The Alpha Build

its looked good when your grill was dipped. now that its colormatched, looks goofy.

 

yeah....I'll get around to it eventually lol, im more focused on getting rated for Air Traffic...im about a week and half-ish hopefully if things move the way they have been and I'll finally get the ratings after almost a year of training

 

got my winch in last week, removed the derp off the front end and cleaned the headlights inside/out and derpd new eyelids on and colormatched them. also got a newish antenna for free and a new shift indicator piece to replace my destroyed one. sometime today Im gonna be placing my order for my bumper from SOS Concepts 6 weeks and ill have my bumper...cant wait lol

XRC 9.5K winch


looks cleaner now


3' (i think) firestik


old shifter piece


new one

 

Looking good!!!Wow your old shifter was in bad shape. Can't wait to see that new bumper

 

thanks man!! yeah it was, its been like that since I bought her over a year ago, been annoying me this entire time. I tried to fix it with paint, but it just made it worse lol...it's a subtle but very nice change. I cant wait to get the bumper and see what it looks like mounted up

 

How is your flag post holding up? im probably gonna put one on in a couple days

 

It's held up so far, haven't had the flag mounted for a couple weeks. Took it down since there was a week of Thunder storms and rain, haven't put it back up yet. It's held up doing about 60 mph bur haven't gone faster at highway speeds yet

 

ok so it's been a little while since i've done an update on Laylah...and a lot has changed in the month and a half...so here it goes! OP is updated with new pictures

- fixed my damn drum brake issue, replaced the hardware then fixed my brakeline issue that Restylers fucked up when they put my rear lines up front...so all lines/brakes are now 100% and in the correct place and functional again!! (yay for having braking power again!!!)
- got my bumper from SOS offroad Concepts and mounted that and my winch up!
- swapped out my lame-o flat hood for a super +50hp skewpd hood I traded my factory bumper for the hood hehe
- I also kinda tried to drown my truck at boggs and boulders last month at a meet lol
- and the best part of it all, last month I got my ratings! so im no longer in training anymore for air traffic


me trying to drown Laylah in the mud haha



got my bumper in last friday and got it mounted up saturday, had to buy an angle grinder since I didnt have one so I could cut the factory tie down loop so the bumper would fit on




dat skewp tho I also painted the exposed silver areas black

 

You should paint the roof black to match the hood. I think it would tie it all in together nicely. Looks good though!

 

Thanks man! I've been considering doing that, it would look pretty sweet

 

What about this? Too much black?

I saw a white one similar to this on here I wanted to show you that looked pretty good but couldn't find it, found this one on google.

 

ya that's a little too much for my taste lol, I'll just get the roof painted black eventually haha

 

relocated my diff breather to the bedside cubby finally. Now I just need to see if my pinion seal is actually leaking since there was some dirt in the original breather





and some pics from the past meet over in JAX and Ocala

 

I also spent $200 and got a bunch of recovery gear as well, I need to get mounts for the hilift so i can mount it up

- 60" Hilift Jack
- x2 Smittybilt Shackles
- Smittybilt snatchblock
- Smittybilt 30'x3" recovery strap
- Tree Saver

 

got my rear pinion seal and pinion nut changed today finally. very easy process when you have the right tools. I also put in Mobile 1 synthetic gear oil. thanks to bretleg for the help getting this stupid thing changed. so far so good though, doesnt seem to be leaking anymore

thanks man! I plan on getting some 35s here within a month or so when i get some money saved up. debating if I want to cut my fenders or get fiberglass fenders so I dont have to chop them

 

alright so I need some second opinions on this as Im not sure what I want to do with my hood. I can either keep it black and plasti dip the roof black and glossify it with their glossifier to match OR I can sand the hood down and color match it silver...hmmm, thoughts?

 

So the attempt dipping the roof black didn't turn out 100% like I wanted it to. It looks ok, but I'll most likely peel it off soon whenever I decide to buy some vinyl and do it that way

 

just ordered a set of wheelers super bumps for the front, OME CB drop, 3x5 Toyota Flag and im about to pick up a set of headlights off another member to replace my crappy looking headlights! cant wait to get all of this stuff


put my 2" wheel spacers back on up front...I like it oh and.....35s are soon to come

 

hellllllz yeah, picked up my "new" headlights from UPS today! thanks FL Forester!!! these lights looks sooooooooo much better than my current lights do

 

Nice! No more cataracts for Layla. Lol
You gonna do the bhlm again? Or maybe the shlm?