What I started out with
What I have right now
What I have right now
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'74 FJ40
Chevy 4.3l Vortec
700r4 Trans
Dana 60/14 bolt
ARB Locker
Dana 300/NP241 T-Cases
Full hydro Steering
42" Iroks
ORI's
3 Link Front/4 Link Rear
PRP Fat Boy Seats
Warn VR10,000 Winch
other odds and ends
Chevy 4.3l Vortec
700r4 Trans
Dana 60/14 bolt
ARB Locker
Dana 300/NP241 T-Cases
Full hydro Steering
42" Iroks
ORI's
3 Link Front/4 Link Rear
PRP Fat Boy Seats
Warn VR10,000 Winch
other odds and ends
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some of these were prior to the finished product. build took about a year from when I actually got started.
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Holy balls..
More pics of the finished product???
What kind of shocks are those? I dont have the first clue about rock crawlers..
More pics of the finished product???
What kind of shocks are those? I dont have the first clue about rock crawlers..
Wow!!!
Very nice work!!
Very nice work!!
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Took about a year to finish. We worked on it pretty consistently. Very few setbacks, but i did change my mind a few times and that slowed things down. started out as just being a mild offroad rig and when i found out the body was trashed out from rust i decided to just ditch it and back-half it. About 4 ft of frame and the engine bay and firewall is all that is sI stock. Started out as carb'd made one trip and switched to propane. Got tired of fighting it after one trip and switched to TBI which is where i am now. Planning on getting it inspected and insured next week so i can drive it to work when i want
Haha don't forget about the grocery store!
What do you do for a living? If I drove that to work nobody would be in the office when I got there. They would all be in the parking lot.
That thing is beautiful. Looks awesome. What is your link material? Have any plans for removable door skins?
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Im a service manager/branch manager for Cintas (uniforms). Sit in an office most of the day ... links are Dom lower and HREW uppers. I used Ballastic joints on all the ends. No plans for door skins. I mocked them up but didnt like the look. I am working on getting a roof now
Nice. I'm digging the Longhorn rock rings.
Saw your rig at Jambo and it looked awesome. What size ORI's 14"?
We could use more pics and tech.
We could use more pics and tech.
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Tigerstripe40
SILVER Star
Any idea what the weight of the truck is currently?
I am debating different ideas with my FJ40. Ideally I'd like to be able to comfortably tow mine on a flatbed behind my Dual cab Taco...
I am debating different ideas with my FJ40. Ideally I'd like to be able to comfortably tow mine on a flatbed behind my Dual cab Taco...
Tapage
Club 4X4 Panamá
really like how your rear quarter panels looks .. you did all your weld and tube work .?
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i havent weighed it yet, im thinking 4K lbs, it may be a little much for a tacoma. i just recently picked up a Ecoboost F150 4 door. it hauls it great but stopping it is another story. If I didnt have trailer brakes it would have been a bad outcome. I slid into an intersection (dry road but there was some dirt on the road and it just slid). I have a steel deck car hauler so there is a decent amount of weight behind me.
the ORI's are 14", I got them from Blacksheep on Pirate, he had the best prices. They take a little thinking to get them tuned but ORI has a great program that gets you pretty dang close based on your individual setup.
I will see if I can organize the pictures to give an overview of what all we did. For once I actually got pictures of most of the work we did.
everything with the exception of the front of the cage was done at my house with a Hobart 187 mig welder, a harbor freight notcher and a Pro-Tools 105 bender. The dies on my bender had too wide of a radius so I had a friend who works at an offroad shop bring it to his shop and get the main parts of the cage done where it needed to have some tight bends. Other than those bends all the rest was done here at the house.
the ORI's are 14", I got them from Blacksheep on Pirate, he had the best prices. They take a little thinking to get them tuned but ORI has a great program that gets you pretty dang close based on your individual setup.
I will see if I can organize the pictures to give an overview of what all we did. For once I actually got pictures of most of the work we did.
everything with the exception of the front of the cage was done at my house with a Hobart 187 mig welder, a harbor freight notcher and a Pro-Tools 105 bender. The dies on my bender had too wide of a radius so I had a friend who works at an offroad shop bring it to his shop and get the main parts of the cage done where it needed to have some tight bends. Other than those bends all the rest was done here at the house.
I noticed you had some tight bends on the cage... That's great you did almost all of it yourself.
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http://photobucket.com/projecthomewrecker
that is the link to my photobucket accout with all the pictures. I cant seem to get them in any particular order so they are random but we documented all of the major changes. toward the end when things got slow I stopped taking pictures because there wasnt a lot that changed.
a few randoms
wiring the engine
that is the link to my photobucket accout with all the pictures. I cant seem to get them in any particular order so they are random but we documented all of the major changes. toward the end when things got slow I stopped taking pictures because there wasnt a lot that changed.
a few randoms
wiring the engine
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