Annual servicing and lighting upgrades

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55,229
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I sent the 1989 Isuzu Trooper RS - which stands for Really Short (not really, but it is 14 inches shorter than a standard Trooper, which makes it a one-of-800 RS) - up to Jay's 4WD in Rhode Island back in August for a variety of fixes. 

Jay is the guy who brought the truck back to life when I rescued it out of a junkyard in Western Massachusetts in 2020. It has a genuine 55K on the clock and runs great. But, like any major project, you notice a few things still undone after it's on the road for a bit:

  1. Biggest issue was the original starter died in June, and I left the truck sitting for 2 months. Jay swapped that out right away.
  2. The OEM headlight washer system Jay pieced together after I found the parts in the UK had died; turned out the pump had some rust in it and needed re-lubrication.
  3. Vent tube on the diff disintegrated; Jay replaced.
  4. Transmission cooler lines were beginning to succumb to rust and leaking; Jay replaced.
  5. Parking brake cables have never worked so I had the mental bandwidth to add that to the mix this time.
  6. Aftermarket junk DEPO "European" headlights leaked like hell so we put the OEM units back in; Jay smartly re-used the DEPO frames as they weren't rusty like the originals.
  7. Oil/transmission/coolant fluids flushed

And yes, we added another set of Hella 4000s because they just look straight bad-ass.