Lux's '01 Build

My recovery points are 3/4". You buy them alone from Relentless Fabrication, if you wanted. You could also go the route of Box Rocket and have a hitch recovery point.

 

Alright, got a new bumper and put everything together. It was apparently a returned bumper and had hardly any damage, cost me $150, not too bad. It did get a bit scratched up in shipping but I'm not complaining, looks great. Wish I found a decent aftermarket bumper I liked but oh well, Ill get one later down the road I suppose.


Also got the sway bar back on with some new energy suspension bushings and some home made spacers, trying to get rid of this weird clunking sound i used to hear that i believe is the sway bar and if not, hey they aren't hurting anything.

^replaced one of the brackets because a bolt was stripped and i had to grind off the welded nut

and finally washed her.

Might be getting a Trail Gear front bumper soon too

 

Clean truck man.. You must be able to take the bed off in 5 minutes now huh lol

 

Thanks, haha yea

 

alright, couple of updates for you guys,
Got my Trail gear Low profile front bumper a couple weeks ago. The frame was bent where that stupid tow hook thing is so we had to heat that red and bang it back in place, then I had to kinda drill out the outside a bit so I could fit a bolt in there. primed it with self etching primer and painted it satin black. then Changed diff oil for the first time in like 100k miles.

made a little mount for my new wilson flex antenna, its bolted behind the tie down point on the passenger side.

Painted my grille duplicolor gunmetal gray, same paint as my wheels, came out nice.
Bought a front hitch and D-ring for about $25, then had a little photo shoot in an empty lot nearby.

painted my D-ring with some tractor supply yellow paint that matches the old man emu yellow surprisingly well cost me something like $8 a can though, then went to New York City the next day.

Finally relocated my blinkers to the corner lights, actually work pretty well there.

last weekend I picked up some 1/8" steel for about $25 to start plating the top, traced it all out on some cardboard first then cut using an angle grinder, wasn't fun and took all day. Finally got them done just gotta clean up the edges and do some minor adjustments to make them fit nicely. Ive been a bit sick lately so when Im over it Ill be welding it all up and then I might put my lights back on there.

 

washed and waxed the entire truck, also used some peroxide toothpaste on the headlights and then waxed them as well as the windshield, no before and after pics but it looks much better. also discovered a windshield crack, its small enough that I can take care of it with a diy kit though so ill do that tomorrow. Updated the OP with new pics

 

no issues running such tall tires on the 4 cyl?

I have 225s now, been thinking of going to 245s

 

Seems to handle them alright, there is a noticeable loss of power which I was expecting but nothing you can't handle. I think 285s are the biggest you can run without regearing and after driving on em that sounds about right and looking back I probably wouldn't have done anything differently. Some people throw 255/85s on there and claim they get some substantially better mpg too but I wasn't really into the pizza cutter look. Im averaging about 15mpg with the 285s, seems to be worse now than when I got them.

 

I get about 20-22 on mine on the 225s.

 

yea I used to get around 19-20 on 265/70s but thats just a trade off for bigger and better

 

Finished plating the top of my bumper awhile ago and never updated the thread so heres some pictures. The welds weren't fantastic so I went at it with the angle grinder to try to get it to flow better and made some decent gashes in spots but looks alright I think.



Also Got a dash hula girl

And some flags

 

Your truck is beautiful

 

Thanks man! I appreciate it

 

Did you happen to measure how much suspension lift you got with the OME 881 coils?

 

Yes I did at the time but have no idea where I wrote it down, gained 2-2.5" on the front I iirc, I'll measure tomorrow too if you want, might've settled slightly from the bumper but still looks to be at least 2"

 

Thanks! I think with 881s and a winch I'll probably get 1.5" to 2" of lift on my regular cab. How do they ride?

 

They aren't too bad, way stiffer than stock obviously, took some getting used to but I don't think it's bad. With a winch and bumper I think I'd consider 882s or 883s. I think 882s have the same Spring rate as 881s but are a bit taller. With a winch on 881s 1.5" sounds about right

 

Updates:
New Lower ball joints
Spidertrax 1.25" Wheel spacers
ebay LED flood pods
Pinch weld mod

Out with the old / In with the new


what was left of the cotter pin..


leaky ball joint


Here you can see where the tire was rubbing the frame, really badly (nobody listens to me when I tell them DONT go full lock)


These should fix it!


Spacers caused more rubbing on the pinch weld so I bent it out of the way and cut some plastic, needs to be cut more however.


Still haven't fixed that CV, heres a good shot of it torn open, all the grease is now completely gone


Picked up a new one today


Also bought some LED flood pods and made this bracket to mount them on




Recent pics with most of this done:

 

Good work man, where did you put the switch for the pods?

 

where the diff lock should be I put both sets on the same switch