Builds Reconstruction after rollover - building The Champ 2. (1 Viewer)

[spyduh]

PSA: Whenever you need to lift heavy and awkward objects like your bumper, always use your lower back and use snatching and twisting motions as you swing upward for best leverage.
Truck looks great, have fun unplugging in the forest.

Even better tip. Use a Engine Hoist when you don't have help. I stopped struggling and use tools with out breaking the back.

if no cherry picker is available.... maybe a come-along, ratchet strap or some sort of pulley system to your rafters might work as well. anything beats dead lifting that thing!

 

[baldilocks]

Even better tip. Use a Engine Hoist when you don't have help. I stopped struggling and use tools with out breaking the back.

if no cherry picker is available.... maybe a come-along, ratchet strap or some sort of pulley system to your rafters might work as well. anything beats dead lifting that thing!

Ok

 

[baldilocks]

The lights up high project light more effectively than from below the main horizontal tube where they were before.

 

[mudgudgeon]

The lights up high project light more effectively than from below the main horizontal tube where they were before. View attachment 2748782View attachment 2748782View attachment 2748781

Have you had them running at night?

I was wondering about raising my LED driving lights after using them quite a bit last week. Mine are set in the main part of my bumper

 

[AussieHJCruza]

Have you had them running at night?

I was wondering about raising my LED driving lights after using them quite a bit last week. Mine are set in the main part of my bumper

Slight Hijack @mudgudgeon I put my lights on top of the bar hoop on my raptor (they wouldn't fit under it) and had a couple of comments from the cops about needing to move them when going thru an RBT or something, but never had a ticket for it. I believe it's something about sharp edges and pedestrian safety.

IMHO you want them as high as you can.

 

[mudgudgeon]

I think they aren't allowed to protrude forward of the bar

 

[AussieHJCruza]

Me being a smartass, I printed off the ADR and put it in my glovebox, I'll dig it out and check but I don't think it specifically says that, it just says something about not being detrimental to pedestrian safety

I think they aren't allowed to protrude forward of the bar

 

[baldilocks]

Have you had them running at night?

I was wondering about raising my LED driving lights after using them quite a bit last week. Mine are set in the main part of my bumper

As a matter of fact I have run them at night on the country roads leading to my home. I can turn the factory headlights off and run with plenty of light. Would an incoming driver appreciate them? Probably not but it’s amazing how much more I can see after moving them 13” higher up.

 

[spyduh]

As a matter of fact I have run them at night on the country roads leading to my home. I can turn the factory headlights off and run with plenty of light. Would an incoming driver appreciate them? Probably not but it’s amazing how much more I can see after moving them 13” higher up.

HID projector retrofit time!

 

[baldilocks]

HID projector retrofit time!

Meh, I’m old school so the lights I have are gtg……

 

[SNLC]

The lights up high project light more effectively than from below the main horizontal tube where they were before. View attachment 2748782View attachment 2748782View attachment 2748781

I like the bar. I have also pointed out my lights a bit, call them “ditch lights”? I used to live in Wyoming so lots of back country two lane roads at night. Also work fine pointed out a little offroad.


Cheers

 

[baldilocks]

I like the bar. I have also pointed out my lights a bit, call them “ditch lights”? I used to live in Wyoming so lots of back country two lane roads at night. Also work fine pointed out a little offroad.


Cheers

Thanks. It took time.

 

[baldilocks]

Once again…

 

[baldilocks]

I like the bar. I have also pointed out my lights a bit, call them “ditch lights”? I used to live in Wyoming so lots of back country two lane roads at night. Also work fine pointed out a little offroad.


Cheers

Not so sure about ditch lights. These particular pod lights offer a wide array plus forward visibility. I angled them a bit outward to take advantage of that.

 

[baldilocks]

My wife and I are back from CA. We spent three nights and 4 days enjoying Spider Lake along side the Rubicon Trail and the famed Little Sluice Box. During our very relaxing stay we watched at least 50 rigs navigate the Sluice box most of which were, yep, Jeeps. How can Chrysler and the after market keep up with Jeep folks???

Much to my pleasure, I saw a white 80 series amongst the big group of jeeps. That 80 I should have recognized but didn’t. I met the owner and told him I was committed to helping him and his other buddies getting his big rig through Sluice Box.

Once he made the passage we actually met. Turns out he is a mud guy who goes by @Marco Lau. It’s a smaller world than we think and I’m always happy to come across another 80 owner whether he or she is on Mud or not.

Today I was approached by a mud guy in his work truck while fueling up my tow rig in Oregon on our way home. Happy faces and lots of good conversation.

 

[Marco Lau]

My wife and I are back from CA. We spent three nights and 4 days enjoying Spider Lake along side the Rubicon Trail and the famed Little Sluice Box. During our very relaxing stay we watched at least 50 rigs navigate the Sluice box most of which were, yep, Jeeps. How can Chrysler and the after market keep up with Jeep folks???

Much to my pleasure, I saw a white 80 series amongst the big group of jeeps. That 80 I should have recognized but didn’t. I met the owner and told him I was committed to helping him and his other buddies getting his big rig through Sluice Box.

Once he made the passage we actually met. Turns out he is a mud guy who goes by @Marco Lau. It’s a smaller world than we think and I’m always happy to come across another 80 owner whether he or she is on Mud or not.

Today I was approached by a mud guy in his work truck while fueling up my tow rig in Oregon on our way home. Happy faces and lots of good conversation. View attachment 2761137

Great story. My Jeep crew were like "This guy is really determined to get your rig thru Lil Sluce" Long story short, I told them who you are and that we have been chatting on MUD for over a couple yrs now. Good to put a face to a name Steve. Your rig is a beast, wish I could have saw it in action @ Fordyce.

 

[baldilocks]

A few days later I might have done a little wheeling on Fordyce trail. The day brought us the expected heat and dust but also an hour of down poor including light hale. The subsequent cool down was welcomed and the disappearance of dust a relief but the rocks became very slick and the going got tough.

 

[baldilocks]

Ola Amigo’s, finally after 7 years, two rear sway bars and a couple sets of oem link’s, which isn’t bad considering, I’ve decide to follow the wisdom of a few mud legends and make my best attempt at adapting a RockJock rear AntiRock sway bar to the White Rhino.

My wife and I spent a few days up on Rubicon prior to attending the Sierra Trek Event on the Fordyce trail and at some point the driver side sway bar link became half torn apart at the bar end. I decided to let it be and run the Fordyce as it were. The link held up until later afternoon, surprisingly, until the bar became completely liberated from the link and the bar wound up hooked on a rock and twisted back directly into the ground. The decision was made to cut the bar off with a cordless angle grinder that the trailer sweep had in his kit.

 

[Broski]

Ola Amigo’s, finally after 7 years, two rear sway bars and a couple sets of oem link’s, which isn’t bad considering, I’ve decide to follow the wisdom of a few mud legends and make my best attempt at adapting a RockJock rear AntiRock sway bar to the White Rhino.

My wife and I spent a few days up on Rubicon prior to attending the Sierra Trek Event on the Fordyce trail and at some point the driver side sway bar link became half torn apart at the bar end. I decided to let it be and run the Fordyce as it were. The link held up until later afternoon, surprisingly, until the bar became completely liberated from the link and the bar wound up hooked on a rock and twisted back directly into the ground. The decision was made to cut the bar off with a cordless angle grinder that the trailer sweep had in his kit.
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If you going through the frame, Derrick should be able to send you the pattern to cut the holes

 

[spyduh]

He opted against frame cut hole. He wants to do it @nukegoat style and mount under frame/bumper method.