A steady hand haha. I used to do model cars when I was a kid and had flat white paint and a small brush..

Nope just a good quality paint.

 

Any updates on your truck?

 

Gosh damn man - as mentioned - nice work on all of it, and those hubs are steller !

 

Yes plenty of updates , I should hopefully be able to post them this weekend

 

Awesome!

 

Dang Bryy, looks like you should have started a build thread months ago! I know this was no over night build. Truck is looking good so far, are we even close to where you are today on the build? Great work on the hubs by the way. I think we all have run into problems with the warn hubs.

 

bryy great job. Was fun painting my lock hubs too.
shine up yer valve cover cap, likin mine.

 

Well like I said, A lot has happened since My last post( I really gotta be better about that). I have my dual cases installed, both drive shafts are done, Re doing the interior of the truck, and on my last wheeling trip My motor started knocking and my timing chain guides were gone. so I am in the process of a top end rebuild.

But Since I like pictures here are a few to check out.

Everything is in Arizona south east.

 

OH yeah and difftober treated me well this year, I ordered a v6 arb 5.29 for the rear of my truck from marlin crawler that I am going to put in my Built ifs axle that Ive had ready for months.

 

Well summer was slowly coming to an end the water stopped flowing so there was not much for cliff jumping.

 

This is a very clean and capable rig! I hate that there's so little traffic through this section of the forum, though.. Good stuff!

 

Agreed! the 86-95 seems to be the most popular by a lot.

Bry the trucks looking real good. Are you ever going to do an off road front bumper, like an addicted off road one?

 

Yeah I mean I do plan to build my own bumper with my friends bender and notcher. But to be honest I just don't need one so lockers and other comes first,

I wouldn't survive without my sliders or rear bumper but a front bumper at this point for me just adds weight and is just a look peice.

 

Yeah that makes sense. Everything's on there for a reason!

 

Great pics of the truck in the rocks and stuff. I wish we had landscape like that around here. It's tempting to move someplace just to have places like that to go.

 

Well said. I have been driving with no front bumper for a while myself, same thing, lockers were a priority. Which are in but still working on my compressor set up for locking them. For me a winch is needed So I will eventually get my front bumper built. Thats sure a nice rig. Be interested to see/hear how the V6 rear goes for you. I put one in mine and through careful measuring and marking found I did not have to remove much material at all from the housing. I have read of others using a 4" grinder to do the task, I used a die grinder and carbide straight cutting tool and it went very well. I wanted to remove as little as possible from the sealing area. It would suck to have to pull it apart for a drip. I used non-hardening Permatex and not silicone and am very pleased with zero seepage or leakage. I found that to be a very good gasket maker vrs silicone products ( INMO). Again-nice work

 

nice looking rig! your truck looks alot like my 85 xtra cab! they are build similar too! keep up the good work!

 

Well I have really got moving on this truck no that school is out of session. I build a front bumper.

Went wheeling for my last time in 2 wheel drive since I finally ordered front gears and locker.

Trying to finish the inside of the truck, I have the 3 pillar gauge pod.

And overall just tuning the truck. My ARB compressor went out yesterday so I sent that out to ARB for Warranty.
Here are a couple pictures since everyone likes pictures.

I will say I found out on down travel my tie rod hits the leaf spring, I dont really think there is a fix for that?

 

Awesome build, I'm surprised I hadn't come across it before this! I'm digging the new front bumper, looks great!

 

Well I got a light bar for my truck and got the tabs welded up last night. It dosent fit in the bumper how I thought It would. I guess it just looks big to me, Never had a light bar before so maybe I just need to get used to it.