Trapper50cal
Trail Ready
It is with much excitement and relief that I announce to my Rising Sun friends that after 5 years without a Land Cruiser (Some of those years, especially the last one being particularly brutal) I am about to reenter the fold.
This would not have been possible if not for two people.
1: Gregory Gold and his Law Offices - Getting me a bananas high settlement on the damage to my totaled Suburban. ( in addition to really helping out our position on the medical side of things )
2: Brett Schell @shellb - For stepping up and offering to sell me his 100 Series at an astronomically bro-level deal when I asked him to check out a rig for sale in Denver for me.
Many of you may not know but back in the day, I traded Ige a 76 FJ55 for a 1983 FJ60 that I subsequently named Ingrid...had a lot of fun in that 60, got engaged in Moab while attending Cruise Moab. Well, to help pay for that wedding, I sold the 60 to a guy from North Carolina with a hop bud as his avatar who then ended up moving to Colorado. I think he ended up trading Ingrid for a sweet little FJ40. Brett bought that 60 in 2010...13 years ago.
Now he is returning the favor and then some by helping me get back into a cruiser, and the model I actually have wanted to go to next for 7 years.
I hope I don't offend anyone who helped keep the lights on and the bellies full with donations to our gofundme while we were in the middle of all our troubles this past year. Suffice it to say I needed to get a vehicle to replace the burb and Brett's offer made it possible for that to be a 100 Series (and to be able to responsibly afford a couple upgrades right out of the gates). And a cloth interior 100 at that! I didn't even know that existed.
Brett has also sportingly offered to take care of a few things at ATLR there in Arvada that need doing AND help facilitate a few upgrades that are going to be way easier to source and complete while it's up there and in competent hands.
It's with Brett's full approval that I get back into the game officially in this thread here on RS.
I COULD USE A LITTLE ADVICE and guidance on a few things. (And maybe some assistance??)
1: Is it likely that either Yota Jim or another Toyota specific salvage yard in Denver has a 100 series hood in inventory?
I left a message at Yota Jim's but haven't heard back...the hood took the brunt of the hail damage and was already
suffering from clear failure and sun fading. The roof under the rack, I could care less about hail.
Is it the height of naïveté to think there might exist, somewhere in Denver, a used 4P3 metallic Desert Bronze hood?
2: Front diff - I know the 99 has a two-pinion front diff. I can't afford to re-gear and lock up all at once but I might
be able to afford a used third member from a salvage yard. I've been told that 2000-2002 front diffs are plug N play
and are 4 pinion. Does anyone know of anyone with the probability of having one of those to purchase?
Stock GR is 4.11, correct?
3: I love the Non-USA Steelies Brett put on her, but I may want to move them outboard a bit. Anyone have any advice
for or against wheel spacers with this application?
4: The suspension looks pretty good to go but I may get a diff drop and some used TrailTailor UCA's for sale on mud
to help with the CV angles along with some torsion bars and torsion bar re-enforcement brackets to bring the front
up just a touch more. Current conventional wisdom on UCA's seems to be that fixed angle of correction is the way to
go on these and that the SPC's are actually hamstrung a bit by their adjustability...along with a few recent reports of
SPC's failing. I don't know if that's blown out of proportion or amplified by social media or not.
And finally, with all due deference to Brett's choices, the Dissent bumper may not make the final cut. Is anyone in RS
just scrambling for a well-patina-ed early Dissent 100 Series front bumper? If so, I'm looking for ways to pay it forward!
I'm more of an ARB/TJM/Ironman front bumper design guy. And Cristo has the ARB in-stock. But bumper isn't a priority
budget-wise. Just thought I'd throw it out there to see if someone really had an itch for it.
Let all ideas and opinions flow, they are all welcome! Especially if it's to explain why I may be full of shit on something!
Next RS meeting I can arrange it for, the beers will be on me!
Cheers RS!
JT
This would not have been possible if not for two people.
1: Gregory Gold and his Law Offices - Getting me a bananas high settlement on the damage to my totaled Suburban. ( in addition to really helping out our position on the medical side of things )
2: Brett Schell @shellb - For stepping up and offering to sell me his 100 Series at an astronomically bro-level deal when I asked him to check out a rig for sale in Denver for me.
Many of you may not know but back in the day, I traded Ige a 76 FJ55 for a 1983 FJ60 that I subsequently named Ingrid...had a lot of fun in that 60, got engaged in Moab while attending Cruise Moab. Well, to help pay for that wedding, I sold the 60 to a guy from North Carolina with a hop bud as his avatar who then ended up moving to Colorado. I think he ended up trading Ingrid for a sweet little FJ40. Brett bought that 60 in 2010...13 years ago.
Now he is returning the favor and then some by helping me get back into a cruiser, and the model I actually have wanted to go to next for 7 years.
I hope I don't offend anyone who helped keep the lights on and the bellies full with donations to our gofundme while we were in the middle of all our troubles this past year. Suffice it to say I needed to get a vehicle to replace the burb and Brett's offer made it possible for that to be a 100 Series (and to be able to responsibly afford a couple upgrades right out of the gates). And a cloth interior 100 at that! I didn't even know that existed.
Brett has also sportingly offered to take care of a few things at ATLR there in Arvada that need doing AND help facilitate a few upgrades that are going to be way easier to source and complete while it's up there and in competent hands.
It's with Brett's full approval that I get back into the game officially in this thread here on RS.
I COULD USE A LITTLE ADVICE and guidance on a few things. (And maybe some assistance??)
1: Is it likely that either Yota Jim or another Toyota specific salvage yard in Denver has a 100 series hood in inventory?
I left a message at Yota Jim's but haven't heard back...the hood took the brunt of the hail damage and was already
suffering from clear failure and sun fading. The roof under the rack, I could care less about hail.
Is it the height of naïveté to think there might exist, somewhere in Denver, a used 4P3 metallic Desert Bronze hood?
2: Front diff - I know the 99 has a two-pinion front diff. I can't afford to re-gear and lock up all at once but I might
be able to afford a used third member from a salvage yard. I've been told that 2000-2002 front diffs are plug N play
and are 4 pinion. Does anyone know of anyone with the probability of having one of those to purchase?
Stock GR is 4.11, correct?
3: I love the Non-USA Steelies Brett put on her, but I may want to move them outboard a bit. Anyone have any advice
for or against wheel spacers with this application?
4: The suspension looks pretty good to go but I may get a diff drop and some used TrailTailor UCA's for sale on mud
to help with the CV angles along with some torsion bars and torsion bar re-enforcement brackets to bring the front
up just a touch more. Current conventional wisdom on UCA's seems to be that fixed angle of correction is the way to
go on these and that the SPC's are actually hamstrung a bit by their adjustability...along with a few recent reports of
SPC's failing. I don't know if that's blown out of proportion or amplified by social media or not.
And finally, with all due deference to Brett's choices, the Dissent bumper may not make the final cut. Is anyone in RS
just scrambling for a well-patina-ed early Dissent 100 Series front bumper? If so, I'm looking for ways to pay it forward!
I'm more of an ARB/TJM/Ironman front bumper design guy. And Cristo has the ARB in-stock. But bumper isn't a priority
budget-wise. Just thought I'd throw it out there to see if someone really had an itch for it.
Let all ideas and opinions flow, they are all welcome! Especially if it's to explain why I may be full of shit on something!
Next RS meeting I can arrange it for, the beers will be on me!
Cheers RS!
JT
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