4dr rock swatter....

Took the kids to a cabin in big bear hiking wheeling and digging crystals....used the rear cargo area which worked out perfect....did some night wheeling made most of gold mountain in 2wd...used the suspension and speed to keep momentum...lol

Was a good spring break kids had a 5o5al blast....

 

So took the old transmission mount out and cut what was left of the rubber mounts off....ground em down threw some 1.5 .120 tube with leaf spring poly bushings in....
Called dealer and even at shop price the new Mount was too expensive....so after chatting with Brian at 4WU and eric at Yotamasters I made these....

Knew what I needed to do just called them to see of they knew of any I'll effects long term to doing this...eric has been running g a pro,y Mount tranny and chain end front stock motomounts for 11 years now no issues....good enough for me....

 

Here is what I did for my motor mounts and trans mount. No vibrations and works great.
Check out this Marlin Crawler link with 2 pages of stuff with the stock cross member. The TG cross member sucked for my application.
http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=95599.0

 

Yeah the rattle at idle is a bit more than I wanted but its not bad.....I will say that when hammering around square edge hits it doesn't ,make a clunk at all....its a
Solid and translates the solid feel to speed and handling...

I may do straps later but not likely ID prefer t keep it all poly and run It hard.

Also you can run a softer durometer urethane or poly I have a buddy who makes his own and has different densities...this will eliminate a lot of the frame chatter....

 

Decided to see the rings in blue...so was going to Anodize but as much as mine get smeared on rocks a good coat of metalast
They are a semi close match to the king shocks....

 

Cut 7/8" off the tranny mount on TG skid side ,lowering the transmission away from the tunnel....did a 3" hole below tcase for a quick access to the drain so no need to remove skid.
started rear battery tray (Artec) and made the tubes and started welding...it'll be in place tomorrow.
Will be a nice finished off look....

 

So started with a clean area and made a home for the battery....was good to get it out of the front and open it up.....
Moved the fuse box sideways and against the support to open up....

 

OK....took it out to a small spot to finally gauge the suspension and handling....its time to start thinking about a cage....its fast enough now that its a bit too easy to keep speed going Into stuff and feel comfortable....it floats the faster it goes...

 

So added some better terminals a battery cut off switch and a starter cutoff as well...I wired the alarm of another constant power well as fuse box for memory so no loss there and someone can't cut power to mess with it...

I will put a cap for the battery switch that will keep it from being touched while daily driving then wheeling I will open access to t for quick shutoff should I roll or have a issue....

Also took it out on a little rougher run and its about time for a cage...its definently smooth the faster it goes and floats over stuff....

 

A couple videos from the other day
Front shocks need a bit more compression and a little less flutter stack slow speed....lol

1 jumping and the other up a NASTY steep hill



If anyone knows how to embed a video let me know....I seem to keep coming up short.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BAF4wqp92s

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjaqzhcxtEU

 

Got some new welding goggles from miller for those hard to see spots.

 

Stuck a yaesu ft-8800r ham radio in, going to mod the box.....

 

Made a roof rack and a light Mount to it for the 42" led light bar

 

Went and did some Wheeling today....

 

Truck is looking great man!!

 

Thanks...pretty amazed at its capabilities....was worried leafs would hinder me...

 

Wired the lights up today then took it out to aim them...
1 main reason I wanted to mount the light back a bit was to eliminate light scatter in dust and hood right on front of the windshield. As yo can see the hood is dark....which s a good thing...no matter what color your rig is its white and or dusty when its lit up by dust and light scatter right in front of you....
By setting it back it gives you a area of shadow to eliminate the scatter right in front of the windshield....
Iva had em up front and laid back on my old race track and prerunmers...from experience I'll set them back or make a shadow blind to make a dark spot right front of me.

 

So much pron in this thread..

 

.?pron...lol

Porn!!!
I see your spellcheckfu is strong.....as is mine...lol constantly misspelled or messed up words...my tablet here used all day and sits in the shop with me doing business...its seen a lot of use...