Recent content by hackster

Holy Orbital valve...... When you are building something that is this compact you really have to think outside the box. I have to see how tight this frontend is in person. Mounts look top notch on the cooler and the battery James. I know just how much time the small stuff takes. I like...

Well, things went well..... Onto the pics. New trail ready HD wheels with wide Rock Rings. Aside from the wheels being a pain to mount with the deep flange, they are awesome. The offset was about perfect. I ended up with just the right width on the axle wheel tire combo and...

So I got my warn winch yesterday. Its a new old stock m9000. However it just did not fit in the bumper at all. I had to add some plate onto the back of the tray, notch it out and cut some access holes in the bottom to get to the bolts. It ended up fitting quite nicely though and tucks in...

Got home from Seattle with a few hours still left in the day so i headed out to the garage. I really couldnt stand how the rear crossmember on the frame turned out so out with the plasma and 5 minutes later I was in fab mode building a new rear crossmember with some led taillights flush mounted...

Thanks Alan... Its been too long since we have gotten together. Let me know when you get your new rig done and we'll get together for some wheelin. Tom, I am torn on the storage in the rear. The last truck I ran a storage box on the bed, but never really liked how utilitarian it looked. I...

Wheres some updated pics of this thing Todd? I know that he has to have made some progress on this since Thanksgiving. Buggy is looking awesome, cant wait to see it out on the trail once the weather gets um, less wet. As always, impressive work James. Sean:beer:

So I was able to get some work done on the truck before we headed up to Seattle for the holiday. I finished up all of the tube work for the back and started on the panels for the "fenders". Five of the six were pretty easy, but the 6th panel that is on two planes and needs to fit around the...

Yeah I thought that would be the case but I figured it wouldnt hurt to ask. I got the bracket for the current filler built up and burned in last night....I am certainly not going to keep it though, I need something more race inspired than what I have on there now. Anyone got any suggestions...

I am not really following you on the large turning radius..... It steers lock to lock with ease, will steer farther when I pull the stops out too. I have seen a couple of other rigs setup with the same style setup and they have no problem. If I run into any issues at all, I will lengthen...

Well, I got some more tube after work and grabbed one of my new 37's so that I could get rolling on the rest of the flatbed. This is the second round of fenders, the first version was flat similar to the all pro but it was just all wrong. I added the kick down in the front and it looks much...

Well since the damn wheels are still on backorder with Trail ready, I did my best to stay busy with other stuff. I built a pretty sweet center console for my First Gen cummins on Friday and messed around with the dodge most of the day Saturday. Also got my broken canopy window replaced with...

We also got the brakes bled, fixed a leak or two and I started on the front bumper. Here a few shots of the bumper from yesterday. I ran out of shielding gas yesterday so I was only able to get some tacks on to hold **** together. I finished up the bumper tonight and added some gussets to it...

A bit of progress this weekend. I got the exhaust all wrapped up. I ordered this little Magnaflow Cat in from my local parts shop. When it showed up it was the perfect size. I had to get a little creative with the flanges, but it turned out great. I spent a little bit of time trying to...

Well, Sunday I made pretty good progress. I got the transmission and transfercase installed, cut the holes in the floor for the new shift and transfercase levers. I had snagged a transfercase crossmember from my buddies at the cruiser shop that they werent using. It is a FROR style that mounts...

Swapped over the spring pin and bolted in the new axle with a new ubolt flip kit. Set it down on the leafs to find out that it was really really low. I had some longer shackles from an old truck, that I threw on with a little bit of work. It raised the rear some, but I think I will need to...