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It's probably because I know nothing about them, but that thing looks very wheelable to me.:wtf:
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Its on the banner occasionally. That thing wheeled very very well.
 
When I bought this rig I just bought it to have some thing to wheel while my rig is getting built and after buying this I feel confident I can built my rig myself I'll get to my rig later

OK so the plan was to get the front end straighted out. The way I bought it the axle was shifted 2" to the passenger side and 1" forward on the drivers side. The paint rubbed off on the out board link told me the tire was hitting the link and turns it pushing the axle forward and to the passenger side. I got the front end dialed in and then adjusted the hydraulic ram to try and get the tire to stop rubbing the link because it steered more to the left. I got it adjusted as best as its going to get it still hits I'm thinking about adding wheel spacers to fix it which will bring the width to 82" I'll just have to pay attention when steering to the left no big deal with the rear steer I'm thinking about adding a pan hard bar but don't no if there's room between the axle and frame. I"ll try flexing it when it's back together.

The rig came with red bead lock clamps that had been painted a couple times I already had two trail ready bead clamp that have been hanging on the wall for the last couple years so I went to trail ready and got two more and bolted those on this is the end of day one 11/3

I don't have any pictures of before I started taking it apart because of dead battery's in the camera so the photos I posted are after I replaced the bead clamps. And took off the hood, roof and side panels which will all be replaced
 
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Day two Saturday 11/4 involved taking off the hood ,roof, side panels, seats and winch and pressure washing the rig inside and out. I went to olympic 4x and got a new hood It had a good size dent on the corner but one dent is better than the hood that was on the rig when I bought it.
Off to napa from oly 4x to pick out the paint colors.

Saturday night I started sanding down the tube. Some of you might wonder why waist my time sanding the thing down and painting it when I'm just going to fawk it all up any way. And the answer to that is the rig I bought was some one Else's well known in the wheeling community. I want this rig to feel more like my rig and be known as my rig when I'm done.
 
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11/9 Thursday I got off work Early got to shop to find the filler tool for the fox 2.0 nitrogen shocks I'd ordered on 11/3. So I started by taking off the fuel cell which I'd drained the night before. Then I got down to finishing the sanding for the most part at this point I'd say I got about 95% of the tube sanded. Finished off the after noon taking out the dash which I was procrastinating on doing it wasn't that bad taking it out I prepped the dash and sprayed 2 coat of high build primer sanded it out with some 600 grit sand paper and sprayed on the color. At this point I gave up for the day went home got home just to have with drawls so back to the shop I went I did a little web wheeling and then got back to work I brought my respirator with me time for some primer I got the upper half of the cage primed with 1 good coat of high build primer and called it quits for the day

11/10 Friday got the day off from work payed :cool: get paid to work on my rig. I went to Lowe's and bought some cutting wheels and sand paper to finish up the sanding of the tube all that was left was where I could not get with the DA or wire wheel got to the shop around 7:00 AM more sanding about an hours worth. Then went to installing the bigger gas tank that came with the rig when I bought it. Drilled two holes about 1/2" above the top holes for the original mount pretty easy one more thing out of the way. The winch rope on the rig was in pretty bad shape with no hook on the end so I drove up to master pull in bellingham and got some new winch rope. 2 1/2 hours later back to work. On the rear of the rig there was some sheet metal triangles with the brake lites and two other holes I'm trying to rid this rig of the all the holes they had a theme going with all the holes that where cut in this thing. So I cut those out to be replaced with a smaller triangle with just the brake lites installed in them. My friend Tim one of the owner's of the shop I'm working out of has been helping me as much as he can so when I was in bellingham he cut out the front plate that the fair lead is bolted to again more holes = got to go. Tim then cut out the new plate I finished it by drilling the holes for the fair lead and the slot for the rope to go throw. Quit for the day
 
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That rig was like riding on top of a slinky, you may want to stiffen it up somehow?
maybe stiffer swaybars or add some
 
roccrawler said:
That rig was like riding on top of a slinky, you may want to stiffen it up somehow?
maybe stiffer swaybars or add some
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yeah I was think about adding antirock sway bars I defiantly have to address this issue
 
tclong said:
yeah I was think about adding antirock sway bars I defiantly have to address this issue
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Dont use the antirock there to soft, call S&N and get some good ones for it
 

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