I just talked to Scotty at addicted offroad and he told me I'm better off to make my own gussets he said vertical welds on the frame will cause it to crack he said just to cut out triangles

 

Diamonds with the bottom edge cut out are better. Just round the edges so nothing pointed is mounted to the frame.

 

Ok perfet thanks Scotty I made triangles but I'll round the edges when I finish on Saturday got one side setup last night and pulled off to weld up and paint

 

I may just be learning about some of this stuff.....but I'm willing to bet some SU-WEEEEEEEET Rock Crawling Pics are in the near future, hmm? lol

Nice, Vance, looking forward to more mind melting welding trio pics and such! haha.

Have a great weekend,

Mark

 

I think these bad boys will look tough
Gussets but I'll round the edges

tacking them up

just a few pictures of them


Mocked up no jack stands supporting

 

Thanks mark and yes hopefully I'll get some good wheeling in soon and get the woman to take some good pictures

 

Well went wheeling last weekend and toasted my clutch and still haven't finished the rock sliders so have some work to go but will be slow going for a bit all money is going to moving into a bigger place bur I'll keep you all updated.

 

 

BUSHWACK THAT BEAST, BABY! LOL. Dang, that thing's a beast, brother! I sure hope to have the extra cash to one day have a more Hard Core Trail rig...but I'm happy for now, lol.

Have fun, Vance! DANG, to think that truck is the same one in the first pics when you brought it home! hahahaha

 

Yea In The bottom pick my Tires were rubbing those trees to get through it was as tight as a virgin on prom night. And I'm sure you'll have the money just start planning now and saving so far I'm only like 3500 dollars out and that's I cluding the price of the truck

 

Did you use the 4" kit? Do you think you could have used the 3" and been fine with the 37/14's?

 

Yes I used the 4 inch kit but I still have some firewall rubbing issues at full stuff that I'm trying to work out but I've heard of slot of people doing the 3 inch kit with a 2 inch body lift and then an engine tranny lift so I'm not sure just how you set it up I guess I'm gunna try a little longer shackle on my front and see if that foxes my rubbing I'll let ya know how it goes

 

Ok, but if it doesn't climb over a VW, I'll be disappointed! hahaha. Jk, Best wishes on the next phase, Vance!

 

Is the this the mill creek wheeling you were talking about?

 

The rock was larrys property the trees were mill creek we were running out of time and I killed my clutch so the exploring got shortene but we need to go soon and see what we can Find before all the national forrest gets shut down when they open the two new ohv parks

 

Do you still have the Rancho kit? I know a guy who is looking to make a "long travel" Rancho Gen II and needs the pivot brackets and centerlink.

 

No a local guy was making a dune 4 runner and has been looking for one of these kits for a long while so I sold it to him

 

 

poser! lol

 

True, but my eyes are still green.....