AK.xplorer
Observer
Back 15 years ago when I was new to Alaska and before I had the budget to build more refined, and consequently more expensive landcruisers, I built a 1988 isuzu with the five speed manual and the 4:56 gearing. The 2.6l 4ze1 was a fairly powerful engine, and to this day, I like it far more than a 22re. I overheated it 3 times, never lost a head gasket.
I did the following:
ARB Air locker
3:1 terra flex gears
Calmini heavy sway bars
Calmini 3" suspension lift
Calmini Steering Stabilizer
3" indy4x body lift
Yakima Roof Rack
Full 2.5 flow master exaust
Desmoged Engine
New Clutch
265/75 Toyo Mt's
Over a decade after selling it, I found the poor thing sitting in disrepair, and couldn't let it die like that. I bought the poor thing for a few hundred bucks and fixed every single thing wrong with it, and gave the poor thing a new paint job, then re-sold it. I drove it for a few months, taking a walk down memory lane, remembering my son when He was an infant, in a car seat in the back. Now he's a deep-voice teenager!?
I painted it a metallic sand dune. The paint glowed some sort of desert orange in the low light, it was a glorious outback kind of color. Many years ago, I traveled all over in that thing, and really built my 4wd skills and mechanical knowledge in the thing. I pulled a 1 ton ford diesel miles back to the road with it in 4lo, and it out climbed and out accelerated any 22re around. So many fishing trips and so many hunting trips were done in that thing.
I did the following:
ARB Air locker
3:1 terra flex gears
Calmini heavy sway bars
Calmini 3" suspension lift
Calmini Steering Stabilizer
3" indy4x body lift
Yakima Roof Rack
Full 2.5 flow master exaust
Desmoged Engine
New Clutch
265/75 Toyo Mt's
Over a decade after selling it, I found the poor thing sitting in disrepair, and couldn't let it die like that. I bought the poor thing for a few hundred bucks and fixed every single thing wrong with it, and gave the poor thing a new paint job, then re-sold it. I drove it for a few months, taking a walk down memory lane, remembering my son when He was an infant, in a car seat in the back. Now he's a deep-voice teenager!?
I painted it a metallic sand dune. The paint glowed some sort of desert orange in the low light, it was a glorious outback kind of color. Many years ago, I traveled all over in that thing, and really built my 4wd skills and mechanical knowledge in the thing. I pulled a 1 ton ford diesel miles back to the road with it in 4lo, and it out climbed and out accelerated any 22re around. So many fishing trips and so many hunting trips were done in that thing.
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