Finally....Da new rig..

[oddball94]

oh man but i think axles would help lol what are you gonna run?

 

[KarlVP]

***ty sprinkles. Glad to see this project gaining traction.

 

[Zoediak]

Great work so far Crash!! Looking forward to your progress!

on your donor truck, what xfer case is in that?? does it have the 4 buttons on the dash for the shift controls??

I ask, because I need one for my '01 blazer, that and the TCC module inside the kickpanel on the pass side...


just curious if it (xfer case etc) was up for sale so I could get mine back on the road...

need to do some much needed love to my truck, but need a rig to drive in the mean time...

 

[crash2]

Great work so far Crash!! Looking forward to your progress!

on your donor truck, what xfer case is in that?? does it have the 4 buttons on the dash for the shift controls??

I ask, because I need one for my '01 blazer, that and the TCC module inside the kickpanel on the pass side...


just curious if it (xfer case etc) was up for sale so I could get mine back on the road...

need to do some much needed love to my truck, but need a rig to drive in the mean time...

It left on saturday :D

So I made out pretty good. for what I sold my old tbi, cost of the truck and selling off the truck I am ahead $100 :D

 

[crash2]

MY new headers showed up finally (back order). I decided to go ahead and replace them since the early headers don't work on the vortec motor without notching the flange on the top side.

 

[crash2]

So next I decided to go ahead and get the housings prepped. My original plan was to strip both housings of the brackets since they were so hammered and I am really thinking of going double ended ram on the steering.

One thing I love about the Pro-rocks is the suspension bridge--noo welding needed to the cast. To remove the bridge I had to cut the 1/2" plate for the old steering ram.

 

[crash2]

Looks brand new again....

 

[crash2]

Got the front housing all stripped.

 

[crash2]

Time for the rear....

 

[crash2]

Like the front I cut the nec items to remove the bridge and again cleaned it and the whole rear housing of the brackets. I left the brake caliper brackets on for now and more than likely I will be redoing them to roll the caliper down.

 

[crash2]

Got the diffs lifted up and onto the table. I had to make holding fixtures for the diffs so they would stay in place,lol..

getting close to GO TIME,

 

[crash2]

I got this a couple months ago to replace my worn out pro-tool notcher. Figured it was time to make the mount for it.

 

[crash2]

Time to get this show on the road.

Like I had stated the bottom or "sled" was going to be strongly based off the S&N Bravo 2 chassis. First I had ALWAYS admired its design and the second awsome part is the fact I have all the jigs to aid me in doing so..

So after looking over man pictures and going up and measuring on it was time to jump into it.

I simply started by getting the skid roughed into place and getting the side jigs in place. Over the course of from this picture to the down the road I think I moved them around like 14 times,lol...

 

[crash2]

I will say I am not super fast at this and I have messed up a couple bends but I do like to be as precise as I can--probably overly picky but I do like to be spot on.

 

[crash2]

The skid plate is slowly taking on some shape....

 

[crash2]

So one thing I found was the lower tube was too short which actually turned out to be a good thing. So I remade the front half of it and I sleeved the whole lower tube. Since that section of tube takes a good brunt of the beating I figured it wouldn't hurt to beef it up a bit.

 

[crash2]

Since the lower tube was done went to the upper part.

 

[crash2]

And the sled is done. Its hard to tell but I really pushed the front tube out an did this for a reason that I will go back to once the rest of the chassis is done. Feels good after over a week of work to have something...

 

[dickwart]

Needs more triangulation... Oh wait, this isn't Pirate4x4...

 

[Hip]

:cheer: kinda fun huh...

 

[NOISYBOY]

Nice start looking forward to the end result :corn:

 

[crash2]

I have a habit of stopping about once a week and just cleaning up the whole shop or as I like to call it a reboot. Everything gets put away and stuff organized.

 

[crash2]

So I got both axles set into place and squared up.

 

[crash2]

These have been sitting in a box for months just waiting to be used. My old rig ran QA1 5/8" hiems. After a few runs they would loosen up and not long after that they turned into a clattering mess--drove me nuts.

These are 7/8 ruffstuff hiems.

 

[crash2]

One thing I was contemplating was ditching the argo single ended ram and going with something better. This showed up and ruffstuff had there year end sale and ordered up hiems for it.

 

[crash2]

So I had a bunch of brackets cut but the ones at the skid I had to make for the links.

The links are my new line of ultra strong white aluminum---10x stronger than anything on the planet :redneck:

So I started with the lowers.

 

[crash2]

So with the tabs tacked in place I made a jig to mark the holes for the upper links. Once marked I pulled the skid. I pulled it by hand and barely got it out of the chassis due to weight and no foot holds.

So I burned everything together and got smart and used the engine hoist to place it back.

 

[crash2]

Here is a little trick I use when needed on the tabs. I always weld the outside on the tab and then the inside and typically pulls the tab out and bacck in and once in a while its in by 1/64" and when it is I use this trick. Sure you can beat it with a hammer but they tends to bend the outer edge where this trick pushes the whole tab--works really good.

 

[Clark]

Looks awesome Mike! Bravo! :redneck:

 

[Hampton]

That's one hell of a skid!