Well I'm back! Have had a lot going on in the last six months with new job,house, no internet, blah blah blah, and aint done fek all on my hilux. Its taken me about 4 hours to read all thats been going on here
Lots of new members and the old faithfull still here 
Some funny shit too, specially Steve's exploits in the MU 
That video of you jetting backwards down the hill had me in fits 
Same with Mikes vid of Gareth flopping rofl!.
Ok progress on my junk has been since the ifs mount as follows
1 - Stripped the 7m down to find the head gasket blown in 2 places, not totally unexpected with these engines, so new head gasket fitted and torqued down to 25 higher than stock.Head was pressure checked and cleaned, couple of leakin valves sorted, so she should be good now. Only needs to last one season the I want to drop a 1jz-gte vvti, single turbo and R154 in it!. 280+ hp and 300ft/lbs of torque at 2400rpm....oh yes!!
Check out this link http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=11982.0 to a similar 7mge rebuild and install as mine.
2 - Finished the rear crossmember that takes the rear 4 link
Will have some pics early next week, digicam shuld arrive this weekend.
Bought one of those combi plasma cutter, tig, stick welders on tardme a while back too, works beautiful. Anyone who does any fabbing should get one, only 1500 bux, cuts 16mm steel ok,12mm much easier, 160amp stick welder, and 160 amp tig. Its an inverter so it wont weld alloy.
Right now I need some help with some parts
I need a sump, oil pump and pickup off a 7mgte out of a supra. I'm after the mid bowl sump. I think an old school 4m cressida has the same setup as well but I'm not sure, anyone know?
