Long Travel BS Thread

Just curious, how much did it cost you to have it built?

 

he had a bunch of extra DOM from other projects so im mainly paying for his time and even than hes not charging me much gonne ba around $700

 

For $700 the guy should have a tube Bender

 

he does haha idk why he hasnt used it

 

I'd have him re do with 90s. Lol

 

Yea? got a picture of what you mean?

 

What leafs you using ?

 

For 700 there should be bends.

Draw a line from the axle to the mounts on the bedcage; It looks like the shock angle is going to be closer to 45* instead of 90

There's lots of designers that cant weld very well. And theres also plenty of welders that can't design very well. Brian might be #2

 

haha got it 9999000000 degrees damn geometry. RN i have All pro long travel leafs but i want to get deavers eventually

 

For 700 there should be bends, some hookers and a couple blow jobs

 

yea thats true but he built an old Ford ranger square body the ones that look like an F-250 and he cut the back halk off and built the whole rear and all the cages and everything and its a pretty gnarly truck so i feel like he knows how to design shit haha ill post a pic of the truck

 

If he's just using scrap he may not have long enough pieces to bend, but a stick of Dom is like $80. You may wanna drop the $80 so he can do it proper

 

I try to explain this people all the time, that statement is 100% not every iron worker can build a roll cage. That's what differs welders and fabricaters

 

I was at the kick off for the torc short course race season today but I can't get the dam video to load

 

did you see his truck...

 

i got a quote for 45 bucks a stick of dom

 

I saw the tiny pic, but I never said anything about your fabricator. I don't know him not have I looked at his work. I agreed with a general statement that was made. I even made an excuse for the poor design work and gave you an easy cheap way to assure you get a cleaner product.

The problem with looking at a vehicle that someone builds for himself is that may not represent the work he does for his customer.

When I quote a job the quality of the product doesn't change based on the agreed price, but that's not the case with everybody. With some people the statement "you get what you pay for" rings true. Not saying that that's your buddy. That's just a general observation of the industry.

 

I could bring my bender, notcher, TIG machine and make that shit in your driveway for about 700$ lol

 

for sure im just being defensive i trust this guy cause hes a friend doesnt own a shop is just doing this because wants to help me out. Bottom line is i wont be hucking my truck 100 feet through the air well just have to see what happens and the cage can always be rebuilt