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« Reply #100 on: March 18, 2012, 11:09:05 PM » |
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Ahh, nice! for some reason I thought you made a custom arm yourself! I wouldn't have been surprised if you did. lol You keep about as busy as I do!
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« Reply #101 on: March 19, 2012, 08:32:35 AM » |
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yeah but the difference is im dumping money into mine and your making money to dump into yours lol
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« Reply #102 on: March 19, 2012, 10:58:54 AM » |
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It's all a labor of love, though. At least, sometimes it is  . |
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« Reply #103 on: March 26, 2012, 07:52:09 PM » |
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got the 5.38s and arb installed last weekend and got the axle under the truck , waiting on axle shafts and some other parts for final assembly which i hope to have by this weekend  |
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« Reply #104 on: April 08, 2012, 01:22:08 PM » |
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finally got all four wheels back on the ground specs shaved high pinion D60 35 spline 4340 inners and outers with yukon drive flanges , arb and 5.38's with a 1350 x 1410 driveshaft double sheer steering with 7/8's heims and 8" psc ram 11-1/2 inches of clearance from ground to the bottom of the diff air down     |
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« Reply #105 on: April 12, 2012, 10:35:54 PM » |
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with a roll cage goin in the seats i had in the truck sat a little to high here is one of the new seats with custom seat mounts i made up which lowered the seats about an 1-1/2"    |
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« Reply #106 on: April 13, 2012, 05:57:23 PM » |
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Looks ready for some serious wheeling! I like it.
Did you make a custom pitman arm? I know Steevo is working on one.
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« Reply #107 on: April 13, 2012, 08:05:14 PM » |
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yeah i did , i was talking to him about a month ago about it and his was goin to come up a little higher than what i wanted to run cause i didnt want to cut out the track bar mount on the frame side and make a new one
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« Reply #108 on: May 02, 2012, 10:01:00 PM » |
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« Reply #109 on: May 02, 2012, 10:01:39 PM » |
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« Reply #109 on: May 02, 2012, 10:01:39 PM » |
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« Reply #110 on: May 02, 2012, 10:29:43 PM » |
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Looks great. I like those seats a lot too.
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« Reply #111 on: May 11, 2012, 02:29:00 PM » |
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not the best lookin headliner but definitely helped with the noise  also added a suck down winch  |
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« Reply #112 on: June 04, 2012, 08:03:51 PM » |
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well i hope i dont break this truss haha  doin some surgery on the bed so i can fit some bigger tires mocked up then need to clean up the tubing a bit and paint , also moved the axle back about 2"  |
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« Reply #113 on: June 21, 2012, 07:40:15 PM » |
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new tires goin on , working on some beadlocks 38.5x14.5x16 maxxis creepy crawlers   |
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« Reply #114 on: June 22, 2012, 01:00:14 PM » |
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beadlock some steelies or buying some?
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« Reply #115 on: June 22, 2012, 06:58:21 PM » |
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steelies are way to heavy at 47lbs a piece , im waiting to hear back from Gator on N4w about some american eagle alloys he has then ill have him ship those to omf to get beadlocked
if i dont get those ill probably go with champions
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« Reply #116 on: July 06, 2012, 04:30:14 PM » |
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What'd you end up doing with the maxxis tires?
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« Reply #117 on: July 09, 2012, 05:50:45 PM » |
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still have them , didn't seem like there was any interest in them so ill just keep them
just need to figure out if i want to run beadlocks or just rims
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« Reply #118 on: July 09, 2012, 08:51:30 PM » |
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just get beadlocks... you know you're going to end up with them eventually anyways..
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« Reply #119 on: July 09, 2012, 09:02:40 PM » |
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yeah but not many brands of tires run 16's thats why im debating the beadlocks right now
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« Reply #120 on: July 10, 2012, 08:20:25 AM » |
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ah yeah that makes sense.
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« Reply #121 on: July 11, 2012, 06:01:17 PM » |
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well i found an awesome deal thru poly performance , set of trail ready beadlocks for $1398 shipped
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« Reply #122 on: July 11, 2012, 06:45:41 PM » |
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how much do they weight vs the allied steelies?
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« Reply #123 on: July 11, 2012, 07:31:31 PM » |
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they are about 14lbs lighter than the steel beadlocks
these weigh around 33lbs steelies are 47lbs
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« Reply #124 on: July 12, 2012, 07:50:50 PM » |
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i may paint the wheel black and leave the rock ring or paint the rock ring and leave the wheel , not sure  |
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