Building the "BEAST"

Ahhhhh.... No, not really

 

Really? Sweet! .....now i just need to take a road trip down to so cal!

 

Come on down. Your not too far. My daughter is up there at Or State in Corvallis.

 

oh really, thats cool. Mapquested it and looks like maybe 11-1/2hrs drive. Im considering a road trip in the spring or summer, maybe i'll end up down there. I was thinking of hitting up the Dumont dunes and maybe Glamis with my quad too.
Whats your daughter's major? what year is she?

 

That would be cool.

My daughter is in her junior year and is studing veterinary medicine with an emphasis on deep sea mamals.

 

Update.

We started mounting the links to the front axle. It wasn't really that hard because we spent about 20 hrs. on the computer figuring out where they would go, how long they would be and what effect any changes would have on anti squat, dive etc.

This is the lower link on the passenger side. It has already been attatched to the frame further back. The lower links locate the axle front to back while the top link controls the axle from rotating on itself.


This is the top link on the passener side.

We put the top link on the passenger side unlike others who put it on the drivers side. We did this because of room, the fact that now you can use any axle without modification, and it tracks really well.

This is the lower link on the drivers side.


In this picture, you can see the top and lower link and also the panhard bar that keeps the axle from moving from side to side.


This was the first panhard bar frame mount we made. We have since changed it.


We then cycled the axle to make sure there wasn't any binding before we made the shock mounts.



Then came time to make the shock mounts. Jason wanted something different. I don't really like them but they are strong as hell. I will change them at some point. You can see just how far into the engine bay we had to come.




We also mounted up the rear axle. This was a temporay mount as we had to get it ready for the Off Road Expo.


This was the night before the expo. I finally went home at 4:30am to get a little sleep before the show. We mounted both axles, wheels and tires and did the graphics all in the night before the expo.




On it's wheels again, after four months of work it's just three hours away from going to the Off Road Expo in Pomona, California.
It is far from beeing done though. It has no driveshafts, no brakes, the rear axle is not mounted correctly, and the bed is not completed yet. But it rolls!



Finally in it's place at the 2005 Off Road Expo!





While setting it up in the booth, we put the Acro HID lights onto the front bumper.


Stay tuned for more. This thing is nowhere near being finished!

 

bad ass truck man! im definately following up on the rest

 

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That is one sweet truck. Do you live in the Irvine area by any chance? I go to UC Irvine and live here in the second year housing. I haven't seen your truck on the streets around here though.

 

Thank you.

 

Thanks. I live in Westminster, near Huntington Beach. I do drive it regularly on the weekends but it is down right now waiting on new gears for my crawler box.

 

Wicked build man! It would be sweet if you guys made some sort of a kit to do this, on much less of a budget though. Do you have anymore info on that Toyota owners mag? I've been looking for a magazine for a while that is all Toyota's, I see all kinds for jeeps.

 

wanna sell it??

 

Here ya go

http://www.4wdtoyotaowner.com/

 

Everything is for sale for the right price. But it's got to be the right price

 

Thanks, just bought a year subscription!

 

lol... I've read 55k in work alone... plus truck... YIKES...

maybe when I win the lotto...

 

I want your truck...in Speedway Blue. haha

 

+1. did that yesterday too

 

Same here.Thanks for the link.