Northwesttaco's 80 series crawler slammed on 4d's and BS

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dcguillory said:
I haven't found any yet. Even angry wives are easily fixed with such a method.
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Ha, but a boat doesn't remind you of every mis-step in life, and really costs far less when it does get tempermental.

Price of entry is more with a boat, but time offsets that - that or good legal representation / prenup.

Sresly, @northwesttaco - any plans to flare this pig? (WSP looooooves to pull you over here in Skagit Valley if you have so much as no mudflaps, or the 1" tire poke rule). More to get a looksie @ you & run your info, but a hassle no matter how legal the rest of you & your gear is.

Congrats in the either cool wife, decent income, or the blend of both & blatent amount of $$ going in here -- and that's coming from a Wooldridge (boat) owner.
 
LINUS said:
Ha, but a boat doesn't remind you of every mis-step in life, and really costs far less when it does get tempermental.

Price of entry is more with a boat, but time offsets that - that or good legal representation / prenup.

Sresly, @northwesttaco - any plans to flare this pig? (WSP looooooves to pull you over here in Skagit Valley if you have so much as no mudflaps, or the 1" tire poke rule). More to get a looksie @ you & run your info, but a hassle no matter how legal the rest of you & your gear is.

Congrats in the either cool wife, decent income, or the blend of both & blatent amount of $$ going in here -- and that's coming from a Wooldridge (boat) owner.
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Haha nope no flares. They'd be torn off so quick on a rock/stump etc.. even the stock flares on my old tacoma got ripped off (didn't help that I had to cut them and weren't 100% strong as normal), no body damage though.

Im laughing pretty hard right now! No wife (too young for that). Honestly, I've spent the last few years building my tacoma, sold that and that money has built this thing. Ill be a little over what I sold my Tacoma for but not much.
It was a pretty bad ass and capable truck for being IFS... Total Chaos long travel, locked front/rear, full armor etc etc.. did Escalator on Hells Revenge without any assistance and a ton of other trails
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Little bit of an update..
Picked up a ARB compressor for the lockers off a friend. He had it for a couple months but never installed it
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Then after taking everything off the back (spare tire, hitch, brackets etc..) I didn't fit in the garage anymore so I shaved the roof
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And ordered ballistic joints this morning. 10 days until it goes in to be linked!
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Since the PNW got its first snow of the year I thought i'd head out and get in some of it!
Took the pup and even though it was day old/iced over snow, it was still worth it!
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Stopped here since it got too skinny with a drop off and slightly off camber on icy snow..
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And because Mud is stupid and only lets you put in 5 pictures...
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Very impressed with these Nitto's... usually this icy snow gums up the treads but they stayed completely clear the whole time.. And only "aired down" to 20psi since i forgot my deflator.
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northwesttaco said:
In the mean time my coil overs came
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And I picked up some Dobinson 3" variable rate coils for the rear!
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So after wasting about a month and a half now with my fabricator that I originally planned on using not responding to me, I am now going to a different shop that has done many SASs, won many awards for their rock crawling builds etc.. and with the current tires leaking air/I really wanted to be able to at least drive the cruiser, I picked up some OME J springs for the front from Torfab
And thanks again to @Apounder we got to work putting them in
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And tadah!
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What coil overs are these again?
 
Thanks!
 
@jcardona1
Kinda hard to see since I had to use the flash so ill get some better ones in the day light, but to give you an idea heres the custom Y pipe that comes down and runs alone the inside of the frame. Goes over the cross member and over the box type thing for the rear heat
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Single cat right where the frame starts to bend out and rear driveline starts out the T case
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Then the muffler is about 4-5" behind this and is dumped before the axle.
 
Took the cruiser in this morning! Roughly 2-3 weeks, hopefully sooner. Having it regeared while they have the front axle torn apart so getting the diffs and taking them to where Im having it regeared, then taking the diffs back will take some fines in my schedule. ARB front lockers were on back order except for the one shop I know pretty well in Seattle has one in stock thankfully.

Cramming it in on the ferry.. obviously can't take good pictures when im half asleep at 6am
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Picked up the diffs today and now being regeared to 5.29's and ARB's. Had no idea that our frames were double walled on the outside wall..
@jcardona1 any reason you didn't plate your frame? I know @Apounder did but noticed you didn't and have been perfectly fine (to my knowledge).
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Only bit that is left to cut. Shop had some issues with their plasma cutter which set them back
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Diffs are dropped back off.
Links, axle truss, and diff guard are all done (besides full welding some of it). Frame plating, towers, steering and panhard are next. Then just a lot of little things are left. Probably about 1.5 weeks left until it's completely done.
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