Shmellmopwho DCLB EXPO BUILD

Food truck meets are huge here in AZ

 

Haha dude it was bomb! Next Thursday you should go check it out!

Awesome!! Don't see a ton here. My best friend who works for Toyota got us VIP passes to the Toyota Drift Grand Prix in Long Beach, and Seoul Sausage was the food truck who catered our booth! Sooo good!!

 

Sooooooooooooo..........I kinda bent the crap out of the sides of my home made bumper before getting the chance to internally weld them and gusset them and stuff, so the bumper is all effed up. I'm so busy with so many other things that I don't wanna rebuild it all. So I bought a Relentless Fab DIY bumper today. It'll be nice and easy to weld together when it gets here and I'll feel good about myself at least for having welded it all together!

 

...... Uh-oh, you're talking about the new front bumper you were working on?

 

Boooo, how'd you bend the wings?

 

You need to try the"Burnt Truck"food truck if you get a chance!When i get back from Arizona at the end of May i'll be in touch with you in regards to the sliders for my truck!

 

Yes

Sucks man. I was heading back from a burger place near me and I blame it on the long travel. I hit a huge dip in the road and the wheels traveled upwards so much that my tires grabbed the edge of the unfinished wings and bent them down like crazy! Had to pull over and take my bumper off and throw it in the back of to truck. Sucks, but looking forward to my new relentless fab bumper!!

Definitely will check it out if I see it!! And sounds good man. Just lemme know when you're ready!

 

Sucks man, sorry for the bad and good news. Hope your tires are okay, especially if they were able to grab the back of the wings.

 

Busty.... You should just give me the long travel and I'll give you my bumper

 

Thanks man. I'm glad it happened this way. Tires were totally fine.

Haha alright come on over and we'll make the switch! My buddy Johnny tells me he sees your truck all the time. He lives on the next block over from you.

 

We need to have a bbq one of these days

 

agree + let me use your tools

 

Would love to!!

 

You're more than welcome to whatever I've got in the garage

 

Sooooo I was driving the other day and was hearing this grinding noise when I was turning. Decided to get under the truck and have my wife turn the wheel while I looked for something out of the ordinary. Turns out my LCA uniball bolts had backed out almost all the way. Scary. So that grinding noise was all the threads getting destroyed on the bolt! I messaged @Tracy@All-Pro Off Road and asked for the specs on the bolts. She quickly and kindly messaged me back and had some replacement nuts and bolts sent to me. They got here quickly and I replaced them today. The best part was that my 11 month old daughter helped me do it all! Truck rides great, no grinding anymore and everything feels solid.

 

Glad you traced the problem before something came right apart! Cute kid! Already in there getting her hands dirty, teaching her while she's young! I'll upload some pics of my bumper and send you them, just got it painted and mounted up on the weekend, headed to Oregon on Friday.

 

So cool

 

Wow! I'm very glad you found it before it let go on you.

I love your picture of you and your daughter. I'm a huge fan of family wrenching time.

 

@Shmellmopwho I just uploaded a pile of pictures from the bumper build and other recent work to my media page if you care to check them out. Might have to get around to a build thread sometime here but ain't got no time for that right now!

 

Yeah that woulda sucked!! Hahaha thanks man! She's so awesome! She jumped in and helped without any questions asked!