Box Rocket 1995 FZJ80 Build

Pennies is right!

 

short clip of one section of trail.
https://youtu.be/EnEymOMRm8w

 

Well Lord Vader, I will stick with my triple lockers and continue to resist the dark side.

 

Mineral basin??

 

Not planning on a crawl box. Not necessary IMO, at least on my truck. I'll play in the rocks occasionally but that's not the primary purpose. I spent a lot of time in the rocks with my last 80 series and it always had stock gears. Was never a problem. All that said, I have a set of 4.88's sitting on the shelf just waiting for me to have time to get them installed. That will help a bit.

Yessir.

 

The one spot I back up in the video was because the backside of that rock that you can't see was pretty steep. The first time I tried climbing it, the front end wanted to slip to the passenger side and it would have caused the rear axle to get hung up. I needed the truck to stay on the correct line so I backed up a little and was able to keep the front of the truck on the right line.

 

Wow, what a change in scenery. I have only done it once and that was early spring and we got snowed on. It looks completely different in the fall. Gorgeous colors. Might have to get up there soon.

 

well, if you don't get up there soon you'll miss it. Most of the aspens are already past the golden color and are already turning black/brown.

 

What do you think of those LED headlights? Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see what you thought of them.

 

Love 'em! Great inexpensive mod. Huge difference over the stock bulbs.

 

Awesome. I have been debating between LED and HID. One of my lights just burnt out so it's the perfect time.

 

@SjTacoSharks this is his LC and he had a sweet tacoma build page to

 

i vote hids with a retrofit. i love mine.

 

HIDs are cool. The reason I didn't go with HIDs on my Cruiser is because the factory headlight housing has a glass lens with "reflector/diffusers" molded into the lens. instead of a clear lens like the Tacoma has. I think HID's lose their effectiveness without a clear lens and I wasn't interested in changing the housings on my cruiser and actually prefer the glass lens over the plastic lens on the Tacoma that yellows and gets foggy. I also like that the LEDs have a much lower power draw.

FWIW had I changed the lights on my Tacoma I'd have probably looked at HIDs first. All that said, I'm really happy with the LED bulbs.

 

@gordi, @SjTacoSharks questions? sounds like the truck (or me) has been the topic of conversation

 

admiring your work man. He hadnt seen your builds and we were discussing @loco LC build and how it kinda died down so i showed him yours. Then said your tacoma had my heart though.

 

Mines going to be fired back up here soon... stuck dealing with the wife's medical issues still but I plan on dropping the tranny in November....

 

i was more referring to the T and A in your build haha! But good to hear it i need some more LC porn. Hope your wife is ok

 

Ohhh yeah about that... just consider this some down time to allow the mods to forget and give us some breathing room for future activities

 

Cool. Let me know if there is anything I can help with.

Sorry to hear about your wife Phil. Hope it all works out well.