Recent content by Sharpie330

Doesn't seem to be holding pressure... Any ideas?

The front is working perfectly. Plenty of clearance, could probably handle a set of 37s. The solid axle and locker up front is night and day different than my old open IFS. Super happy with it. The rear wheel wells don't fit my 35s in them, need to do some trimming. I initially thought thought...

Well I got a hold of a set of rear TG 5" springs. Made a set of 6.5" shackles and now it's sitting pretty. Need to finally mount my rear shocks, now that the ride height is where I want it. More to come.

Went up to bald moutain this weekend near shaver lake in california. Was a good time. Got to test out the new suspension. This is at the top. This is on the trail. I am going to try to insert a video here. Its a timelapse taken with a GoPro isnt amazing but pretty neat, the music is a...

Need to do a leak down test to find out where is it leaking.

One thing more I will add about the Nissan Xterra. I have serviced hundreds of these vehicles and have never seen them with much more than 200k miles, most of them have been in the 100-150 range. I have also serviced hundreds of toyotas and regularly see them with 250k plus. There are 4 that I...

Front Axle swap done. And my suspicion was correct, the rear sits pretty low. Next item in the agenda is making some taller shackles for the rear and maybe adding a leaf.

For 20k you could get a sweet built early 4 runner, 95 and older. And where it lacks in creature comforts that a newer runner would have, it way more than makes up for it in off road ability. If you are actually looking for a daily driver that you can take off-road every once in a while then a...

Axle swap is underway. Going to finish it up tomorrow.

Yeah this is my first rodeo, and first time using a 220 welder. I was very generous with the feed, and the bead is very thick, much thicker than it looks in the pictures. I wasn't expecting it to be a whole lot different than using my 110 miller, but it acted way different. I'll try running it a...

I'm going to try to utilize that cross member somehow.

If it still has the factory 4 link in the rear you should strongly consider offing that in the process of all of this. There are about 1,000 SAS build threads across the interwebs, Marlin Crawlers site, here, yota tech, etc. It all really depends on what you are doing. Swapping to an old...

Here are some more after pics, it rides way better than the 4 link did. Firm but not rigid, the 4 link was super soft and swayed a lot. The front will be going in this next Thursday, pretty excited about that.

I was able to get the rear leaf conversion done today. Took about 9 hours. Before First thing was to get the links out of the way Then disconnect the brake line, proportion valve linkage, sway bar links and brake cable. Then the axle came right out from underneath. I had to cut off...

But yeah these MTRs have been awesome.