True duals will be tight and almost certainly be a bullseye for stuff on the trail. Just run 2.5" back from the y pipe. My truck will never be sold as it sits unless someone wants to pay me quite a lot. If it goes it will be parted out. I could clear an easy 2k on the axles and difs plus the suspension, rack, bumpers, wheels/tires, etc..

 

Got the Battle Wagon back today. Exhaust ended up being 2 1/2" pipe to a single magnaflow and sounds freakin perfect, not too loud but nice tight rumble.

I really like the aggressive look of the new tires 3057016 with the 30mm spacers. Rookie mistake: only ordered the spacers for the front. I was just thinking clearance not what it was going to look like having the rears tucked in nicely and the fronts sticking out. Fixed, just ordered another pair.

Got transmission and shafts replaced. Shifts nice and solid. That was the vibration and the winning I was hearing.

Fluids in both diffs and transfer case changed.

Got the windows fixed again! Nice to be able to lower them and breathe fresh air.

Vaccum leak fixed that was causing idling issue.

Didn't get the sound system in, had wrong wiring harness. Small issue. Now I'd rather listen to the exhaust note.

Need to get a new steering damper tomorrow.

I got a set of BF Goodrich T/A KO's for sale now. I'll post up in for sale later after I have a chance to snap some pics. 75% tread. 2457516.

 

I bought it & brought it home. New to me '98 D1 w/ a 2" Terrafirma lift sitting on 245/75-16 BFG KM2's. Drove the 230 miles home very nicely after a thorough pre-buy inspection. Now that it is in my shop I have installed an optima battery for improved power to the winch, removed the roof rack (I know, I know but it's just not practical for my applications), pulled the wheels and spent some further time underneath and under the hood checking everything out. I also ordered a scangauge II to keep tabs on the temps, diagnose codes etc. It's been a few years since I have owned a LR & I'm looking forward to another love/hate relationship!

 

Replaced the white fuel door with a missing lock with a black fuel door that had a lock, and my key actually opens the lock go figure! Painted the door with some bedliner coating for protection, and it doesn't look as out of place as I thought on a white D1 SD. It kind of "flows" with the black door handles, and once I get the lower panels and roof sprayed with bedliner coating, it should blend in even better.

 

That is one sweet looking 98! Very clean. Love the hood, that's my next mod. Let us know how the rest of the blackout looks. I haven't seen the bottom done yet on white.

 

Here's a pic of the black fuel door...

I also attached a pic of my '93 Explorer Sport, where I had the hood and roof sprayed with Rhino-liner. I think it cost $400 for that, so I'm hoping it won't cost much more to get the lower panels and roof done on the D1 SD. My plan is to get the lower side panels sprayed at the moulding strip, so that way there will be a solid black line all the way across, covering up those small sections of white at the doors and wheel wells.

My MS Paint skills are crude at best, but here's a pic of just the side panels done, and the side panels and roof. As with other D1s, the paint on the roof isn't in the best of shape, and since it's the largest horizontal surface, I think Rhino-lining the roof will probably outlive the truck! 'Course I could probably get the roof Rhino-lined in white, but that might look a little too "ghey", lol...

 

I really think it looks better now than any rhino lining could ever look. A white disco it a fine thing.

 

I agree on the white. One of the best looking colors on discos and it stays nice, doesn't fade, and is easy to clean up being a single stage paint. Tomorrow I am going to throw the Saginaw P-series pump on, figure out which length belt to get. Wednesday or Thursday is removing the ABS modulator and bypassing it completely to gain some room and then it will be time to start looking at how I'm going to mount my coilover hoops. They shouldn't need to be too high in the engine bay so I'm hoping I can route the intake without too many issues. This will by far require more thought and planning than any other mod I've done!

 

truck wouldnt turn over when i left work, first thing i checked was fuel pressure and i had none... checked the fuel pump fuse, that was good. flipped up the carpet and man-forced up the cover to the fuel pump bc i had no tools. someone had been in there before, only two screws were holding it on and the pump did not look original. unplugged and plugged back in the electrical connector for the fuel pump, BAM fuel pump works again.

i swapped out one of my rear jump seats with a buddy last night, so i got home, and mounted my CO2 tank in that spot today. also replaced one of the exhaust hangars so my magnaflow isnt floating under the center of the truck, and greased the rear driveshaft and ujoint at the tcase end.

 

Today I finished my dash project. I had a wicked curling dash that had even popped the "repair kit". Thinking I couldn't make it look worse...I cut the old foam out, it mostly crumbled away and them fabbed a 1/16" Checkerplate cover for the dash. Painted it matte black and screwed it on. I'm pretty happy with it.