Shmellmopwho DCLB EXPO BUILD

Thanks man I appreciate that. Our DCLB's are awesome!! You thinking about cutting yours pretty soon?

 

Not till I'm done with these 33's; but after I regear, I want to run 35's. So short answer yes, but I don't trust myself to be even.

 

Hahaha I understand man. I was pretty nervous to do mine. You can use a grinder on the sheet metal cuz it doesnt have to be perfect. Then just use a dremel and a file on the plastic fender cover. Makes things much easier with the dremel!

 

Another package in the mail today. Wooo!
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Man you are just rolling in the goodies.

 

So many packages!!! ahhhh build is looking sick bro, im trying to catch up haha

 

Thats awesome!! Careful with the mic though I've heard those are easy to break. But are you going to hook up a speaker on it so you can yell at people as you drive by??

 

Haha I went wheeling today and my wife told me my CB package came in and I was pretty excited haha. Just waiting on my antenna to get here and I'll be installing. Woohoo!

Hahaha I love seeing brown boxes at the door step! Thanks dude! That means a lot! I haven't done much in a while so I'm excited to be working on the truck a little more! Yours is awesome as well!

 

Haha thanks man. Yeah I heard and have been researching that they are very touchy. I'm definitely going to be careful when I tune it. Haha it would be awesome to have a PA system! "HEY YOU! OUTTA MA WAY!!!!"

 

My buddy Joey and I went up to Big Bear for the day yesterday to cruise around on some trails. It was a great day! Love being in the mountains.


















Pic of my new sliders that I built

GO PRO pics

 

looking good buddy! good work on the sliders too

 

Haha thanks man! We had a really good time yesterday. Thanks I got to use the sliders on a few tricky sections yesterday and they performed very well.

 

Noooooo your rear tire lifted!! Shock relocation time

 

Hahaha when I was in the air like that I was thinking "hmmm wonder what it would be like if I had those kings back here right now"

 

Great pics from Big Bear, Ryan!
Awesome build, I like all of the mods you've done already. Excellent job on those new sliders too!! Keep mod'n....

 

Thanks Lee I appreciate it!! It was a fun time. Thank you very much for one of the most recent mods! CB!! You da man.

 

hey man, gonna cut my fenders and was wondering what method you used, and what method you used to reattach the fenders?

 

What's up dude. So basically what I did was I cut my sheet metal fenders underneath with a grinder cuz they get covered back up anyways and they didn't need to be super precise (even though I tried to be super precise) and then I cut my plastic fenders with a dremel for precision. I just zip tied mine back to the truck and they've held up great. Although they do sell the little clips pretty cheap if you break a lot of them during removal and don't want to use zip ties. Someone else recently asked about cutting they're fenders and I gave them a quick step by step of what I did.

1. Remove plastic splash guards inside of fenders
2. Remove plastic fenders
3. Make sure to put low tack painters tape from the bottom edge of the plastic fender to 3 or 4 inches up.

4. Use a cheap drawing compass, adjust the compass to 2.5 inches (or how ever much fender you decide you'd like to cut off), take stationary end and run it along the bottom part of the plastic fender while the lead end marks the line to cut all the way along the plastic fender. (you can then trace with sharpie to see better)

5. I used a dremel with a small cutoff wheel to cut the line on the plastic fender.

6. Use low tack painters tape to tape the sheet metal fender from the bottom of the fender to 3 or 4 inches up.

7. Use the drawing compass and repeat the same steps on the sheet metal as you did on the plastic fender.

8. On the bottom right side, middle, and bottom left of the sheet metal part of the fender I scored the line with a grinder so that I could bend back little tabs so that I could screw or bolt in new plastic sheeting for splash guards. It's optional for you if you'd like. Pictured below.


9. Cut out sheet metal line with a grinder.

10. I bought plastic car door edge trim to put on the plastic fenders to make them look nice.

11. Put back on the plastic fenders (I broke a lot of the clips so I used zip ties)

When doing the rear you will have to remove a couple brackets that help brace the bedsides and tweak them to be able to adjust to the new cut fenders

I don't think I left anything out. But just in case I left anything out you can totally refer to Slimwood Shady's 09 Access Single Cab Build starting on page 39. Let me know if that helps.

 

Looks like a fun trip you took.

 

Yeah man it was a good day! Had some fun. Couple little challenging spots. Got some good photos so it was a great success.