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Military Mazda B4000 Bulls Build


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Military Mazda - DD & 4x4 WARNING 56k!

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1998 Mazda B4000 4x4 paid 5440$ for it. since then i certified it, painted it, lifted it and got some tires for the time being! the truck had 163 000km and 4x4 was not in working order. Plans for this truck is to be a more reliable Daily Driver, Off road & tow rig. current upgrades are 3Link Panhard dana60 Front on FoA Coil Overs, 4Link Triangulated Sterling 10.25 on coils, 38.5"Tractor Tires . Future Upgrades are BW1350-54 Doubler, Winchs, random stuff.
Work Being done by www.nickel4x4.com Located in Capreol Ontario, Canada



Fixing the Truck for the first time!





Body work to make it look more like a Ranger, and removing any rust and getting ready for paint!




Rugged Ridge AVM Locking Hubs Fixed my Crap Pulse Vacuum Locking ones



3" Body Lift & 33'' Tires


Painted Army Green




Interior / Sub




My Truck at Ni4x4 Getting ready for the 3link Panhard Dana60 Coil Over SAS and Jeep Coil'd Sterling 10.25 Swap, Roll cage & Bumpers.

38.5/11/16 TSL Super Swamper Boggers




D60 & F.o.A Coil-overs




Front Baja Skid plate tube bumper (subject to change)


Maybe Angry Eyes of some sort for protection of tree's!


Roll Cage




Rear Tube Bumper(sudject to change)


Bobbed Bed(New Paint on its way)


Did awesome on its first test drive!






Built by Nickel 4x4 Capreol Ont, Canada by Sam Harriman www.nickel4x4.com
 
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Kyle M.

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Wow, lookin good.
 

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i hope some gusseting is planned for the front panhard bar mount...looks good though
 

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it is easier to fix and understand than "her"
thats gonna be your daily?
 

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well street able soo i can go to point A and B. not with tractor tires... lol unless i lived in Alaska lol ill have 265's on it for a while and for street ability.
 

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Looks great! Keep us updated...


Note: I want rear discs so badly...


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i don't even wanna know how much money you're dumping into this thing lmao
 

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i would really like to know how much a shop charged for all that fab work
 

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around 4100$ in parts. 10000$ Shopcharge. but i did some work for the owner of the shop, so no shop charge only material!

Visit www.nickel4x4.com
 
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around 4100$ in parts. 10000$ Shopcharge. but i did some work for the owner of the shop, so no shop charge only material!
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is the upper link bar on the front cut and welded back togather???
 

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Looks like that. Personally, if it were me doing it and I had a shop, I'd have thrown it in the bender if I needed the clearance. Just me though!
 

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im not sure if its cut and welded. but thats still strong...
 

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its deffinantly not bent, i would be doing alot of gusseting on it...im not hateing on your build just trying to help
 

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