Late night fab

nowires · Apr 23, 2009

Here is goes. The truck last time out had a little difficulty with a couple things and so I pulled it into the shop to think about what I was going to do. The main goal was to lower the truck a couple of inches. Seams easy. Well not really, So after many hours of sitting there going over different ideas and the plusses and minuses of the idea. I went for it. First was the frame tubes. I use to have a tube welded to the bottom of the frame
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Then the drive lines were almost bottomed out so I built a new transfer case cross member and ended up with almost flat across the bottom of the frame 1.5 inches drop off the bottom of the frame
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Then the front axle, I moved it forward 1

Darby1 · Apr 23, 2009

Strong work man! A little lower is a good plan. Truck is looking good :awesomework:

crash2 · Apr 23, 2009

Right on Charlie :awesomework:

slednecks1124 · Apr 23, 2009

Those the wheels & tires I sold you awhile back??

nowires · Apr 23, 2009

slednecks1124 said:
Those the wheels & tires I sold you awhile back??

Umm ya I think. Did we meet in North bend

Jay Luke · Apr 23, 2009

nice work.:awesomework:

nowires · Apr 23, 2009

Shifters are in and the wiring cleaned up on the inside
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nowires · Jun 16, 2009

DIY bead locks installed
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85b2man · Jun 16, 2009

were did you order the bead locks from ?

nowires · Jun 17, 2009

85b2man said:
were did you order the bead locks from ?

Rhino on the board here
It is a great product. They come in 2 halfs that you have to weld together to make the full ring, But that is easy. They are really nice product, 1/4" inner and 5/16 outer

nowires · Sep 3, 2009

I'm back

Parts arriving daily, I am so pumped

Ed Bister · Sep 3, 2009

r u goin going be out at reiter this weekend? Lets go run a couple trails together! If i see ya i will flag ya down! good work bud!:awesomework:

nowires · Sep 4, 2009

Yep I have some people comming by to pick up some stuff and then I am going to come down and run for a couple of hours

nowires · Sep 10, 2009

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Off to the shop I go

85b2man · Sep 11, 2009

nowires said:
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Off to the shop I go

SICK charlie those things are gonna FLEXXX lol :awesomework:

slednecks1124 · Sep 11, 2009

Yeha i was the one who met you in north bend with my buddy.

Truck is lookin good man! :awesomework:

nowires · Oct 8, 2009

So I finally took the trek to see my truck

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I think it is going to end up with a 110 wheel base
19 to 20" belly
70" over all height

Just wanted to give ya a little sneek peek

Darby1 · Oct 8, 2009

Very cool Charlie! I just got my truck put back together, looking forward to seeing you out on the trail. Looks like yours should be alot more capable after this latest incarnation. Was cool before, now your

Rhino1 · Oct 8, 2009

nowires said:
Rhino on the board here
It is a great product. They come in 2 halfs that you have to weld together to make the full ring, But that is easy. They are really nice product, 1/4" inner and 5/16 outer

Nice to see a picture of the finished product.

Glad they worked out for ya.

Hopefully I will get up there to wheel with ya one of these days. :beer:

nowires · Oct 8, 2009

Darby said:
Very cool Charlie! I just got my truck put back together, looking forward to seeing you out on the trail. Looks like yours should be alot more capable after this latest incarnation. Was cool before, now your

I can't wait to see it next week and bring my camera to get more pics. Darius work is just pure art.