jvazquez53
El Tractor
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Bienvenido!!! = Welcome!!!, nice rig!
New guy here
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Pictures
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Thanks for the tip on the pictures. More pics to come as soon as I get the time. Today I will finish up by adding some tweeter mounts on the cage and painting it.
Thanks for the tip on the pictures. More pics to come as soon as I get the time. Today I will finish up by adding some tweeter mounts on the cage and painting it.
Way nice cage!
Nice rig. Come join our Trailcrew meeting, 1st Tuesday of every month off the 210 in Sun Valley. We have a few wagons and yours would fit in perfectly. Let me know.
How much for a parts cage kit if I provide the material? I'd love to make a cage exactly like that but my bending skills are horrid. My truck will be very similar when finished, SOA, 35's locked F&R, but just stock engine. I'm jealous.
How much for a parts cage kit if I provide the material? I'd love to make a cage exactly like that but my bending skills are horrid. My truck will be very similar when finished, SOA, 35's locked F&R, but just stock engine. I'm jealous.
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Very nice work! Mike
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Your cage is georgeous, very nice.
I imagine your amps hope you never set it over on that side
When you say you've been eating up birfs, do you mean stock birfs...
Longfield Super Axles
For the most part this link is what folks will suggest along with inner seals from...
Marlin Crawler, Inc.
and a front knuckle rebuild kit from...
Cruiser Outfitters
I am aiming for the long fields, and then I will see what breaks next, maybe the U joints, or ring and pinion, the power of the skinny pedal is some times very tempting to show off.
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Nice rig. Come join our Trailcrew meeting, 1st Tuesday of every month off the 210 in Sun Valley. We have a few wagons and yours would fit in perfectly. Let me know.
How much for a parts cage kit if I provide the material? I'd love to make a cage exactly like that but my bending skills are horrid. My truck will be very similar when finished, SOA, 35's locked F&R, but just stock engine. I'm jealous.
Thanks for the invite
, I will make time to go check it out, and PM'ed you in regards to the cage, give me a call so we can talk about it. O.G.
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More pics
view from left rear passenger side
view from left rear passenger side
How did you get the cage so close to the roof without burning the headliner?
One more Mudder saying nice work! I've not seen too many internal cages on the board here; yours looks good!
I have the same Q that GLTH does, how'd you get it in there so close? (Perhaps I'll get the same answer he did!)
BTW, I'm a beige FJ62 guy, too!
I have the same Q that GLTH does, how'd you get it in there so close? (Perhaps I'll get the same answer he did!)
BTW, I'm a beige FJ62 guy, too!
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The answer is to insert a piece of sheet metal and cardboard and use the mig welder, also clean the metal so it does not spark much. I designed the cage to be installer friendly, the tubes come a little taller so you cut to the size you choose, some may not be able to weld in a tight environment other may so I leave up to the installer to decide. Another method to get a clean look is to install the headliner over the cage, when you look up you see your headliner only and not the cage. This method requires you to re do the headliner but its very how do you say, cool. And thanks for the kind words. Plenty of friendly people here.
Nice work, I bet you have a lot of time in that! I would love to see a pic with the headliner installed under the cage.
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Thanks. Takes about 36 hours to complete, that's including the removal of the whole interior (carpet, seats, panels etc.) regarding the headliner we'll have to wait for someone to install it that way.
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Power and birfs
Two birfs in one day, so much fun to change them in the desert heat. With help from friends I managed to find seals and a couple of spares birfs for the rest of the outing. One broke as I was going up a sandy hill, straight up no turns, engaged the ARB and voila. The second that was my fault, going down a 3 foot embankment and wheels turned. Longfields in my future I know.
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Two birfs in one day, so much fun to change them in the desert heat. With help from friends I managed to find seals and a couple of spares birfs for the rest of the outing. One broke as I was going up a sandy hill, straight up no turns, engaged the ARB and voila. The second that was my fault, going down a 3 foot embankment and wheels turned. Longfields in my future I know.
That is a sweet ass cage, on coil overs no less.
Upgrade already so we can finish the trails we started. mr. horse power.
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Painted cage with grab handles and tweeter mounts
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More pictures of the cage.
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