1-Ton of fun

[Josh40601]

lookin good man!

 

[88_Eddie]

lookin good man!

i will concur with this mans statement

 

[CheapThrillB2]

 

[Josh40601]

hell yea man! You're still putting the EB skins back on right?

 

[Jim Henderson]

Awesome stuff , I just went through this front to back ,,,,,, a hell of a ride !!!

 

[CheapThrillB2]

Yes. EB skins and EB dash

 

[Josh40601]

frickin awesome

 

[RangerSVT]

When you think those will be going in?

SVT

 

[CheapThrillB2]

Saturday

 

[RangerSVT]

Sweet, can't wait to see how it turns out...

SVT

 

[Robert_1967]

about how much longer before we get pictures of it hanging by 3 wheels on boulders and rocks????




Robert




posted with a copy of Wheelers Dealers, and chrome polish.

 

[CheapThrillB2]

Saturday lol.

 

[CheapThrillB2]

 

[CheapThrillB2]

I need to go through all the wiring and clean it up, Mount lights, pull the skid plate and clean it, still need to build a engine skid, new rear drive shaft, brakes, remount all the floor panels etc so they don't rattle, build side panels, spare tire mount, twin stick it, mount a tach, replace temp gauge cause my current one doesn't seem to work, get different fenders to clean up the look, from bp stops to protect the ram and figure out why my steering was getting stiffer the longer I ran it (assuming I still have air in it).


But ya know what, I drove the fawker, it wheeled great fresh out of the box. Up until showing up to rocks and valleys I had only driven it from garage to trailer 2o yds. Then off the trailer at work and into my shop to fawk with brakes, then to rocks and valleys. Where the wife drove it and drove it hard lol. She even jumped it on the long crawl. I did't even set the timing in the motor, must of got it close when I replaced the distributor. I did build my rear drive shaft to short, problem with putting in 18 hrs then trying to measure and build something. So I had to severely limit my rear center down travel. Which cost me quite a bit. My first stuck, which I don't think would of been had my axle been able to drop down further. What you can't see is all the big ass logs under my axles and skid plate holding me up.

I can't say enough good things about the ori's. They felt so smooth and stable on the trails and rocks. and I don't even have them close to dialed in and pressures right. Hell I am not even sure where the pressure even are.


I didnt wanna try and load it in the box truck with no brakes at 6 am this morning and not knowing if it fit inside or not. I am gonna try and load it today and see if it fits. I brought the explorer home from work the other day in the box truck. Didn't feel to bad going down the road.

Used the explorer to take the buggy to rocks and valleys. 60 on surface rds and 65 highway with the cruise set and overdrive off. Averaged 10.5 mpg. Didn't think that was to bad given the weight and higher rpms with not running overdrive. I really should of installed my brake controller though. Stopping was interesting. Lots of lead room and anticipation of what the idiots in front of me were doing.

 

[CheapThrillB2]

Yesterday a few of us went to Rocks and valleys for a powder puff little comp for our wives and female friends, it was also to spend the day wheeling to remember our friend Collin.

Here is part of my wife's run from the beginning of long crawl.
http://s31.photobucket.com/user/cheapthrillb2/media/VID_20130525_162113_231_zps901e0385.mp4.html