Long Travel BS Thread

True but I wouldn't spend 60 for someone elses truck, when at that price I am in the ballpark to have built exactly what I wanted.

just my 2 cents.

 

Gil's a good dude, I stayed up at Brandon's house with him for 4 days to help button up the truck before that photo shoot. The truck is very nicely built, solid work and could be made into a nice truck. That being said, it needs quite a bit of love to make it worth the price tag. If it had an interior done, some aluminum work, tune/re-spring the shocks, and the wiring cleaned up it would be worth pretty close to what he is asking I believe.

Although; for what he is asking I would prefer to buy a proven race truck with all the bugs worked out. Corpse Grinder is a perfect example of what I would want. Building the truck is the easy part...finding and fixing all the little quirks and tuning can be a big pain and cost thousands more. After a year and a few hundred dirt miles I am just now working out the final little kinks on my truck.

 

What is Huck-a-thong? And when is it?

 

fuuqq

 

. Please explain.

 

You have to watch Chris drive and you will understand.

But I'm surprised those stock leafs lasted that long.

 

I'm guessing it coincided with my differential leaking. Not sure exactly when it happened

 

yeah me too

 

So apparently my gears are 4.88s they sent me the wrong ones. :annoyedgah:

 

are you selling them? ^^^

 

Yes

 

pmed

 

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Building a truck is NOT easy, well unless you do a little at a time like you are.. I did that with my last truck and enjoyed it from the start of the build, unlike the Sport Trac that is fighting me every step of the way.

I really wish I would had just waited and found a truck that was already built. They all come with problems and you're buying someone else's headache, but they are done, you just have to work out some bugs. But when I was looking to start a new project nothing was coming up at the time. Now bad a$$ trucks are popping up everyday for MUCH less than they are worth and I'm still trying to get my truck in the dirt after 2 years of dumping time and $ into it.

Fu*k trucks..............I should have bought a GTR instead

 

hopefully some of this will be on my truck tomorrow. I already put on the LCA skids. Going to try and do the bumper and shock hoops..bumps for another day. Getting ready from some triple bypasses

 

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/showthread.php?t=214674

See ya there......

 

Gonna sell these possible Vogtland German shocks for my friend, 2.0 x17" x7/8 shaft double bypasses, friend was going to use them but hes got something else. Good shocks, 450 bones
Piggy back resi, chromed bodies

 

Those look like some sick shocks.

 

hey guys, long time no see.

I'm thinking its time to paint the fiberglass and lose the panda look.

Knowing nothing about paint or fiberglass what kind of questions should I be asking the people painting the glass?

Color matching would be nice and some way to protect the high traffic spots would be a great feature. I have heard of using clear plastic auto bra stuff on the spots that take the most abuse and bed lining the inner part of the glass to prevent spider cracks from flying rocks.

I figure I can brush on the liner and install the auto bra myself. I just cant rattle can anything bigger than 1:10th for shit.

Oh, and how hard is it to fill in fiberglass? If i was to lose the rear stock bumper the space under the rear tail lights would need to be filled in. I heard GW makes bumper caps but they take forever. Could that just be filled in another way?

Thanks in advance!

Jim