Boomtacoma's other build.... Little Red 85

Gotta love the working Class...

 

Well my 5.29's finally came in last Friday. Should be taking the 3rd's to get regeared by the weekend.

 

The guy doing my diffs is really hooking me up along with the gears, his brother in law is going to help me with some/most of the welding on the red truck as well.

Cant wait.

 

This is very similar to my 85 build. When all done, nothing puts a bigger smile on your face than going over a 4 ft tall boulder and staying nearly level. . Can't wait to see the final product.

 

damn i hate you, ugh the jealousy!!!!!! i miss my 85' staight axle, i want one so bad now. I think im on the hunt for one now.

 

Working on getting another Detroit for the front as we speak. Pretty good deal though

 

Awesome truck

 

Thanks it will be a lot better really soon.

I have a LockRite for the front now so I will probably use that along with the stock front axles till I kill them. Then, Longs and the Detroit. Unless I un-ass the cash for the longs now.....

 

Well my diffs have been dropped off to be regeared and locked up as of last Saturday. I do believe that is the hardest part of my build.

I also found a buddy that let me have and 85 front axle to start adding my knuckle gussets, 3/8 spacer, top axle truss and ring gear diff armor to off the truck. My pimp Marlin HiSteer will be going on as well. He will be taking my stock one in trade. Excellent deal!

 

Well Ihave been doing some little stuff on the truck as of late.

This thing had a rats nest of wiring and a bunch of stuff that didnt work any mor under the hood. I took to it with a vengance.
Old alarm ...Gone, Cruise Control... gone. Baja lights... gone



I also cleaned up thetop end and installed some new vaccum lines.





I also took off the front bumper to get ready for the FROR stiffening bracket and rigged up the lights and liscense plate.



And installed my new Uniden 520 with PA



Should be getting my Ballistic battery box done this week and preped for install with my new Optima 34/78 Yellow Top.

 

Get goin!! This is my favorite thread.

 

Im trying guys. Cut me a little slack

 

absolutely not

 

In the third pic I posted above of the front without the bumper, you can see the front body mount has been pushed in about 3/16". I went to a certain friends house (The Yota Ranch) last night and sourced a new body mount to swap out in the mean time.

Looks like the cutting will begin and possibly end the weekend of July 10-17th. I cant wait

Since the 33's on the truck have been sold, I also had to find a new set of rollers for the red truck.

Picked up a set of 35/12.5/15 Goodyear MTR's (80 to 90 percent tread) for street use and have reserved a set of 37/12.5/16.5 Irocs for the trail.

I also figured out that cleaning the cold start injector helps out well....cold starts. That things was gunked up! Starts like a champ now. I might pick up a new one just because.

 

I almost forgot. I ordered a Blue Seas 5026 ST Blade fuse block and a Performance Plus Main power disconnect as well.

 

And remind me what your job is???

 

I work in Oil and Gas

 

pffft

*runs out quickly*

 

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We need an update on little Red!