Ruby the shop Rig

[raisinhell2]

We got a little excited with our shop rig build. Idea was just use a lot of the take off parts we have collected over the years. Bumpers, tires .stereos etc. She ended up getting a body on chassis restore. Ruby was an east coast rig that the rust man almost got. My bolt buster got a work out restoring the chassis. The rust did not comprise the integrity of the frame but boy it was ugly. Covered in undercoating from someone trying to hide the damage . This rig tested my resolve and passion for land cruisers Between the rust and the shoddy work of owners past.. It was one of those projects were you fixed something and break 6 other things in the process. And just general frustration . Example Blew a head gasket while parked. Dies in the middle of the road after a new head with arp studs and comt head gasket. No codes nothing . PO did a fuel pump and didn't put the clamp on the fuel hose to the pump. So when the fuel got hot it expanded enough to blow the fuel pressure into the tank But yet had just enough to idle and kinda run . They say they harder they fight they better they are !! my plan was just make something to beat on so I don't have a bunch of pre pictures .. I didn't expect it to turn out this good. I will add photos to the thread through out the week

 

[raisinhell2]

Here are some of the axles . rebuild and restore everything pretty much looked like the rear axle. We found two spots on the frame that had a little rot that we fixed . Under the steering box at had ate some of the metal out which our frame kit resolved and the frt body mount behind the down pipe we replaced. EDIT........... I have had a few ask why I hate DeltaVS anyone who does business with them knows Dave sends out these silly stickers with orders. We stuck it one there to see if he would see it at Cruise Moab . Delta is prob 1 of the best vendors we use.

 

[raisinhell2]

some more chassis

 

[raisinhell2]

Of course How could it be a Precision Land Cruisers shop rig without 1 of our OEM quad headlight kits and old school grill (it's a 1995 with a non us turbo grill) and a Gen1 TRD supercharger!!

 

[raisinhell2]

We didn't do anything to the outside other than some wax . there are a few rust bubbles on the bottom of the rear doors and the rear bottom of the 1/4 panels are wasted. we cut out the rust and sealed it . Because the bummer side wings cover it we may never fix it . More pics to come

 

[Funner]

Of course How could it be a Precision Land Cruisers shop rig without 1 of our OEM quad headlight kits and old school grill (it's a 1995 with a non us turbo grill) and a Gen1 TRD supercharger!!

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So the battery just floats around in the box?

 

[Funner]

 

[raisinhell2]

Richard, Your ability to understand human nature seems about on par with your ability to recognize what’s actually missing. I’ll make it easy for you — for an insult to land, it needs to come from someone who can place a little substance behind it. If you had been able to name the other 36 parts that are clearly missing in the photos, maybe this would’ve gone differently, but you didn’t. Batter, batter… swing and a miss. All you really managed to do was show that you don’t actually know what you’re looking at. Either way, this is the last response you’ll get from me — same as every other forum I ignore you in. I won’t even bother explaining part two of this, which is that for an insult to land, the person on the receiving end has to place some value on the insulter’s opinion. Right now, you’re batting zero for two.

For everyone else: parts don’t always show up before events like Cruise Moab. When that happens, you either run it half-done or you don’t run it at all. We chose not to run trails. I'd rather show a pic with a missing part rather than the rubber strap we used so we could drive it to Moab.

That’s why the rig wasn’t on the trail. It wasn’t ready. Simple.

 

[Funner]

Richard, Your ability to understand human nature seems about on par with your ability to recognize what’s actually missing. I’ll make it easy for you — for an insult to land, it needs to come from someone who can place a little substance behind it. If you had been able to name the other 36 parts that are clearly missing in the photos, maybe this would’ve gone differently, but you didn’t. Batter, batter… swing and a miss. All you really managed to do was show that you don’t actually know what you’re looking at. Either way, this is the last response you’ll get from me — same as every other forum I ignore you in. I won’t even bother explaining part two of this, which is that for an insult to land, the person on the receiving end has to place some value on the insulter’s opinion. Right now, you’re batting zero for two.

For everyone else: parts don’t always show up before events like Cruise Moab. When that happens, you either run it half-done or you don’t run it at all. We chose not to run trails. I'd rather show a pic with a missing part rather than the rubber strap we used so we could drive it to Moab.

That’s why the rig wasn’t on the trail. It wasn’t ready. Simple.

Pretty long reply to someone you don’t know who is not named Richard that apparently lives rent free in your head.

 

[tmxmotorsports]

Pretty long reply to someone you don’t know who is not named Richard that apparently lives rent free in your head.

Pretty sure Richard is a nice way of saying Dick but i have no clue its the internet could be anything

 

[Funner]

Pretty sure Richard is a nice way of saying Dick but i have no clue its the internet could be anything

Yeah, I got that too.

 

[60 toy ota]

Either way it's a wild response to a fairly normal comment

 

[Funner]

Either way it's a wild response to a fairly normal comment

Drugs and or booze

 

[raisinhell2]

A little sound to make time spent in this rig even more enjoyable . pioneer 900 watt amp running the kicker 6x9s 3000 watts running the 10inch subs . Normal power running the 6.5s in the doors. with a Pioneer dbl din head unit. It does exactly as designed to do.

Either way it's a wild response to a fairly normal comment

You consider someone you don't know flipping you off after hurling an insult normal? If it's something you consider normal perhaps you need to unplug for a while the interwebs is rotting you're mind ?.. To be honest the level we work at. it draws the haters and the key board warriors to us like months to a light. No biggie we are used to it . Now that I know what he is in here I'll ignore him as I do him and the others. That won't stop us for the times we rarely share a build on here.

 

[60 toy ota]

You consider someone you don't know flipping you off after hurling an insult normal?

Normally I wouldn't, but on here I think it's generally accepted as an "all in good fun" kind of an emoji, what with the whole Official Mud Welcome and all. That's how I took it at least . I'm sure you know as well as anyone how much communication gets lost when you strip the body language, intonations etc and just have the text.

Anyway, the build looks good.

 

[tmxmotorsports]

How many cubic feet of air space is that subwooffer box looks big.

 

[raisinhell2]

How many cubic feet of air space is that subwooffer box looks big.

Not exactly sure . it is sealed off where the angle starts then spilt into 2 chambers 1 for each speaker

 

[tmxmotorsports]

Not exactly sure . it is sealed off where the angle starts then spilt into 2 chambers 1 for each speaker

OK reason I asked is because subs take a specific air space are those 10 inch subs

 

[tmxmotorsports]

If you bought the subs new the information should have been inside the cardboard box it came in.

 

[raisinhell2]

OK reason I asked is because subs take a specific air space are those 10 inch subs

They are 10s I though they were 8s ha.. I had the drawer system build 10 + years ago by a buddy who owned a stereo shop ..this is like the 3rd or 4 th 80 they have been in .Im sure he set them up correctly and I'm sure he told me what he did... I am certain I forgot that over the years.