Dayman's Karate Class- from SAS’ed Taco, bouncer, IFS 4Runner, and now a Jeep!

So you going to be ready to ride this weekend?

 

I wish haha still need to trim fenders, figure out brakes, relocate battery, mount steering and run hoses, redo the bedcage, fuel cell, ball joints, buy driveshaft kits and probably 50 other small things

 

Lol. I know

 

I’m ready to ride with you guys again. Keep seeing videos on YouTube and thinking that could be me having fun if I worked harder

 

They ride some where every weekend, They were at Hawk Pride again this past weekend. Said tire grip was great because all the trails had a foot of water running down them no mud, lol. They are talking about going to Stony this weekend.

Talking about going to this grand opening

 

Very cool. That looks like it’ll be a good park. I’m hoping to have a shake down run at Chocco in April.

 

Is that the same place that SETO from TTORA used to be hosted? If so that place is badass.

 

No idea, the guys I ride with are planning a ride there.

 

My wireless airlift system had a small compressor that they probably use in air mattresses so I swapped it out for one of my VIAIRs. Fabbed up a little mount for it. It’s much quieter and more powerful, so I added a chuck so I can fill tires, as well. Nice to hit the desired PSI from the app.




Mounted the control valve on the taco, but waiting on alignment bushings and shock mounts for the rear so I can get more done. I reused the stock steering shaft and just cut it down to where it needed to be

 

Getting closer

 

Damn old school. I believe that's where they had it back in the day.

 

Looks good man. Tough to keep the the second gens low without chopping the front fame off. My buddy Nathan (Trailtoys) had a tone of work in front when he swapped his.

 

Thanks man. The engine is limiting uptravel at this point, but that’s a can of worms I’ll save for an LS…or a jeep

 

Hell yea that's how I know of that place!! I wheeled with 01tundra there (white 1st gen tundra on tons that was on a few mid 2000s UA for the youngins). That real old school!!

 

Hard to tell, but this is going straight down. Figured I’d try to bulldoze some runaway wisteria a couple weekends ago. Ended up spending half a day cutting myself out of a tangle of crap going forward. No amount of 4lo or locking the rear or using the bucket to try to scoot back helped. This is usually when I’d bring out the taco and winch right on out, but that obviously wasn’t an option.

So it didn’t take long to decide that the Ford needed a winch. Grabbed a rough country hidden winch mount and used a winch I had laying around. The HF Apex hook matched too well so I couldn’t help myself.

 

Got the steering welded up and started clearing for the tires. Spent way too long trying to press in new knuckle ball joints. Should have let a shop do it.

 

Rear mounts tacked on and cycled and now she sits, but just for a bit

 

Looking awesome

 

I’m so ready to ride haha the list is getting shorter though.

 

I had the towing package, but decided to add a bigger transmission cooler. Trans fluid is still nice and red so that’s a plus lol

Back on stands and cycling the suspension for driveshaft plunge, brake lines, hydro lines and limit straps.