yesterday I tried to order the Trail Tough steering, but their website didn't like my credit card and I couldn't get anyone to answer the phone. So today I ordered the Trail Gear align correct full kit but ordered it from Poly Performance with a military discount, no tax, and free shipping.

Sounds like it worked out for the good!  Hope things go together well and you get to have some safe fun!

This weekend (and this week) I am working on the roof of our house so not much time for anything else. We did manage to pull the rear seat and seatbelt. Also pulled the plastic side trim in plans of making rocker protection/sliders, as part of that I was going to unbolt these.











Of course though they are welded to the frame, and not very well but enough to make it a hassle to remove. Also found the transmission crossmember has seen better days.

Any progress is good progress, right?  It sure stinks when things like the roof on your house gets in the way of working on our Suzukis!

Got my lockers today and felt like an idiot lol.



I know I have to use the 26 spline spider gears from my rear axle and move them to the front when using the longfield chromoly axles and lockers, ive seen several videos of people using their rear spiders up front when installing lockers.... did not pickup on the little detail that most of them were running spools in the rear so they had the spider gears available lol. So I found some NOS spider gears for about $65-70 and ordered them, now I can run my lockers front AND rear.

Good to hear the solution was easy to come across.  Are you running mechanical lockers or air?

Spartan lockers front and rear.

got an email from Certified Machine that they got a shipment of Toyota 3K carbs in and should have all the back orders filled by tomorrow. I will be really interested in how much better the carb swap runs because the choke on this one is wired in place making it a cold blooded bastard.

I got my TOY-250 from National Carburetors before knowing about Certified Machine. I really like the complete kit from Certified.
I was told that, when the OEM carb is operating correctly, it's the best carb for the 1.3L but none are probably working correctly after 30+ years. The TOY-250 was a great improvement over my old stock and I personally like the manual choke.
https://nationalcarburetors.com/NEW-Toyota-Corolla-1977-1978-10771166-CC-877--1078_p_431.html

I got my TOY-250 from National Carburetors before knowing about Certified Machine. I really like the complete kit from Certified.
I was told that, when the OEM carb is operating correctly, it's the best carb for the 1.3L but none are probably working correctly after 30+ years. The TOY-250 was a great improvement over my old stock and I personally like the manual choke.
https://nationalcarburetors.com/NEW-Toyota-Corolla-1977-1978-10771166-CC-877--1078_p_431.html

I looked into the Toy 250 from National and even just getting a 3K off amazon, but like you said the one from Certified Machine is a kit, he test runs them, and he makes the needed modifications to fit the Samurai. I'm new to Samurais so I will take all the help I'm given and I have been doing my research lol. I looked at going propane, MY-Side, 1.6 but for the prices I liked the Certified Machine. I will definitely let everyone know how it works out.

Certified Machine carb showed up yesterday, the mounting kit that comes with it has some quality machined pieces and quite the detailed instructions.

Well the whole family came down with Covid so nothing happened for most of the last 2 weeks, were all doing better now and luckily none of us were too bad.

Back to building, first my son and i spent a day cleaning the "shop" and moving all the Cherokee parts out (stored in the Cherokee), moved the cherry picker, engine stands, and chain saws to another shed. There is just enough room to get the Sammi in and work around it.










as you can see, there's not much room, this building used to be an old carriage house, there's a concrete floor and not much else of anything lol.






removing the stock carb (with the choke wired) and installing a Toyota 3K from Certified Machine



and since I have the extra space right now we are installing a Chevy alternator. I used the LROR kit, not too impressed with them, the kit includes the lower and upper brackets, belt, alternator, and pigtail. the belt doesn't fit, its too short and there's only about .25-.50" of adjustment before the alt fan hits the water pump pulley. so its not done yet.



But I did get the new carb installed.

It sure seems that is not the alternator I would choose for that kit.  There are 10SI alternators with a much smaller external fans that would be a much better choice.  I would definitely not be happy with that matching of components.

It sure seems that is not the alternator I would choose for that kit.  There are 10SI alternators with a much smaller external fans that would be a much better choice.  I would definitely not be happy with that matching of components.

ya the whole reason I bought a "kit" was so it would be easy to slap on

Just asking - shouldn't the water pump pulley pass in front of the alternator fan?  Do the vee belt pulleys actually line up?