my B2

[Josh40601]

updates....

 

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actually yes. My F350 is in the body shop right now so I decided to start getting the B2 ready for some wheeling.

The body looked/looks like a raisin... I cant open my doors, my rockers are destroyed....

Now, this is by no means meant to be pretty, marketable, awesome fab work.... its meant to last me the next year of wheeling, and still be able to open doors, and not thrash it again... to hold me over while I obtain a full tube chassis, and then can swap the B2 guts into it, and scrap this thing.

Member here Jake, by the name of endoverend gave me his panels off the rolled ranger. They were in MUCH better shape than mine. I started work tonight on the passenger side. Cut the old destroyed rocker out, replaced it with 2x4" square, welded it into the body, then welded in supports. got the door cut/clearanced and on, got the fender cut up, and on....

I will replicate this on the driver side. I also intend to mount the top of my cab to the roll cage so spread it back out, and support it better.

After that is done, I will be pulling the engine and trans out of the B2 this weekend.

Engine needs and oil pump. Trans needs an oil pump seal, and new tail housing.

While the engine is out, I intend to swap in a better radiator, grafting it into the core support and switching my electric fan from a pusher to a puller. I am also going to cut up the engine x-member to clearance it, and weld it into the frame, as well as a few other support mods. I have air bump cans that I am going to weld it, and make contact areas off the axles.

Pull the front diff cover to reseal it, and paint everything.

 

[Josh40601]

YES!!! I love this thing

 

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I'll be honest, I had no direction when I started building that slider. I'm actually surprised they came out as nice as they did, I thought they were going to look ghetto.

Basically I cut the old rocker out and replaced it with the 2x4 tube.... went to put door on and close it, and it wouldnt close due to the door lip overhang. Cut the lip overhang off, shut door and realized that half the door wasnt protected..... so I stared at it, wondering WTF to do, and had this idea of the "tiny-mini-boatsides"....

Really the only direction I had when I started, was I knew I didn't want to tie the slider in to the frame the traditional way with spreaders headed downward to the frame....these should work out well.

 

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[Josh40601]

Do you have new skins for the driver side?

 

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Do you have new skins for the driver side?

Yep.....and hood

Sent using Jedi mind tricks

 

[-Nathan-]

that's one ugly fawkin truck. Keep it up

 

[Josh40601]

Yep.....and hood

Sent using Jedi mind tricks

Awesome.

 

[kimcrwbr1]

All I could see is a small hammer on the floor in one of the pics a larger hammer will make it easier you know one that takes two hands. (double jack is the tech term)

 

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All I could see is a small hammer on the floor in one of the pics a larger hammer will make it easier you know one that takes two hands. (double jack is the tech term)

make what easier

 

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found some time to get a little more work done today:

 

[RangerBoy94]

This truck is beast!! I love it

 

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thanks.

still have a ton to do but its starting to come together. I'm going to be chopping the core support area out to put a bigger aluminum radiator in, to make room to make my fan a puller.

I'm going to pull the orbital valve off and weld the frame up in that area, clean off all left over bracket parts from when I was coil sprung with my plasma (only so close my cut off wheel could get).

Weld the shock towers to the frame, mount the bumpstop cans.

rip all of the stock wiring out of the driver side of the inner fender. Re run my front brake hard lines, and put on new retainers.

As for the engine, I ordered new headers, new valve springs, roller rockers, and a moates chip.

I'm replacing my hopped up Vision pump for a new PSC pump, supposed to dramatically increase my steering speed.