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Anyone going to RoundUp at Katemcy next month? Don't be mistaken when you see me wearing my hair in a bun, I only do it so it don't cover up my redneck.
Poor life decisions epitomized; Taking Mom's car to the party (1 Viewer)
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just here to echo others - great read! Youre skills and getting things done on a tight timeline is impressive!
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An hour into TSL-SX2 and chill yesterday resorted in overnight parts from the CCP!
Good thing I've got a practice-kid. I had him practice how to use a couple tools recently to get the interior stripped as I'd like to get my hands on the body bolts in the near future, and wanted to attempt to free the moonroof cables like a sucker. No dice. Conveniently I had some T-Case bearings show up outta nowhere early, so the headliner is still out and this sound deadening was a no-brainer.
I also grabbed a PCK pre-order from eimkeith.com that should head out later this week according to the site and some material to make some sliders (I'm really hoping to make that happen this weekend). Just because you CAN fit a 12ft stick in these things creatively doesn't mean you should. I'm going to order some shocks soon and I need to get all the travel weight in it so I can get the most out of it, so I also ponied up and bought some scales. If you're in the Austin area and interested in seeing some cross weight action, we might could work something out. My scales are like me though, no Chonkers (7k max
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March 1st is just around the corner, my calendar is marked to register for GSMTR. I think it makes 25 years since the last one I went to. My best friend may not be here to go with me this time, but 1000 miles with Swampers sounding like a low-flying piper-cub dropping gifts from South America will have the same nostalgia because I probably wouldn't be able to hear him talk anyhow.
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Good thing I've got a practice-kid. I had him practice how to use a couple tools recently to get the interior stripped as I'd like to get my hands on the body bolts in the near future, and wanted to attempt to free the moonroof cables like a sucker. No dice. Conveniently I had some T-Case bearings show up outta nowhere early, so the headliner is still out and this sound deadening was a no-brainer.
I also grabbed a PCK pre-order from eimkeith.com that should head out later this week according to the site and some material to make some sliders (I'm really hoping to make that happen this weekend). Just because you CAN fit a 12ft stick in these things creatively doesn't mean you should. I'm going to order some shocks soon and I need to get all the travel weight in it so I can get the most out of it, so I also ponied up and bought some scales. If you're in the Austin area and interested in seeing some cross weight action, we might could work something out. My scales are like me though, no Chonkers (7k max
)
March 1st is just around the corner, my calendar is marked to register for GSMTR. I think it makes 25 years since the last one I went to. My best friend may not be here to go with me this time, but 1000 miles with Swampers sounding like a low-flying piper-cub dropping gifts from South America will have the same nostalgia because I probably wouldn't be able to hear him talk anyhow.
GSMTR 2023
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Been a rough couple weeks but finding registration for GSMTR open a day early really brought a smile to my face. I coughed up my sheckles and can't stop thinking about seeing if I can whiskey a few folks into a good night run come June. I honestly shouldn't have worked on the 100 at all this weekend as I had other stuff that was a priority, but the aforementioned rough couple of weeks just left me wanting to have some me-time.
Upon going about this I found some rust. I realized quickly that the few brain cells I have left may become extremely important as I reach ever-closer to forty years of age and that huffing Toyota's finest may not be in my best interest. I had some stainless sheet half the thickness of the OEM mild steel, so I got out the El Cheapo electric metal glue machine, tin snips, and a body hammer I got suckered into buying off a tool truck years ago with the incentive of a free bag of beef jerky.
Mind you I've NEVER done anything like this, but I'm not fixing the exhaust until I can do headers and a full build and this is faster and cheaper based on me guessing because, well, I've never done this. But I have built an exhaust and that took forever using the same tools I have, so, here we are. Let's not huff exhaust anymore.
Decided I didn't need the seatbelt mount, so a lil' choparoo, snippity-do-da, and some extremely amateur manipulation with the beef jerky hammer netted me a deleted bung and a filled hole; some results I'm personally happy with. I have some seam-sealer on order which will allow me to cover this stuff in more sound deadener and put the panel back in.
Upon going about this I found some rust. I realized quickly that the few brain cells I have left may become extremely important as I reach ever-closer to forty years of age and that huffing Toyota's finest may not be in my best interest. I had some stainless sheet half the thickness of the OEM mild steel, so I got out the El Cheapo electric metal glue machine, tin snips, and a body hammer I got suckered into buying off a tool truck years ago with the incentive of a free bag of beef jerky.
Mind you I've NEVER done anything like this, but I'm not fixing the exhaust until I can do headers and a full build and this is faster and cheaper based on me guessing because, well, I've never done this. But I have built an exhaust and that took forever using the same tools I have, so, here we are. Let's not huff exhaust anymore.
Decided I didn't need the seatbelt mount, so a lil' choparoo, snippity-do-da, and some extremely amateur manipulation with the beef jerky hammer netted me a deleted bung and a filled hole; some results I'm personally happy with. I have some seam-sealer on order which will allow me to cover this stuff in more sound deadener and put the panel back in.
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Quick and dirty hole repair over, I got back to the sliders which led me to realize I'm WAY overdue for a plasma cutter. The CCP's finest in the form of Chicago Electric isn't ideal, but it's gonna work for a truck that's sole purpose is to be abused like free peanuts at a Texas Roadhouse. A little Origami got me started.
I had cut up some main bars and they're stays initially and then got busy with Life. So building the kick-outs was next up, and here's what I came up with.
Funny, I've had that little red stool since I was probably four years old. Anyhow, my main goal is to have these as tucked as possible as we are confined with this chassis to really poor ground clearance because of the inherent suspension design up front. I also wanted minimal surface area for the "sliding" aspect of them, as well as a 'soft' approach for lack of a better way to put it, so I triangulated in the main bars to the kick-outs underneath, as well as will do the same up top.
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Front section. I have an idea for the cap, but I'm stupid and started on the side missing a dog-leg with a crushed fender (also from being stupid at hidden falls) so I'll wait until I build the other side, then bash this side to reflect the needs of the other side.
And here's the rear.
All in all, that's where I'm at. It's also the first time I've done anything of this nature and I'm pretty happy seeing the things in my head become tangible. Still a lot more to go on these, but it's a good start.
And here's the rear.
All in all, that's where I'm at. It's also the first time I've done anything of this nature and I'm pretty happy seeing the things in my head become tangible. Still a lot more to go on these, but it's a good start.
Once you start welding up the rusty body panels there is no going back! I imagine the dog leg area between the rear door and rear wheel would be next!
Great build so far - keep on keeping on!
Great build so far - keep on keeping on!
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Mannnnn I did NOT finish those sliders. s*** is TEDIOUS with a cutoff wheel and angle grinder. Anyway, I was really missing my father this week. He taught me to drive at nine years old in this heap.
So I did this
So I did this
Love to see this man! My single digit driving years were in a 40 which became my 1st car. Which Dad and his buddies rolled over 4 wheeling... I honor it with having an off white 100- and memories.
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20 years late to a party I'm not welcome to, at least Katemcy was kinda neat. It's good knowing it's fairly close and would be fun with a group of people that are seasoned wheelers. Unfortunately, I wasn't sure if I should even go until yesterday and made it way late as it was.
Saw a couple 100s out on the "trail", ended up falling in tail with a group led by a local with a 100 who I was told "wheels it" but the group he had were all scared and we spent probably 2 hours doing something we should've spent seven minutes at.
Thankfully I ran the fenceline trail before I ran into those guys or I wouldn't have even got a feel for the truck with the few changes made beforehand. Probably shouldn't have ran it solo, a dude in an 80 turned back at the first obstacle. It only got hairier, lol. This little climb was a weird approach. I wish pictures did it justice. Cool thing about granite is it's all traction, and I have a front locker. Easy-peasy.
The next section just up top was a little intimidating, luckily this random buggy dude came through and showed me the mall line
Somehow I don't have more body damage, gotta love 35s! The TSL-SX2 performed EXACTLY how I needed them to. I can't WAIT to get them out to Windrock.
Saw a couple 100s out on the "trail", ended up falling in tail with a group led by a local with a 100 who I was told "wheels it" but the group he had were all scared and we spent probably 2 hours doing something we should've spent seven minutes at.
Thankfully I ran the fenceline trail before I ran into those guys or I wouldn't have even got a feel for the truck with the few changes made beforehand. Probably shouldn't have ran it solo, a dude in an 80 turned back at the first obstacle. It only got hairier, lol. This little climb was a weird approach. I wish pictures did it justice. Cool thing about granite is it's all traction, and I have a front locker. Easy-peasy.
The next section just up top was a little intimidating, luckily this random buggy dude came through and showed me the mall line
Somehow I don't have more body damage, gotta love 35s! The TSL-SX2 performed EXACTLY how I needed them to. I can't WAIT to get them out to Windrock.
Nice build, great design on those sliders!
TSL-SX’s myself on my 40.
Definitely have to admire your ability to put it to words! Having driven a few thousand miles on large
TSL-SX’s myself on my 40.
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If I was able to finish the sliders I woulda showed up earlier, but I spent SO much time on them I wasted all the time I had to fix the issues that I had/have. The pinion on the rack started leaking the last day at COTR, so Friday I found it's actually leaking from every seal it has via the surprise shower of fluid I got when yanking the boot. Trying to buy myself time til a new rack, I slapped the new inner that's gonna get the grease washed out sooner than later by the PS leak, and checked for play. STILL THERE. But at least the lack of deflection in the tie rods has allowed the rack bushings itself to be exposed, so I cut a coupler I had laying around and shimmed it.
With that "taken care of" I decided to replace the porn fruit shaped trailing arm that has been on the truck before COTR, toss on an Eimkeith PCK, and get the thing aligned.
Yep, my truck is a rust-bucket. Don't care, it's here for a good time and not a long time, same as me. So the problem with being the slightly weird kid is it attracts the actual weird kids. Literally painted the stripes on directly before heading to grab an alignment and I wasn't parked for more than five minutes.
The truck drives night and day different. Per usual, the alignment place had a "broken printer" so I couldn't get a readout of how trash my NitroGear UCAs actually are for adding caster back to a lifted vehicle. I suspect caster is out of spec, which is why they play this game. I get it. I've been a dealer tech and watched Service Writers tell people the printer is broken because it's easier to explain that than why someone's beat Camry has adjustment that won't go into spec. Either way it's going back for another soon as I get a rack and some rack bushings. If SuperPro makes those, they'll be going in with the LCA/frame bushings I already have from them. Enjoy a picture of PigPig inspecting a solid pinion spacers. ARB needs to ship them lockers!
With that "taken care of" I decided to replace the porn fruit shaped trailing arm that has been on the truck before COTR, toss on an Eimkeith PCK, and get the thing aligned.
Yep, my truck is a rust-bucket. Don't care, it's here for a good time and not a long time, same as me. So the problem with being the slightly weird kid is it attracts the actual weird kids. Literally painted the stripes on directly before heading to grab an alignment and I wasn't parked for more than five minutes.
The truck drives night and day different. Per usual, the alignment place had a "broken printer" so I couldn't get a readout of how trash my NitroGear UCAs actually are for adding caster back to a lifted vehicle. I suspect caster is out of spec, which is why they play this game. I get it. I've been a dealer tech and watched Service Writers tell people the printer is broken because it's easier to explain that than why someone's beat Camry has adjustment that won't go into spec. Either way it's going back for another soon as I get a rack and some rack bushings. If SuperPro makes those, they'll be going in with the LCA/frame bushings I already have from them. Enjoy a picture of PigPig inspecting a solid pinion spacers. ARB needs to ship them lockers!
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Finally got the lift working.
Really wish this thing woulda been regeared and locked by now, but ARB has been on backorder and I'm not doing carriers twice; I'm just not. I'm tempted to cancel my order at this point and just shim the ever living crap outta the rear LSD, but I don't want the tire wear that comes with it.
Speaking of tire wear, I'm in love with my setup. I can sit on the bump and tires rub NOWHERE! This is big to me, and exactly what I was shooting for.
Genuinely didn't think I could pull it off without a body lift, and I couldn't! Queue Cat Stevens.
Also, this thing weighs 5014 with 1/4 tank of fuel, only a front passenger seat, and no spare. I'm shooting for #5900 loaded with the Boys in it. No particular reason other than I like the number because it's 100lbs lighter than 600.
Really wish this thing woulda been regeared and locked by now, but ARB has been on backorder and I'm not doing carriers twice; I'm just not. I'm tempted to cancel my order at this point and just shim the ever living crap outta the rear LSD, but I don't want the tire wear that comes with it.
Speaking of tire wear, I'm in love with my setup. I can sit on the bump and tires rub NOWHERE! This is big to me, and exactly what I was shooting for.
Genuinely didn't think I could pull it off without a body lift, and I couldn't! Queue Cat Stevens.
Also, this thing weighs 5014 with 1/4 tank of fuel, only a front passenger seat, and no spare. I'm shooting for #5900 loaded with the Boys in it. No particular reason other than I like the number because it's 100lbs lighter than 600.
Just read this entire thread - such a fun read and gave me the activation energy to go deeper into my own 100. Think I am going to register for Pilgrimage since I'm already in VT! Plenty of time to prep for a Fall trip
I also noticed you have the infamous rear cross member rust hole (driver's side) on that Feb 22'nd post. Do you have any plans to patch that? I have the same one and considering my options since it fails inspection in VT (rust paranoid state)
Hahaha
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You know, I probably should as I plan to really twist this thing. I was honestly thinking hole saw, then hole saw a piece of flat steel, and use that plug to fill.
Haven't really done anything to it other than occasionally make the trip down to the river to let Windows do some smelling and Pig do some rock farming. I absolutely love his single paw protruding from the surface of the water as he goes down for a rock
Waiting on parts, need to order parts, need to turn some hours. Getting fired recently made me look at myself in the mirror and have a conversation with myself that I had been avoiding. You know, like when you're pretty much just done with a relationship but you live together and you're both going through the motions maybe to avoid a major disruption in life, but you're just really unhappy yet scared to make the leap? Like that. Some things are a no brainer and you end up on autopilot making it happen; that was me September of 2022 looking down the barrel of COTR seeking the goosebumps that always come as you get closer to the trailhead in the smokies after 1000 miles of mundane scenery and ridiculously low speed limits traversing The South. And other things are just, well, easy to pull an ostrich and stuff your head in the sand. And that's where I've been with everything else. Unfortunately my mirror doesn't actually talk and if it could, it'd still be me. Thankfully my friend Howton grabbed me by the shirt and told me what I needed to hear instead of what I wanted to hear. I genuinely hope each and every one of you has a Howton in your life. So instead of looking for a job, I opened the doors of the shop and made myself a job with the focus of spending more time around the things that have allowed me the most personal growth. It's gonna be a tough year, but all that matters is GSMTR IS LESS THAN 60 DAYS AWAY.
Who's taking bets that I don't do anything of any substance until the last week of May? Any takers?!
Congrats on making the leap, I did myself about 6 years ago for reasons similar to what you described. Tell us more about the shop.
And that freaking foot in the air out of the water is hilarious, like a diver with a diver down flag.
