nice air man lol, sweet truck

 

Fender's are from Mcneil Racing. Passenger side went on flawlessly but the driver side i had to haggle with a little to get them to line up. Been holding up great since I've gotten them in May.

Towing her down to chorpus to South Texas 4x4 on Thursday. She'll be going under the knife friday morning. Along with getting the front fixed and a custom bash plate she'll also be getting some addicted off-road sliders and rear bumper if they make it to the shop on time. Pray for her.

 

good luck. looks like a nice set of armor is being added

 

Update: She's finally fixed and drives just like she did before. No pulling or wobbling. Ordered a spanner wrench so I can adjust my coil-overs but until then she won't see anything crazy. Used a jack and some heat to straighten everything back out. Lance at South Texas 4x4 did a great job and I honestly think if it wasn't for him no one else would have touched it. Also added trail gear sliders and a rear bumper while I was at it.
















Here she is already back on her feet enjoying the outdoors

 

Painted the sliders and the rear bumper yesterday.

 

Just a little update, went to discount tire co. and received two new rear bf's since one had a nail and the other had a sidewall puncture from a tree stump and they were covered under road hazard warranty. Also went to wheeltoberfest this past weekend and had a blast. Lot's of FJ's. Next mod will def be a locker after trying to rockcrawl with open diff. I'm looking at the yukon grizzly locker.

 

Should be getting the following very soon for my rear suspension.

Deaver f67's
King bypasses
Total Chaos 12"shackles
Bed cage for the shocks
Possibly a yukon grizzly locker if i have enough left

Plan to mount the shackles above the frame but still don't know how I'm going to go about designing the bed cage.

 

glad you got it all fixed up. truck looks good and future mods = some awesome jumping pix

 

Went out to Amarillo on Sunday with some friends to hit up some trails. Only thing I broke was an idler arm. Sheared the bolt in half. Quick trip to autozone and 50 dollars later I was back on the road. Got some video of me hitting the whoops but I'm still waiting for my friend to upload it. In the mean time here are some pictures.

 

Nice ride!

 

the trail looked like fun. truck looks really good.

 

I felt more at home on the river bottom then on the rocks but she kept up with the fj and the cherokee on the rocks and then bombed the river bottom afterwards. Still waiting on my friend to upload the vid (roll eyes)

 

Look'n great man, Love the rear bumper and sliders!!!!

 

Finally some vids of her in action. Really need to do something about the rear.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video....52450111469988

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=252451978136468

http://www.facebook.com/video/video....52454068136259

http://www.facebook.com/video/video....52454784802854

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the vids dont work because they are probably set to private

 

EDIT: Don't know how to embed Facebook Videos so I just took a video of it on my computer. Sorry for no sound. I'll have to get a thumb drive and get the original file from my friend. In the mean time..

 

What I plan on doing for the rear. Don't know if I want such a complicated bedcage because I'd like to keep my stock bed.

http://giantmotorsports.com/content/view/41/51/

 

Truck looks sweet and it seems like you have some nice solid plans for the future to compliment what you've already done!

You might already know but I wanted to point it out just in case... The shock setup on that toyota above from Giant won't work on your truck. I'm going out on a limb here and assuming you've got the stock rear axle? If so, you won't have enough room between the tire and the frame rail to fit a shock. The shocks will have to be mounted inboard of the frame rails. Not a big deal though and it'll still work great on both the rocks and at speed. That guy is able to fit the shocks out there cause he's running a wider rear axle then stock.

Here's the best 2 pictures I could find to show you... In this first one, notice how close the tires are to the frame rail.



And then this one as you know the leafs are directly under the frame rail. You can see how close they mount to the tires. Here you can also see how I had my shocks inboard of the leaf springs. These are the 62" deavers with 18" sway a way shocks and shocks mounted above the frame rail like you mentioned. (figured you'd maybe be interested in pictures...)

Cool build man!!!

 

Pictures of sheared bolt on idler arm.

 

Wow, thanks for bringing this up as it didn't even cross my mind. I do have the stock rear end on it and it seems as I will have to mount the shocks inside the frame in order for the kit to work. Was contemplating a t-100 rear axle as with it i could mount the shocks outside the frame and it would match the track with the front. Anyways, thanks for bringing this to my attention as i had no idea.