Fantom Fabrication and Designs

The bumper is finished, fitted and outfitted for my trip. Every thing appears to be perfectly aligned and working smoothly. Now to subject it to a month of BC trails.

Finally got the bumper back from the powdercoater. Textured black finish, turned out great. Managed to get it bolted on. Tomorrow, the swing outs. Almost ready for the trip!

I'll be field testing this little invention I made on the upcoming trip. Going to see if aluminium is going to be strong enough to deal with the abuse of the trail. Having been on many trails that require frequent cutting, it's always annoying having to put the saw back or trying to find a home for it. I'll see how durable, convenient, and easy to use it's going to be.

I've been fabricating little things here and there and doing major maintenance while I wait for the rear bumper to get powder coated. After the transfer case rebuild, I went with the twin stick option to get me seperate selection between 2wd or 4wd and high or low range. I could have bought a kit ....but I didn't like it entirely so I made my own. Benefit of this one is it can be returned to stock if someone wants it in the future. Also had to fix the transmission cover, the original Aqualu body had a tiny and useless flange, and the entire thing was attached with self drilling screws. So now it's wider and I'm using riv nuts and bolts. Hate it when people cut corners. While I fabricated that, my very good friend Robert did the space shuttle coating on the floor boards to cut down on the heat and road noise.

Finally finished the bumper for my BJ42 with dual swing outs. Mostly .125 and .105 thick steel but gusseted and structurally designed to evenly disperse weight to the mounting points. The main body is made up of 22 components, laser and waterjet cut, cnc formed. Just going out for powder coating, textured black.

Most of the jobs I do I have to sign confidential agreements for, so I can't post things. But every now and then, I get to work on my stuff. Like this new 40 series rear bumper, about to be trail tested.

A few years back I sold my little lathe due to space restrictions. I've recently been looking to buy one again (and sadly I just missed a nice 12x36 Sharp for $1000 on CL). Since I don't have one, I had to outsource this to a shop that the company I currently work for deals with. Pretty simple task, made from 316, metric threads, runout tolerance is .005 on everything. The big thread is M16x1.5 and is supposed to be 1.063"-1.078" long. What I get is 1.463" and the M10 thread at the front is so far out of linear runout that I can actually see it. I need a lathe again! anyone wanting to sell a smallish engine lathe in good condition for around $1000-1500 (or depending what it is, we can talk), let me know.

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Who says a 40 series doesn't have much room? I designed and built this system to maximize storage and make everything easily accessible. So far the prototype has been working out great. I have a few minor changes I need to do to it but the last few longer trips have proven that the design is sound.

The 3 happy buttons. When you press them, they make you happy. The ease of use of the Terrain Tamer 4WD E-locker is awesome, and no air lines! The third button is for in-cab winch control, no more remote cables across the hood, or dead batteries in the wireless remote. The "spool in" and "spool out" momentary buttons are mounted in a convenient location in the center console.

Finally managed to get a little time off and relax. Who says we don't have white, sandy beaches in BC? The Terrain Tamer 4WD suspension and E-lockers performed perfectly. Very happy with the ride quality, on and off-road performance.

Along with a complete rebuild of most of the truck, lifting the body off the frame and cleaning/sealing it, rebuilding all the axles and converting the rear one into a full floater with a proper e-brake, I also designed and built the rear storage/kitchen.

https://www.flickr.com//280410/in/album-72157669201950850/ My recent project has been the complete remake of my newly acquired 1984 BJ42. For this build I ended up selecting Terrain Tamer for the bulk of the upgrades. There will be technical and detailed writeups coming up over the next few weeks but I wanted to give a sneak peak to something that is not very common. An FJ45 full-floating axle with an e-brake, using all Toyota factory parts ....some a bit modified. I spent hours researching forums and for some reason no one else has documented doing this. So I might be the first ....doubt it though. The reason for putting a full floating rear axle into a BJ42 is simple, that was the only way to get the latest Terrain Tamer E-locker in the back.This thing is beautiful! enjoy the pics and more details to come.