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Here's my understanding of an EAS equipped vehicle: All air lines terminate to a valve body. This valve body has one large air inlet and one large air exhaust port. Typically when a wheel is stuffed into the wheel well, that air bag is simply squeezed. As the height sensor sees this event...

Your logic is sound. My past experience has shown me that when one bag is compressed severely, the sudden movement of air to the other side causes a sudden unloading of the coil spring. The body movement "feels" more severe to me at that instance, YMMV. This little point is totally subjective...

Sorry, didn't mean to sound cryptic! The air bladders inside the rear coil springs can be compressed to the point where they're practically getting pinched during wheel stuffage. These bags are that robust. Consequently, you don't lose much wheel travel, if any. If you connect the air...

Common misconception. ;) The benefits outweigh what little articulation is lost.

Couple of things to add: - air shocks as we know them (mullet optional) are weight carrying items and the shock mounts on typical SUVs aren't made with that in mind. In the old days, the shocks mounts were beefy and air shocks did their job. -if you want a little lift for occasional load...

Nah, not worth the headache in 100* heat and all that work :ack: Cheers.

Saw a decent shape '97 in the U Pull It yard on Broadway. It's the yard on the left where newer cars are kept. The vehicle is at the far North/East corner of the property. Still has some decent parts left on it, including the interior items. Front end damage. The Tcase and CDL still...

I'm still here, lurking around! Yes, I did the Sanden air compressor in the old '91 RRC. Not sure if I can find the pics but I managed to use air/oil separator and then recycled the oil back into the air compressor intake. The air output was great and I could easily fill up two sliders and...

I'm sitting in the Phoenix airport as I read the posts...if only I had more time, I can rent a car and check out this bad boy! Good news about the ABS sensor issue. You can use a Truspeed calibrator or something like that Slee sells for speedo calibration if that's all that is. Ali

Good job Don. Now, get rid of that IL plate and put on AZ plate. That should take care of any corrosion issue :D Regarding the Cat issue, find out the Emission requirement (visual check) before changing the 2 cats to 1 cat. For instance, in my case, the emission dude was told to look for two...

Nice project. Curious, what caster angle did you tell the fab shop to setup at? In a FZJ80, caster angle of 2.5* or greater works great. Looking forward to meeting up with you on the trails sometimes. I'd get the ARB locker if possible. Elockers can be "lazy" at times when you need...

Don, Good luck with your conversion; it should be an interesting swap indeed! Just a couple of observations I've made since owning a FZJ80 for about three years: -Most of my friends are running 315 75 16s (approx 34.7") tires on stock drivetrain w/o ANY issues. Depending on elevation, they're...

African Outback Drawers - $1200, yup, very pricey. I'd say build your own but don't knock these drawer systems. I built a drawer for my vehicle as well but I can guarantee that mine won't last if I regularly drive on corrugated roads for days on end. Once you look at these, you'll know why...

Another point of comparison: A friend traded in his '95 LWB with sliders and a rear ARB locker for $1500. I suspect he'd have gotten a tad more in the private world but this gives you an idea anyway! Good luck with your search. Ali

Your sway bar ends flipped over on the last wheeling trip! Just undo the ends for now, flip the sway bar over to the rear and bungee it out of the way and see how your ride is effected. This is avery subjective question; your idea of a crappy ride may be a nice ride to someone else! Ali

This statement indicates to me that there is a malfunction in your A/C system. Rather than trying to web diagnose it, I'd take it to an A/C shop and see what the deal is. You may have multitude of items such as the system over pressurizing, A/C comp clutch is malfunctioning, front electrical...

As stated already, the duty cycle for the EAS compressor is marginal at best. However, it can be used for tire inflation if needed. The stock air bags were run at a very high pressure and the volume of each bag is a very respecteble amount. However, the compressor didn't always run...

A thicker cable would make it easier to push the linkage back to the opposite end. It depends on how hard it is to rate your CDL knob that's on the Tcase. I think a PTO pull knob on various industrial trucks have a thicker cable. Unfortunately, the knob arrangement is a bit large and...

An expensive option would be to install air bags on four corners then deflate the right side as you go by the tree! I think you can tilt the vehicle about 15 degrees. http://www.roverspecialties.com/

I'd build them so that they stick out at least two inches beyond the sill. At least this way, you can use them as useful steps to access the roof. Or, you can bend up some DOM tubing and add them like nerf bars on the side of the slider tubes