No worries mate. I got the truck to the house today. I'll prolly start this weekend.

 

sweet....wish i found a deal that good when i got my truck. i wouldnt be scared at all of the truck, as said really seemed to take good care of it and liked to do things the right way...... he was also on dezert rangers....apparently got banned there too, lol



why are these pics the EXACT same as yours in your thread with this truck, but you can see a couple extra in this thread with vipers truck in the background? youre not him are ya?
http://www.dezertrangers.com/vb/fab-...tm#post2342047

 

oh, i see now....you are a friend of viper's. why not just say that?

 

Haha, we're only friends as far as DR goes. I helped him with some bends for a bumper at one point after a DR meet. I PM'd recently him after seeing that post because I was interested in what he had done with his truck. That's how I found out it was up for sale. God I'd hate to be him anyways, going to afghanistan and all.

 

D^mn dakota do you stalk viper
What kinda plans do you have for the front suspension any lift or just going for the most travel

 

I'm going for the minimal amount of height increase as possible. The 35's will pick it up quite a bit, however I don't know how much higher it will sit above its current height. I'm currently designing arms for about 18" of travel that will fit within 3" flare fiberglass. I may be centermounting my arms. I'm not sure at this point.

My goal is to build a kit that the shop will be able to sell, so this is a true R&D process.

 

lol, after he came back with the diff name, and some were thinkin it was him i searched for him and found him over there makin the same posts and such.........

Bigred- where is the front tube bumper that he made for that truck, is is still on? i saw his DR thread and it looked pretty cool

 

I've got some pictures on my computer at home. I'll get those posted up this afternoon. But yes, that bumper is on there. I did the bends for him.

 

Sorry it took me a while to get these up. Had an accident at work and spent the whole evening dealing with that mess. Here are some pictures of how it sits now. I'm prolly gonna take it out this weekend and romp on it a bit.




Something that really bothers me is that the skidplate is crooked. However I'm not a fan of how he did the two verticals off the frame. It needs to be boxed in better, so I'll prolly end up cutting those two tubes off and replacing it with a pair of boxed members. We'll see.

 

Looks great for a starting point. What are you going to do with the body panels that you replace with fiberglass? I am guessing shipping the box to michigan would be hideously expensive.