Colinb17's kinda sorta build thread - now with 4-link and long travel

On day Ant will be able to do this...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtqMgzUWipM

 

yeah yah yeah....I want to do the locker in the front, as well as a crawler....but as far as the RTT, I don't think it is in my future. I love running the topper, and I am just not a fan of putting one on the top of it. Now if I were to have, lets say an expo trailer

 

I hear ya, it wasn't the easiest getting everything together to start Overland Off-Road. Gotta thank you big time for being customer #1
If i make it up to MD for work, give me a call anytime if you need help with anything.

i'm in the same boat, already top heavy. I alwo have a bad habit of leaning my truck into trees. the bed and roof rack can take it, but it'd mess up a tent real quick. Once i get all of my crap in the same place and have a garage again, I'm thinking i may take off and sell the cage/enclosure on my trailer and build a 2' tall enclosed "bed" for it with a rack above for a tent.

 

And did I hear race

 

Yes.

Go shit in your hat.

 

cool, i'll have to look into doing that after i knock some other stuff off of my to do list (like clearancing for 35'' tars )

I think with the way i have mine set up, it would be nearly a straight shot into the air box. it never even crossed my mind that cutting the snorkel was the solution.

 

I know a guy that's good at plastic welding & he actually fabricated it to be a straight pipe out of the snorkel & has a nibco adapter fastened directly to it with hose clamps.

 

kinda wish you had told me about this before i had end of the world weathersealed it to my truck.....

it may just be the hacksaw for now......

 

just got a shipping confirmation and set up the appointment, tires are going on at 5:00, wednesday afternoon

 

One thing that will help is that there is none in my area only one close doesnt even do there own work is shipped out. I start school next week hope around this time next year ill be rolling. Thanks ill make sure to keep that in mind.

 

awaiting pics of 35's

colin FYI....you need new wheel spacers.....another member went from spidertrax 1.25's to bora 1.75's and he still just barley scrapes frame...i spoke with him before i got my 35's and i ordered 2in bora spacers and i dont rub anywhere at 8psi full lock and stuff but i only have about 1/8in of clearance...i call it perfect just a heads up and the bora spacers are top quality im extremely happy with them....

 

just dont want you to get your tires and have them rubbing like crazy till new spacers can be ordered...and i ent deep with a plasm cutter on my cab mount...right to the frame just about and reboxed it

 

thanks for the heads up. I don't have any wheeling planned for the next month at least, so frame rub isn't too big of a deal right away. i'll just take it easy on the u-turns. as long as i'm not gonna rub the UCAs (i have a ton of clearance right now), i'm gonna get them mounted, and go from there on the cab mount , frame, and fenders. taking care of the pinch weld this weekend though, because i know i'm going to hit that hard core. if i can deal with the frame rub at full lock, I may hold off, just because i wouldn't want to buy new spacers, just to get rid of them in a few months with long travel.

 

you remember how long they took to get to you btw?

 

The Bora's take some time as they are basically made to order (I think)

 

if that's the case, i couldn't even order them right now. i'm only guaranteed to be in my current location for two weeks from monday. i'll give them a call tomorrow and see what their lead time is.

 

Homersnorkeltoshi grill.....








led bullet lights for the license plate.