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Excuse bad taste .... Illegals in a shipping container. Cheap Long Travel. Ball joint kit for starters to improve travel.

Excuse bad taste .... Illegals in a shipping container. Cheap Long Travel.

Pinion seal gone - that bounce will have chewed it out. Gearbox out of 4wd enables you to free turn the front shaft, and as ADD disconnects the front shaft from the diff that should really isolate the issue to be either the shaft itself (bent or frozen extension), the front or rear universal...

32's narrows fit, but under compression on full lock the tread will touch the mudflap bolts ... but how hard depends on just how big/how worn your tyre is and the rim offset (narrower track tucks in and clears better). Some run a ball joint spacer kit and lift the front - this lessens the amount...

32" Toyo's on 16" rims, but now running Hankook Dynapro MT's that look similar. Just as quiet onroad, $140 cheaper each tyre, much lighter. Traction I think is actually better than Toyo's (my last trip they never broke traction once even in 2wd trail work), but possibly weaker in sidewall than...

I've had both SA and IFS version 4 runners. Because its my everyday drive & offroader as well, I've compromised and now live with the IFS on a gen2. My perspective here...To survive the initial shock of going from SA to an IFS, I added a 4" lift kit, lockers/LSD, run BJ spacers and modified...

My oops - meant drive axles - T100 drive axles are used as they are longer than 4runner axles, and the cv's at each end must be swapped onto the longer axles. Lift comes from lengthened upper & lower A Arms

I'm thinking long travel shocks and the blazeland IFS lift kit up front (kit has good resale value when you go SAS), bolt on/off and requires a lot less labour than 4 inch) and up the rear landcruiser coils and a weld in panhard rod centre extension plug would be a better option. Putting the new...

Maybe a bit too much explanation here, but anyway... The instrument cluster when removed has a plastic backing with all the instruments bolted to it. The bulbs simply plug into that plastic backing plate, pass through it and backlight the instruments. The OEM instrument backlit lights are green...

You can get LED kits from ebay and faceplates. I'm not convinced green, blue or red LED's are that good visually on old style dials - I'd suggest you stick to white. They do have some shadow zones, not like the OEM bulbs. Its a bit of work to get the cluster out but nothing too hard - bulbs are...

Must be frustrating not to hear her purr. Blowby oil in the intake is nothing new. All I can think of is possibly cylinders are absolutely flooded, spark is too weak for some reason, plug leads out of sequence, a secret kill switch wired in by the former owner. Even if a key wire in the...

The speed of the grinding noise sounds to me to be consistent with a wheel rotation ie the noise cycles with one revolution of a tyre, rather than a U joint as the shaft spins at a different speed. It sounds low frequency, not a whine, or a howl like transmission. Driveshaft u Joints give a...

So no combustion at all even with starter fluid ? So the plugs are wet I presume indicating fuel going through ? RPM Signal circuit, Circuit opening relay, distributor or ECM all possibilities, though changing the ignition over I'd be reconfirming that's not the issue. Why ignition change...