The 2.7l 5spd RC Hooptie Build

Thanks man I am really happy with it. Well worth the work I put into it, has served me very well!

 

What part of MA are you from?

 

Just south of Boston!

 

Around Quincy, Braintree? If so your not too far from me. I live about 15 minutes south of Gillette Stadium

 

Yessir right in that area...looks like you get that truck of yours dirty!

 

Sometimes. We're doing a Toys for Tots run with a meet & greet and then wheeling afterwards in a couple of weeks.
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/tw-toys-for-tots-m-g-then-wheeling-event.520374/

Then I'm going to NH the week after that to the Freeze your gas off run done by ENH

 

Something happened...someone cut a bunch of stuff of my truck!
Before

After


More to come!

 

you get 35s yet?

 

Funny you should ask

 

hell ya! see you are liking the treadwrights.

 

Yeah after a lot of shopping around I decided to stick with them. I have really liked these tires and you can't beat the price point! Can't wait to get them mounted up!

 

Well it finally happened!

Picked the rims and tires up on Friday from getting mounted and balanced!

These things are beefy!
I got some cabin fever yesterday and threw on my warm gear mounted them on the truck!

I have already done all the clearance work up front so they are ready to go. I am able to run the tires with stock fender flares still on (only for driving around town) I had to do a little trimming down by the cab mount so that the tires could spin without hitting the flare but I have no rubbing riding around town! Once it warms up i will be regarding I have 4.88s ready to rock from ECGS and will gusset the spindles when the temperature allows me to lay under the truck again! But for now I'm loving the new meats and can't wait to regear and get on some tracks and trails!

 

So I have been super busy lately and have been doing a lot of work to the truck as well! I have cut a lot more metal off the truck than I would like to admit and still need to flex test everything and probably cut even more!
In preparation of regearing I have been started soaking the appropriate nuts and bolts and noticed this...

I think I may have blown a seal on my rear driver's side shock
On to the upgrades!
I found a set of bucket seats on Craigslist located in new Hampshire for 200$ and I jumped on them!

I got them installed and wired for the seat belts and airbags.

I was a lot of work to get these seats properly wired in...the driver seat is plug and play but in order to get the passenger seat wired you have to do some serious splicing but it appears that I have it properly wired as everything is fully functioning!
Not necessarily fully related to my truck but it did transport the tools. I finished welding a roll cage for a buddy's CJ and man is it a sweet ride!


4 spd with a factory AMC V8 with a cam still a lot of work to do before it is fully road worthy but it at least safe to drive!
And my latest upgrade is in the organization department!
I bought a tool roll from a company I've never heard of Atlas 46. US made products so far it has eliminated this terrible useless box from my life!

As well as put pretty much all my hand tools into this nice neat organized roll that fits behind my passenger seat!

And a side by side before it was rolled up

 

Where in MA do you live? Im in Easthampton

 

I'm about 15 20 mins south of Boston

 

I had to ask with all the pics of trails on your thread. Wheres all that? looks fun

 

Between Thursday and Friday I finally got around to regearing the truck from the stock 4.10s to 4.88s huge difference in drive ability! I can't wait to get out of the break in period and put the truck some paces!
Only pics i took off the process.
The new clamshell bolted up to the ADD tube I named to break one of the heads on one of the bolts so it really slowed the process down

The rear end was easy very simple in and out

 

Pics are from all over New England! ME NH VT MA some great wheeling here in the north east!