Halló from Kanada :-)

Sorry for the English .. I found a translator , but I’ve used it many times to translate webpages and it makes me laugh a lot 😉 . Sometimes it makes no sense at all . Here is an example .. I’ll let it translate my first paragraph . See what you all think :

[Fyrstur , ÉG vildi eins og til hrós þú allur á a mikill website! A vinur málsgrein mig a hlekkur til hér í óákveðinn greinir í ensku email hann fullur bræði , og ÉG hafa been stöðva það út alltaf síðan. Þú hafa a mjög víðtækur ljósmynd albúm , hver hefur mig sumir mikill hugmynd óður í hvaða það verða vera eins og til Ísland.]

First , I would like to compliment you all on a great website ! A friend sent me a link to here in an email he wrote , and I have been checking it out ever since . You have a very extensive photo album , which has given me some great ideas about what it must be like to be in Iceland .

I live on the North shore of Lake Superior , so I can relate to the winter images I have seen in your album . Although we have had a very good winter so far , as temperatures go . We’ve only been down to -25°C once so far , and that was with a windchill . And we have yet to see any real snow ; it was a green Christmas here in the city , and only 2 cm in the woods surrounding . I think the skiiers and snow machine enthusiasts aren’t too happy ;-(

One of the reasons I am posting is because I have a 1997 FZJ80 petrol , that I imported into Canada , which I would like to modify . So far I have replaced the shocks and coils with Old Man Emu Light/Med shocks/coils . This raised the truck almost 8cm over stock . Next I put on BFG AT KO 315/75R16 tyres .

I would like to add some Formverk flares and move the rear axle back , and then put on some 38″ tyres . A friend in Iceland did just this as many of you may have , and even sent me some great pics . The problem is that I myself will not be doing the work , and so I would need a great deal of detailed info before I trust my local auto repair shop to start cutting into my truck .

I am thinking of things like moving the rear axle . I went to the Formverks site and fell in love with the blue HDJ80 they have pics of . It is , of course , very similar to pics of your own 80’s I have seen in your photo album . I unfortunately don’t have any experience welding etc , so I would like to find detailed instructions , and perhaps drawings for making the necessary modifications . It’s one thing to look at pictures , it’s entirely something else to know all the correct measurements etc .

Perhaps I’m being a little fearful of starting this project without precision information on every aspect . I think perhaps I was spoiled by the lift I put on my 4Runner . Trailmaster? sent all the necessary parts and detailed instructions … if I thought someone in Iceland could get together all the parts needed for this project and could ship them to me with instructions , I’d be signing a cheque today :-))

bestur horfa á ,

Tyler