Sorry, can't resist posting these; this was the very first time it was fired up and driven after the SAS. It was cool to be there for a part of FJ history.
Checklist was gone over again and again... fluids, battery etc.
It was TALL! I can't remember how much.
You could just about stand up underneath it. We just all stood around wide-eyeds, even those who'd been building it for months.
So what does he do but jumps in and flies off. Couldn't believe how it zipped around the place like a go-kart. At rest it's a monster, but at speed it was a baja racer:
Into the ditch. We went through this a couple times and as I've commented before, you had to look down to verify that you actually were going across a ditch.
It's like the truck could extend its legs and just walk through whatever it wanted to.
He was ecstatic about how well it turned out. It was a proud moment for everyone. He went on and on about he wanted it.
There were no snags that I can remember, no immediate fix-its needed.
The last thing to do was figure out how to run over my rental car.
Needless to say there were always reasons to go out for another test drive. A complete gem of a build.
I remember JD cursing the engine cage while he was building it. In the end it turned out really nice. I think with your URD you would be hard pressed to fit a cage under the hood. You might be able to get something like Wyatt has that wraps the front of the engine, but I don't think over the engine will work. But then again you have that cool glass hood that probably give you more clearance. IDK, JD is the man...
,it looks great painted
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