Crawlin's Build Thread

[pickuptrucker]

went wheeling last weekend, lost a coil spring and nearly severed a brake line coming down off some snow covered rocks.... I fabbed up a set of brackets that I bolted to the spring buckets to keep the springs in place

sliders are nearly done, just got a few bends to make
set up my slightly used pro tools 105 bender mounted it on a slab of concrete in the back yard with 4 1/2" bolts and a homemade stand
It came with one 240* die good for 1 1/2" tube
this is what the former owner used it for...rolled yota truck turned crawler with dual trannys. should be sick when its done. Anyway it obviously can bend

wait dual trannies or t-cases? neat build though! i want to mount my winch up high like that too. Black on Black is where its at!!!

 

[metalmacguyver]

Sweet! I want to see some pics of some bent tooooobbbbbbbb.

 

[crawlin91]

wait dual trannies or t-cases? neat build though! i want to mount my winch up high like that too. Black on Black is where its at!!!

yes dual transmissions they were bolted together end to end

well when I bought the bender he forgot to give me the sleeve so I need to order one from protools before I can make any bends

I added shackles to the rear end and took out the f150 blocks that I was using. That free'd up alot of flex and the truck rides better since the bushings in the old stock shackles were shot. Didnt have any driveline vibration even though it changed my pinion angle once again by removing the blocks. I also need to do some more rear fender trimming as I noticed a few small cuts in my tires(and thats before the shackle swap)...also flushed out the tranny and transfercase as I spent alot of time in the water last time I wheeled.

front end flex is still limited by the crappy stock rad arms but im making that my next priority.

 

[pickuptrucker]

i guess that would give an extra 3.5:1 or so reduction...

 

[crawlin91]

got the start of my sliders done... they got a lil rusty

 

[Motoranger489]

any pics of how you attached the sliders to the frame, thanks

 

[PaleBlue90]

those look pretty sweet

 

[crawlin91]

yeah Ill get you a pic of the mounting brackets I used.

 

[oatmealman]

Grats on totm.You ready for summer yet?

 

[crawlin91]

haha thanks. kinda cool seeing it up on the mainpage. Yeah warm weather means more wheeling, camping, dirtbiking, more girls in skimpy clothes, etc. I cant wait for summer

 

[oatmealman]

haha thanks. kinda cool seeing it up on the mainpage. Yeah warm weather means more wheeling, camping, dirtbiking, more girls in skimpy clothes, etc. I cant wait for summer

ah my god.You gonna take the doors off the ranger when we go up to slaughter?

 

[crawlin91]

yeah I think so. should have some tube doors on it before long but the bronco has been taking up alot of my wrenching time.....you gonna wheel the chebby on Sat?

 

[oatmealman]

yeah I think so. should have some tube doors on it before long but the bronco has been taking up alot of my wrenching time.....you gonna wheel the chebby on Sat?

Yes sir I am.Gonna take it a little easy on it though.needs a clutch in a few months.

 

[crawlin91]

thats cool, so just a 3 vehicle caravan? or is anyone else gonna tag along?

 

[oatmealman]

Adam might be out,his jaw got broken today.I'm sure he'd be down to ride along but probably not drive.a few more people might come,just waiting to hear back from em.