Basik Built taco

love the build man!! looking at doing the rear shock kit, with the stock rims did you end up running wheel spacers?

 

good choice amigo

 

With stock wheels yes I run 1.25" spacers, at full flex tire is about an inch from touching the shock, so with stocks and spacers it's about a 4"backspace
With new wheels being 4.5"back space I'm gunna try to get away with no spacers

 

got home fro work this afternoon, hauled ass and got my tires on my wheels and balanced then back home, finished chopping the cab mounts back and plating them in, then on these badboys went, hard to tell but the lugs are blue like my shocks

 

Those wheels look great!

 

badass tires you're gonna love them!

 

Solid choice on the tires

 

Front skid in progress, 1"cold roll standoffs, 1/4" plate

 

I like the progress bud! Good DIY stuff going on right here.

 

so probably could get away with .75" spacer then if need be with stock rims. Absolutely love the methods wheels though!! truck looks sick

 

Got my ifs and transmission skid finished this afternoon

 

DIY Relentless bumper showed up at home(still at work down in Lancaster) and sum RuffStuff parts, got sum welding to do when I get home next week. and I gotta fab a spare tire holder( bolts to frame rail, mounted vertical) not a fan of the swingout thing truck is long as it is

 

well i'm glad i read through this, and hopefully you can make it to the gorman socal trip next weekend. your suspension set up is pretty much what i am looking to move towards on my truck, so if you make it down, we'll need to talk (maybe take me for a ride) my leafs will be here on monday, but shocks are gonna take a while to save up for. and still need to hit the steel yard and get back into the garage to start cutting/ welding on some more sh*t before i forget how to

and if i forgot to mention...very nice truck. can't wait to see it

 

This truck is so sick

 

Looking good.

 

Almost done welding this up.....there's a lot of welding to do, makes for good practice, MIG welded on the inside and TIG welded on the outside

 

Hey dude can you take a picture of the back side of your bumper? I'm putting together my DIY relentless too and want to see how you welded the back cross bar to the hitch

 

yea sure thing, but ill let ya know mine didn't come with the hitch receiver parts, I added it in, it just had the hole cutout.

 

Oh awesome thanks! Your truck is really nice by the way, every time I see a nice 2nd gen I get really jealous!