fu exploder

lets try this


Picked her up on friday


by sat night

Looks cool...any story or details?

Basicly, I'm heading up a team, well, I am the team with 2 other guys who'll be showing up on race day, that's building a cheap truck challange truck for a competition in july. The comp is being put on by canadian 4x4 magazine. The rules are simple. $1500 max coin into it, no borrowing from your other truck or loaners. And you have to take it back out when done. I'm inot mine for about $20 so far. I have a pair of dodge axles going into it, a front d60 and a rear d80 both with 3.54 gears. Not great, but free is free. Both axles are being setup with a mirrored one link setup which will be anchored to a bolt in crossmember which will double as a re3ar tranny mount. I had a 460 lined up to drop in as well but the guy I'm getting it from is semi employed right now and doesn't want to spend the coin on his new motor so I can have the old one right now, so it looks like I'm putting in a 5.8 for right now. I have a zf5 behind that followed by a dual 1356 tcase setup that I built for another project that then whent a different dirrection. I have a set of 44" ground hawgs that I've had forever and will be running when street driving and a set of 42" tractor tires for the comp, again, free.

I'm designing this so that when I roll, not if, and the body is destroyed I can just go get another one, unbolt and reinstall my good stuff on the new one. The first snag, the guy I got this one off of is a bit of a buisy boy right now. His wife is poppin out her first kid and I know that's stressfull ect. He promised me that he'ld have the papers for me over a week ago. Nothing against him, but I'm not building a truck up when I don't have papers for it. I've been down that road before and I am not doing that again. If it's not 100% legaly mine, sorry, but it's going to scrap tommorow. Don't worry though, I'm picking up a white one about an hour after that one is off the deck. The white one already has no motor or rear end, so no real time loss, just agrivation. Whitty's interior is kinda beat, but today I'm pulling the first's interior, doors and other selected sheet metal for spares.

Fortunatly I'm working part time, sortof, right now so I can get this thing done as well as getting my crane/deck truck done as well. Can't wait for the wife tostart in about redoing the roof this year.

Wow, Defiantly keep us posted on them pix man!

bad ass... show us more...

And no papers arrived, so running out of time, she had to go. Bin down that road, not going there again.



And another freebbee






And she's home, with papers, and a very pretty set of rims.

i personally woulda stripped out that other sploder more

wrecking-crew said:

i personally woulda stripped out that other sploder more

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Why? I have another one already lined up after this one, and a budy of mine has 6 that I can have at a moments notice with a flat o beer.

This weekend we should have the arms built and hopefully the new motor in.

Right on! I can't wait for this event, gonna be a hoot to see what everyone's built! Good luck, my money's on the mighty exploder!

Got pissed about the piddling around and with a couple free days in the shop, followed the german blitzkrieg methodollogy and attacked full force. 3 days from pretty much bone stock, just stripped out and naked.

"new shoes"



Starting the new support structure.



New front axle. Nuttin like puting a dodge in a ford.



Front axle at full stuff. Just clears everything with the axle tube in front of the factory saddle.



Still more droop possible, but not realisticly.



front wishbone almost done. The box is for the driveshaft. It was planned.



actually sitting with the weight on the springs.not sure about the final ride hight, but there's no motor in at this point. the upper spring mounts will probably be one of the last things I do so I don't have to mess with my spriings. I have 6" lift springs from a 70's f150. If I do it right, I should be able to put some stockers back in her with some smaller, 37"s and be almost legal.





I love my cranes.



Don't think I was this proud when my kids were born.



springs needed to be out and a few other things to get her mobil, at least trailerable.

must be rough working in a shop like that....Now I want some action shots

Rear suspension all done. Just need to add shocks.








Just finished these today as well.



Not a lot left, but not much time either. Madin trip 10 days.

Dropped the boddy back on. Needed to compact the space I was talking up and needed to set the ride height with weight on her. Rear is at ride height and front is pretty close.

awesome build man