Well i was out wheelin tonight and started climbing a hill. made one run up in first and almost made it. tried second run, went about half up the hill shifted to second and failed to make it again. at this point i noticed i have lost all brakes. thinking i had brakes i took truck out of gear. so as i started going down the hill side filled with trees thinking in my head" oh S*** OH S****". went about 40yards and slammed into a tree. demolishing my whole back frame as well as bending the drive shaft. i began my journey back home. thank god my trails are only right over the hill. i am now lefted with a mangled yota. i wanna do something like a "truggy" some will say. im not interested in 4 link just yet" no cash" although when i post pics alot will say it would probably be easier. i wanna do just a custom frame from mid cab back. i have stock suspension IFS. i wanna stick with that for now. but was wandering if anybody had any ideas on back half of frame. any ideas or pics will be helpfull. also somewhat new to forums so please bare with me.

 

 

the aftermath of the impact!!

 

thinking of doing a dual tube rear frame. my buddy has some decent size gas well tubing. thinking of shortening wheel base" tired of getting high centered" tips on cutting drive shaft? will ost pics of back half cut off soon and tube mached up. garage getting new floor !!!!!

 

well got truck jacked up in garage today gonna start cutting frame off and maching up new one. just picked up some 33's and rims ya buddy

 

Damn...destroyyyyyed

 

ya i hit pretty hard ha. trying to get her back together soon for our 4wheeling event in march!!

 

By the looks of it, it would just be cheaper to buy a new rig an salvage what you can. But that's coming from a noob who doesn't have a cutter, welder or shop

 

Dont think the frame is supposed to look like that. just kidding, Doing a frame swap isnt bad at all. If interested I can post how I do it. I have to pull the motor and tranny and that is alot of the steps out of the way. Basically all you would have left is the 6 cab bolts, brake, clutch lines and parking brake line.

 

that was roling around my mind to do a frame swap but just got laid off so money is real tight. my buddy had a 2wd chevy with 8ft bed. he was scraping the truck so i cut off his frame behind the cab. unbotlted my rear end and his frame is a lil too wide. planes were too take bout three inches out and weld her back up and weld to my frame and reinforce it i throw some pics up here soon

 

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Excited to watch you polish this turd right up

 

has as am i. im tired of watching everyone wheeling and i cant

 

well weather lately has been really bi-polar warm one day snowing next. frame mached up last night and bolted to rear end. now just gotta weld it up and throw some cross member back in and i should be up and running. i wanna pull front diff out an lincoln lock her. rear end is already locked. one day when i actually have money ill four link and dual t-cases. for now its my weekend warrior that suprises the s*** out out of me everytime i take it out lol

 

Subscribed. Interested in seeing this. That was pretty mangled.

 

oh yes it was bad i still cant belive i was able to drive her home i still had to go threw trails to get out. she shook a lil at 10mph

 

well after a long two weekends of drinking to celebrate my birthday finally going get back to work on buggy. few things left to finish before shes trail ready! gonna start on welding frame to frame tomorrow. Im using chevy 63in springs so Im hoping it'll have some decent flex in the back(hopefully). Im going to try to make some type of flat bed after. i have tons of quad crate metal. various pieces of 1/8th in thick square tubing. ill throw some pictures up tomorrow after noon some time of the progress

 

Damn dude, hope you werent hurt, Yea they dont like runnung into trees atleast at higher speeds. My truck kicked outta gear one day (ALWAYS USE REVERSE WHEN PARKED) on a manual... and anyways my truck took off out of control down a alley bashing through my neighbors privacy fence and i chased it down almost jumping in the drivers door when in pinched me between the door and a walnut tree, then it hit a bigger walnut tree and stopped.But I fixed it, still drivin it.

 

dam. ya im suprised we werent either. the only thing that hurt me is when we hit the sun visor actualy flew out and hit me in the forhead ha. but after impact i looked at my buddy he looked at me and we just started cracking up. until i seen my frame lol

 

Lot o' work! GL!