My slow build of "The little Taco that could"

Tested out the stock DS stuffing the driver side.






Didn't test out the passenger side stuff didn't want my DS sliding apart

 

You jelly bro?

 

Got bored. Still need to bend up the rear edge of my belly pan.

How its sitting now.


A little flexing.

 

Nice!! Does your front driveshaft come apart if the other side droops like that?

 

dam, that thing articulates great! awesome job!

 

It fell apart just drooping a few inches.

So I welded up the extended splined add-on from trail gear which I still need to flex out to see how it does. when I do I'll post pics.

Btw... The 1/4" belly pan isn't moving even when I kinda slammed down near the edge. Still might reinforce it with the 1x1x1/8" angle whenever I get it. No rush on that.

 

lol That a lot of droop!

Sounds good,man

 

Thanks. Still stuffing those 33s

Now imagine stuffing 35s or even 37s in my wheel wells

 

Stolen from Ripcord's photobucket.
On the Devils crack on the Moab Rim trail

 

From Low Range Offroads Facebook

 

From Box Rocket's photos

 

Impressed with your truck Chad. Always a pleasure wheeling with you.

 

This makes me want to actually start building my truck a little bit now that I'm going to have money

Too bad I'll be 1600 miles away from Moab here pretty soon

Think you could pull a 27 hour drive with the solid axle Chad?

 

Adam it's always a pleasure wheeling with you and your knowledge of the trails in Moab.

Do eet! We had people from the east coast so I think you can make it.
If built right you can make the trip. I had no problems headed up to Moab, but on the way back I had some crazy "death wobble" due to no track/panhard bar. Come to find out that after putting in the leaf I took out from the front leaf packs my tie rods worked themselves in further into the arms and the nuts were a little loose. Making my track/panhard mounts now, glad I still have quite a bit of 1/4" plate left over from the belly skid (that I didn't use this year. Funny that I've used it at home).

Edit: I also broke in the front springs really well on this trip.

 

Nice! Glad you got it figured out. I've got plenty of death wobble experience from my moms f250. That thing is terrible.

 

that shit was scary! i was behind him most of the way back to NM and i thought we were gonna have to get another trailer to tow back a rolled taco

 

Made a track/panhard bar and it works really well.

Down side is that I now have about 3 1/2" of up travel on the driver side. But I'll see what I can do to remedy that.