Builds Orange's Neverending Scrap 80 Build (the s is silent) (3 Viewers)

[peesalot]

Thats what you get for a lock right, the corners on those squared teeth round off and every few revolutions, POP, POP, it will wear the splines on the axle as well. I have a 9.5 detroit you can have, just needs surface rust wire wheeled clean and its good to go.

 

[Marvelicious]

The Sequoia did great out there and is ready for the next adventure. Now I'm in full Sierra Trek prep mode. At Rubithon, I made a handful of runs up and down Cadillac Hill getting stuff in for the event and made a boneheaded mistake. I hit pavement at the staging area and turned right towards the restrooms for my son with everything locked in and the 40s at 8psi. There was a lovely noise from the front end and then I only had 3 wheel drive. So back down Cadillac I went after we were done loading things and fueling up and then came back up and out fully loaded with a trailer also loaded in 3 wheel drive. Found a side gear grenaded in the diff. @Firemedic831 brought me some 9.5 parts to make it whole again thankfully. I won't do that again...


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The fender trim level with the hood is cracking me up. You just don't see full-on aggressive trimming like that on here very often. Like, "F%&# it. It's purpose built for wheeling, let's stop pretending."

 

[AgentOrange]

The fender trim level with the hood is cracking me up. You just don't see full-on aggressive trimming like that on here very often. Like, "F%&# it. It's purpose built for wheeling, let's stop pretending."

Yup, it's a toy. I don't need it to appreciate in value or any other nonsense. I just need it to work. Now if only my brain did also, it would be ok

 

[Broski]

The fender trim level with the hood is cracking me up. You just don't see full-on aggressive trimming like that on here very often. Like, "F%&# it. It's purpose built for wheeling, let's stop pretending."

The only issue is the the hole front end works together to hold itself together!
You lose a hole lot of support eliminating the inner fender wells and cut that much of the radiator support away.
It’s been documented in other builds.

 

[Marvelicious]

The only issue is the the hole front end works together to hold itself together!
You lose a hole lot of support eliminating the inner fender wells and cut that much of the radiator support away.
It’s been documented in other builds.

Having been a part of some fairly aggressive builds (one hilux, the fender trimming sort of kept going to include some of the hood...), I'd say that's true of most vehicles to some degree. Definitely worth putting some kind of structure back to hold it all together, just to keep the fan and the radiator from becoming intimate. Looking at the timetable of this build over the last few weeks, I'm thinking he wouldn't have had time before this trip.

 

[AgentOrange]

The only issue is the the hole front end works together to hold itself together!
You lose a hole lot of support eliminating the inner fender wells and cut that much of the radiator support away.
It’s been documented in other builds.

I have some structure added to the inner fenders to keep them from flexing too much. I did that when I cut more to fit the 40s and had to trim the battery tray area a bit more. The radiator support got moved and attached a bit more securely a couple years ago when I toasted a radiator and discovered that the front end crash damage from before I bought it was worse than I knew. I didn't want that whole area moving around like crazy

 

[SNLC]

This little man looks like he has been on trips with you before!

Cheers

 

[AgentOrange]

This little man looks like he has been on trips with you before!

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Cheers

He's pretty good at this. He's running with me on Rubidyce for Sierra Trek in a couple weeks, so another long drive down in the 80, and then we're doing another Rubicon run immediately following Sierra Trek. Then the drive home. He doesn't complain one bit. I even gave himn the option of jumping in the Sequoia on the way down when it was raining on us and threatening to snow. And then while it was snowing he could have made the jump. Nope, only interested in riding with me