Slash's "Budget" Built Trail Limo and BS, Now with Polls!

it is streetable, but she's worried about tearing it up somewhere further out like Nebraska or Ozark International Speedway.

 

Well, @AccuTune Offroad has been super helpful deciding on which shock to buy and the costs associated with rebuilding on down the line and I'll be pulling the trigger on some new King Smoothie RR 14x2.5 rears Friday! Really excited to finally be properly shocked and the shipping info from Poly Performance for my Deavers came in my email yesterday, so those will be on their way very soon. Will finally stop sagging in the rear and be sitting pretty for ATR this year barring any hiccups along the way, God willing!

 

Got all the parts I need to swap over to the new Kings and Deaver H70HDs. Might try to tackle it over the long weekend. I took Friday off too.

 

you got 4 days you will get it done!

 

id hope you could get suspension done in 4 days but all it takes is one crusty bolt to derail that lol

 

honestly!

i still remember working on the suspension on my 98 coupe... one bolt one! rusted and seized into the arm... didnt own a sawzall back then so i used a hacksaw... and man was it a nightmare lol

this bolt here... had to also break off the welded nut on the end since it still had the bolt in it lol

 

Let's not revisit that particular one or the other.

 

They should all be fine, they are grade 8 and electroplated from JD Fab. But I'll knock on wood and send up a prayer just in case.

 

Yeah, things went the usual way.

 

3 siezed bolts.

 

sooooo finishing it up next weekend?

 

Nope it's done

 

gonna save for later lol

 

Went to ATR, nearly rolled it in a ravine, got stuck in a mud pit. No real damage except to tire tread.

Things I wanna do before next ATR:
-High Clearance Rear from Coastal. Contemplating if I can swing that right now or wait another year for the next sale.
-Hard Mount Low-Profile GMRS antenna (My rugged base got sheared off at the cable end and the magnet adhesive failed and ripped through the bottom of the base. (Pending Rugged's response to the defect)
*Ordered a new, shorter cable already. Going to make an extension off the ditch light bracket to hold the antenna. Will just mount the NMO Rugged antenna for now, and decide on a low-profile one later.
-New Tires: Considering some coopers, but not sure which one to go with. I've heard the ST MAXX's are on the heavy side. Will be going to 285/70R17 as the 295s are just too wide, though they were nice at 20PSI for traction.
-Massage the firewall a lot more and trim back the cab mounts as much as possible, or just do relocates. (I'm 90% sure, the major tire damage was due to being stuffed into the cab mount and firewall when turning into obstacles. The ol' cheese grater effect.)
-Replace fog lights and add ditch lights
*Ditchlight Brackets ordered from CBI (I wanted something that wouldn't interfere with the hood hinge since I already added hood struts.)

 

dude you could have asked me about ditch light brackets i have a set you could have had!

 

Well shoot. What kind? Mine haven't shipped yet, might be able to cancel. I need the ones that mount to the cowl, not the hinge.

 

id have to look on my thread let me look.

 

The fun coupons didn't align for the coastal sale, so another year before I grab one. Hopefully the tariffs don't impact that.

So I reached out to Rugged about my magnet base coming apart and the sheared cable and they are sending me replacements for free! Now that's customer service! I even made sure they were aware that I had bought open box display kit from their King of Hammers Sale in 2023. So that covers that for now. I'll just keep running it that way for now, till I get around to making an extension bracket for the ditch light brackets. (Whenever those actually get here... How is it like a 14 day lead time on a bent piece of metal?)

Still contemplating tires. I've been influenced to try the cooper ST Maxx's but for 5 is still like 1400 all said and done, which is a lot.... For now the Falken M/Ts are holding air, and the front driver only just started feeling unbalanced. Wonder what discount would say if I brought it in with it's missing tread lug and asked them to rebalance it

 

I loved my ST Maxx's. Those tires can take a hell of a beating. I absolutely love my STT Pros but whenever they need to be replaced I'm most likely going to get the Maxx's again