oddly enough, i only managed to pivot it forward. the bolts are pretty loose at this point, and it has to come off for me to fix it. this thing isnt really a wheeler, the brush guard give me mall points yo.

 

Just finished swivel rebuild and defender 90 front brake conversion !!!!

 

Picked up a rear and side blinker assembly at the junkyard. Surprisingly out of 20 junkyards that I called only 2 had Any LR at all. Only one still had the rear bumper. Thought I hit the jackpot when I found a Disco II with ladder and brush guard with kc lights. But he said he couldn't part it out yet. At the junk yard!!??

 

cleaned it up from being all dirty at rausch. still needs a bit more scrubbin' inside but its clean enough for now. also just ordered a case of zerex green coolant from amazon since no one sells anything but AMAM coolants around here...

 

supa cool rausch pics

Dark Sky Disco by adamftw, on Flickr

Rovin' by adamftw, on Flickr

Easy Mode by adamftw, on Flickr

 

Nice pix bro. What trails did you run?
Any old favorites that you ran with the Xj or just stuck to greens?
Any temperature issues?

 

on day one i ran the blue section of 22, the new topless for tatas trail (which was a great), and a couple other greens. had a break with another dude in the group so i never made it to J and the 101 trail. on day 2 we were on the new property, ran a couple greens and blues. i was leading so i didnt take a lot of pictures. i noticed the truck getting warm early on day 1, so i popped the hood, unplugged the AC compressor and just left the blower on low with the "AC" on so the fans would run all day and didnt have any issues after that. i'm installing the gauges and all my new hoses/stat this weekend, as well as wiring an efan override switch up.

 

Very cool.
No issues with lack of ground clearance and no sliders while running blues?
I'm sure tire placement was key.
Glad to hear you didn't have any overheating issues.
I was assuming on the trail would be when it would happen.

 

i took it slow and learned where to put the tires. i hit the front radius arm and rear control arm mounts more than anything else. i'd like to fab some sort of belly/tcase skid since this thing is so long and low with the 31s. oh, and i need to steal one of those headlight sprayers from you if you still have em... must have caught the hose on something bc i ripped one off.

 

1/2" expanded aluminum on the SD rack so things don't fall between the rails