrow night. And not enough time to get everything ready  Bumped into a chorus of "But itttts tooo hotttt outttt...". It's a god drat desert, what do you expect  There was a bit of thundershowers over in Borrego Springs, so we'll see what the badlands look like this weekend.
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Aug 26, 2010 17:45
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apatite posted:Yeah lotsa bodywork to do but I hate it I guess there's a pretty good reason that most of these trucks that I see have been bobbed or caged in the rear. That's the perfect candidate for a custom box if you can find someone to do it affordably.
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Aug 26, 2010 18:07
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 I just jeopardized my trip. I did a full service and a coolant flush, and in the process drop and lost one of the crossover brass bleeder screws. I got a new one being sent to me but it won't get here in time. Using a bolt with a washer for now, it sorta works well enough for local driving with the bolt weeping a few drops a coolant but it won't work for desert driving for 2 days.  Hopefully I can source one before tomorrow.
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Ended up pushing the trip back to this labor day weekend. Where everyone canceled at the last hour, one person had a critical breakdown, and another group didn't get the memo and went out the weekend before.  Ah well, 2 trucks is enough of a group to party. This weekends trip was to the area around Ocotillo Wells off road vehicle park which is part of the larger Anza Borrego park near Borrego Springs, CA.  Click here for the full 1664x1133 image. Day one was mostly on the south side of the park, Going from the ranger station over to Devils Slide, the Shell Reef and a few other points of interest along the way ending at the gas domes then turning south back to the highway. Day two I remembered to save the GPS trail shown at the top. We were supposed to go run on Truckhaven trail which is on the North Side of S22 but we turned south and wound up going on the Tectonic trail instead. That's marked by the GPS line at the top. This is the daytime pic of coming into Borrego Springs from Temecula. it's a Twisty 2 lane road with a ton of switch backs. Awesome for motorcyclists, not so awesome for anything bigger than a normal passenger car.  Fuel was cheap on the way there...  Our little convoy..  And it was pretty hot, too hot to camp [90 degrees at night] so we got rooms at the local "resorts". And it was hot, food melted and shoes came unglued.   We hooked up with a bunch of xj's for a bit but they were running different trails. We the only groups in the whole park. Generally speaking it's too hot in the Summer [100-115] so most of the off road/motorsports crowd won't show up until the cooler months.     Not sure what this is, a memorial or grave marker?    Problem is with half the pictures we took, things were really steep or tricky to do, but when photographed, they don't really that difficult at all.    I gave the kids a ride in the H1, they got a kick out of it. We were airing up here before heading back to the motel.  Probably head back down again in a few weeks and try and re-try some obstacles that I couldn't do on this trip. I'll post some video later if I can get a hold of this crazy hill I tried to do and completely failed to climb, got up to 90% of the way then lost traction  Just wished I had more time to go explore out there, will have to do that this fall. Big K of Justice fucked around with this message at 07:40 on Sep 8, 2010 |
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Geared Hub posted:
That always seems to be the case when trying to photograph offroading. You tell them "this was a sphincter puckering run" and it looks like a walk in the park.
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Sep 10, 2010 00:07
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Why are those XJs running different tires front to rear?
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SNiPER_Magnum posted:Why are those XJs running different tires front to rear? Hmm taking a closer look, at first I'd say they swapped sets but the tires/rims are slightly different. Pro Comp MT's on the rears of both, and BFG AT-KO's on the front of one, and Toyo AT's on the front of the other. Either they're running the best set of tires they got mixed and matched, or some how thinking along the lines of using aggressive tires on the rear end where the weight is going up hills and having a/ts on the steers for sands and the whoops. I know that every time I see cheap off road tires for sale, it's usually 2 of them are good and 1 or 2 of the rest of the set has uneven wear or is cracking. I know that in short track off road racing, the teams will cut additional grooves into the tires, with deep cuts in the sidewalls to get extra grip on high speed turns in the dirt, and long cuts on the rears for traction for putting down all that power, in which case you'd have the tires with the aggressive sidewall up in the front. But those guys on the track are going 70-90 mph in dirt, not teter tottering across the desert at 5-15 mph. I'd say its a more of a budget thing. If my truck was a pure dedicated trail rig [these xj's were trailered in behind a motor home] I'd be using take-off's from race-dezert.com classifieds or craigslist and mixing and matching sets off street queen trucks and suv's.
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Question for off-road enthusiasts about Hi-Lift jacks. I want to keep one in my XJ at all times in case of emergencies or just for jacking up tires. It looks like the standard size is 48", but would I really regret it if I got a 42" one? I'd like to keep it in the car under the rear seat and think the 42" has a better chance at fitting vs. the 48". My car is modestly lifted (31" tires, 2" lift) so the extra height isn't necessary to yank the tires up on normal surfaces. When you're in a pinch off-road do you find the extra lift height is necessary?
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mod sassinator posted:Question for off-road enthusiasts about Hi-Lift jacks. I want to keep one in my XJ at all times in case of emergencies or just for jacking up tires. It looks like the standard size is 48", but would I really regret it if I got a 42" one? I'd like to keep it in the car under the rear seat and think the 42" has a better chance at fitting vs. the 48". My car is modestly lifted (31" tires, 2" lift) so the extra height isn't necessary to yank the tires up on normal surfaces. When you're in a pinch off-road do you find the extra lift height is necessary? You should be ok, although you should never be lifting a vehicle to the max height of the jack, so keep that in mind. I usually use a strap/hook attachment like the Lift-Mate. I hook the Lift-Mate to the wheel then jack it up a few inches and leave it at that. Off road, the tricky part is getting a nice level and stable surface, if the soil is too soft then you need to spread the load out using sheets of plywood with the optional support base, or even digging a better jacking point under the vehicle. You should be fine with a 42" jack I think. If you need extra height you could always jack it up, toss debris/rocks/soil underneath a wheel, then re-jack it up again.
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Geared Hub posted:Off road, the tricky part is getting a nice level and stable surface, if the soil is too soft then you need to spread the load out using sheets of plywood with the optional support base, I know its cheap, but plywood fuckin sucks dick. The added cost of these will pay for itself, trust me. http://www.dicausa.com/category.php?cat=Outrigger-Pads Or these: http://www.alturnamats.com/outrigger_pads.php E: Looks like they're pretty much the same company, but whatever. These things are dope as gently caress. scapulataf fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Sep 11, 2010 |
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Sep 11, 2010 05:31
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Yes, why use something that does the same job for free. I hate money, here have mine!
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Those outrigger things are neat, but even Hi lift sells a platform/holder for like $30. Different market, you won't get many offroaders paying $200+ for a small square of plastic. That's like 2 jacks, or a winch extraction kit, or sand ramps, etc. Sometimes you have to make do with what you find on the trail or what you have on you at the time.
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 .... so thats why everyone converts to crossover/hi-steer in their Toyotas. Bent it back, but now it gets tweaked if I even look at it funny. 
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economic haircut posted:
Same problem with Land Rovers - if it isn't the track rod (behind the axle), it's the drag link (in front). Took out the track rod on my Discovery last Saturday in the forest - snapped clean through! Got a spare from a club member, fitted it Sunday morning, and then bent it, just like the Toyota above, towards the end of Sunday afternoon. Borrowed another spare to get me home... On the bright side, got my rock/tree slider sills fitted at the same time. Got an RTV trial on Sunday, so will get pics up soon...
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Here's my Defender a couple of days after I'd bought it, having only thrown on my MT's from the range rover. Now it's undergone a few mods, lift, snorkel, winch bumper, breathers, tree sliders.  some flex  Down the line I'll probably go for 4.11's, arbs and 35"s. bonus shot of my old fourtrak pulling out a friends disco in the snow. 
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Rogz posted:Yes, why use something that does the same job for free. I hate money, here have mine! Where do you get free plywood from? Geared Hub posted:Those outrigger things are neat, but even Hi lift sells a platform/holder for like $30. Different market, you won't get many offroaders paying $200+ for a small square of plastic. That's like 2 jacks, or a winch extraction kit, or sand ramps, etc. Really, they're 200 a piece? Goddam. My boss paid for the ones we got, I had no idea they were that expensive. Our mobile mats were like 1200$ for 8 2X6 mats. I guess I interpolated incorrectly and assumed that those fuckers would only be like 50-60 bucks or something.
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Ferremit posted:Do you guys get the Pope Water Tractors over there in the states? I've never seen those in the US but my dad has about 8 antique Kees tractor sprinklers, which you can pick up on ebay for $50-100. They're cast iron, weigh a ton and are badass:  If it runs off it's hose track it will pull as far as it can and dig itself the gently caress into the ground until it bottoms out. I call them my dad's Grapes of Wrath Watering System. They put out a lot of pressure, I can see them being great for cleaning an underside.
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The Royal Nonesuch posted:I've never seen those in the US but my dad has about 8 antique Kees tractor sprinklers, which you can pick up on ebay for $50-100. They're cast iron, weigh a ton and are badass: Holy fuckin poo poo, I want one.
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I have that same thing, but mine is a bit worn and just leaks too much to really get the speeds to drive through my crabgrass
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 Going to look at this on Saturday. I've been watching the price come down all summer on craigslist... now I just have to find somebody to buy my Galant.
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Sep 30, 2010 18:01
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TheFrailNinja posted:
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Bojanglesworth posted:Picked up some matching rims and tires today for dirt cheap. Also ordered fender flares and tail lights that arent held together by packing tape. Updated photo after paint, fender flares, tailights, basket etc:  Short video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtmN0OH0hF4 Bojanglesworth fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Sep 30, 2010 |
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Would you believe it has 176k miles? Seller claims it drives like it has 50k, and I honestly don't care what the odo says if it drives as good as it looks. Every picture of this truck looks perfect, seller claims there's no rust. I'm psyched because my dad had a white '87 just like it many years ago. Only thing that could make it better is a 5-speed trans, but you really can't have everything. Just most things, in this case.
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TheFrailNinja posted:Would you believe it has 176k miles? Seller claims it drives like it has 50k, and I honestly don't care what the odo says if it drives as good as it looks. Every picture of this truck looks perfect, seller claims there's no rust. I'm psyched because my dad had a white '87 just like it many years ago. Only thing that could make it better is a 5-speed trans, but you really can't have everything. Just most things, in this case. drat, it seriously looks spotless. What is their asking price?
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