NW WA Meet / BS Thread

Looks great so far! How would you rate the difficulty?

 

Pretty straight forward for the most part! Everything is either tabbed to connect into another piece, meant to be 90° to a piece, or on the wings just basically held up to what looks good body line wise, then the rest of the pieces fall right in. The main center sections come pre bent, so that saves a lot of welding and starts the bumper off square. Lots and lots of welding though, basically every piece gets fully welded on the exterior of the bumper, and then on the inside I fully weld around the winch plate, and stitch weld the rest of the interior, since the outside welds will get ground flush/formed.

 

If I was more proficient in welding I would be all over something like this. It looks like a fun project.

 

Is anyone going wheeling on Monday?

 

I'm not opposed to it.

 

Id be down for something pretty mild and some shooting if anyone is into that kind of thing

 

Outside chance I could depending where.

 

Is a rear axel with a blown up ring and pinion worth anything? it’s an 8” diff 3.73 gears

 

That has the e-locker right? Then it's worth something, what that is is the real question.

 

Nope it’s a limited slip unfortunately…

 

In that case it would be perfect for a trailer project.

 

If you have the room save the axles and the break line and at least keep the speed sensors. If your are going to toss it I would take it though and put it up on a shelf in the shop incase someone gets in a pinch and needs something off it.

 

Ill take it if you’re going to toss it

 

im going to post it on fb marketplace for $100 obo if it doesnt sell soon ill donate it to one of you guys.

 

@Shadowhunter thanks for doing the needle bearing today. Good catching up.

 

Your welcome @Tacodog. It’s nice getting a little Tacoma therapy. I enjoy working on these trucks.

 

A nice little short story from last weekend. Me and the girlfriend took the trucks up in the snow and got first tracks up at spada lake. Almost made it up to the top to the turn around spot but the snow was getting too deep and the diffs were really dragging.



Unfortunately when we went to turn around Jenna got sucked into a snow bank and I found out that my winch controller had a pin break off sometime in the last couple weeks and the winch was a no go so i hooked up my kenetic rope to her and after some digging and some tugging I finally got her out but not before a wonderful exploding noise that ended up being her rear differential committing suicide after 200,000 less than gentle miles.



We ended up limping the truck off the mountain about 12.5 miles at about 3mph. On the way down we ran into (literally and figuratively) a few different rigs that tried to follow our tracks up, the first was a jeep wrangler with open diffs that slid sideways into a ditch. When I tried to get by him to pull him downhill my back end slid and hit his steel bumper. Guess ill be getting a high clearance bumper sooner rather than later.



down the trail a bit was a tundra and a gmc 2500 both on street tires that were stuck probably 100 yards from where the pavement ends so we pulled them out too and got them turned around (without running into any of them) and kept our slow crawl down the sultan basin road.



we ended up getting out of there pretty late and parking her tuck in sultan (sketchy) until we picked it up the next day. I found a rear diff for a decent price this week and put it in and managed to mostly pop out the dent on my truck. Moral of the story is stay away from jeeps and check your winch plugs.

 

Does anyone have this Total Chaos Uniball Press Tool kit, and willing to loan out?

 

Sounds like quite the adventure! My truck is covered in unintentional dents, I think it comes with the territory.

 

yup its definitely not the first dent and wont be the last. plus i couldn't feel too sorry for myself at the time because my girlfriend was driving down the mountain with a differential that sounded like world war 3