FJ Cruisers of Northern California

Alessio went up!

Hi I am in Corona right now. DeMello has just finished to install the bumper, winch, and lift. We still have to do the electrical connections, will do tomorrow.

I also visited Mike at Icon's, and had a look at their shop. Amazing!

Very, very nice people...

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Permalink Reply by manoweb on June 12, 2009 at 11:50pm

:( :( :(

I realized that now my radio doesn't work anymore :( :( :(

I mean, the display turns on and it would seem everything is good, but there is absolutely no sound even if I crank up the volume at MAX, both radio and cd/mp3...

What should I do in your opinion? Tomorrow morning I'll try to call DeMello but I am not sure anybody will be at the shop on Saturday...

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Permalink Reply by C4B_ROCKs on June 17, 2009 at 7:34am

But still where is the pic of you new rig with the new lift and face...hehehe

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Permalink Reply by C4B_ROCKs on June 14, 2009 at 10:54pm

Check the fuse?

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Permalink Reply by manoweb on June 14, 2009 at 11:03pm

Well no the fuses are OK; I opened up the dashboard and removed the button, now the stereo works correctly. I will have to check where he connected the "always hot" and for the light in the button (that didn't actually work).

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Permalink Reply by C4B_ROCKs on June 14, 2009 at 11:19pm

Thats good you got your radio to work...

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Permalink Reply by Boss73 on June 17, 2009 at 8:42am

Dude not another post on here with out pics.. Me want to see me want to see...

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Permalink Reply by manoweb on June 17, 2009 at 5:03pm

I'm uploading the images right now, give me some minutes...

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Permalink Reply by manoweb on June 17, 2009 at 10:55pm

Ok so it was 85 pictures... I've uploaded them on my website to not take too much space on the norcalfjs server. You can also click the images to see them at a higher resolution.

But first, few words on the install:
as some of you know, it's been a while since I planned to buy a bumper. At that point, I decided to mount a winch, that is my dream since I was a kid. In Italian it's called "verricello" :) and my mother was the first that explained me what was it for.

I bought a Titan 12000lb from the canadian guy. I got the synthetic line that is lighter. I still have to buy a decend set of recovery tools.

As for the lift, especially after the installation of the Bud built skid plates my FJ with stock (Bilstein) suspensions was sagging a bit. I read a lot on the blue forum and asked for advice to everybody. I got an intense mail exchange with Mike at Icon to understand their products and my needs.

I realized I wanted something that allows me to do some good rock-crawling, but what I really like to do is expedition style trips, maybe in some remote area; if I will ever have the possibility to take a sabbathic I wish to do a terra del fuego - Alaska or similar.

With this in mind, and also thanks to a good deal I got from Icon and special discount from DeMello, I got their top of the line products.

Stop words now and some pictures:
http://lnx.manoweb.com/montagna/20090611-DeMello/

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Permalink Reply by 5AND5TORM on June 17, 2009 at 11:08pm

WOW! Very nice, it must feel like a totally different FJ. Congrats.

what are your rear coil springs?

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Permalink Reply by manoweb on June 17, 2009 at 11:47pm

The new ones came with the Icon package.

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Permalink Reply by Bozly on June 17, 2009 at 11:08pm

Pretty sweet dude.
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