Brians F/R Locked Long Travel Camping and Overland Build

I will never swap back to manual, my Samurai has so much more control with the automatic.

 

Awesome build but if you don’t mind me asking, what exhaust do you have? Truck sounds awesome in the last video.

 

Thanks, it’s a flowmaster super 44

 

Installed MESO map lights! Dome lights coming soon.

 

Sound deadened the trans tunnel to help with the noise.....

 

Good idea.

 

More pics from the cove

 

Starter was acting up on me so I pulled it and cleaned it up. Works good as new now.

 

Walk us through what you did here. Did you replace the brushes? I’m not sure what we are looking at in the photos.

 

Opened the housing. Cleaned the copper contacts inside the main hosing. Cleaned the plunger copper ring as well. I used madd air flow sensor cleaner on the whole thing. Greased the gears as well.

nothing was replaced, just cleaned.

 

That’s awesome.

 

Thanks, after my last trip my starter started acting up. Reallly slow cranks with clicking. We went through a lot of water so I think it corroded the contacts pretty bad. Now it’s all good again.

 

Did a good bit of work on the truck this weekend. Fixed my starter, changed diff fluid and glad I did cause water had leaked Through breather hose. Relocated breather line. Switched out my LED high beams. Also wired my top light at back up.

 

Did you just do the rear diff? What made you want to change it out? It’s almost time for me to do my front/rear/transfer case fluids again too.

 

No front diff, i changed it because of break in period. Im going to check my rear diff this week but nothing probably got in there.

 

I just ordered 6 quarts of Mobil 1

$28 75w-90 Synthetic Gear Lube - 1 Quart (Pack of 2)

75w-90 for $61 and change from Advanced Auto, with their 25% off coupon code. Also just ordered some OEM transfer case oil from OEM Parts Source for $57. I'll probably do all my diffs and TC this weekend, along with an oil change.

 

nice, i use Lucas 85w 140 for my Diffs. Lucas seems to be the best performance oil out there

 

Oil is oil! lol As long as it meets the standard, it's good. I don't think I've ever used an oil that's been exceedingly better than another! I ran the cheap Walmart oil in my 2nd gen and Mobil 1 synthetic in my 3rd gen, and my 2nd gen has 311K on it right now.

When you gonna be at your uncle's place again?

 

https://eastcoastgearsupply.com/ft-2536-ecgs-gear-oil-recommendation.html

Read this article lol.

Anyways not sure what day yet.

 

If I had east coast gears in my truck, I'd run that oil too. I'm going to change every 30K, so not really an issue for me1