The Expo Golf Cart

Welded on my BAMF sliders a few weeks ago, here are some pics.

Straight from the factory.


Tacking on the frame plates and gussets.


A couple coats of primer.


A couple coats of black with a splash of red.


Then the permanent attachment.


In the vicinity of the Utah/Wyoming/Colorado border.

 

Sub. Love that tire size. I'm thinking it may be my next size

 

So far it's been a good choice...although, I have been searching the local classifieds for some good/cheap used 295/75's just to see if I can fit them without too much trimming

 

I've got 265/75/16 now and I really want full 33" rather than the ~32" I've got now

 

how did you manage your front bumper with the body lift?

 

I still have a 1" gap as of now, but I intend to re-drill new mounting bolt locations on the bumper mount/crush box when I add a new front cross member to my frame. In fact just picked up the steel today, planning on pulling out the welder in the morning.

 

Sweet truck! Jealous of the mileage. How do you like the skids from RAT? Also, cool shell.

 

Thanks, super happy about the mileage too The skids have held up great so far, and I have come down on them pretty hard more than once. I am planning on adding a piece or two of angle iron to the transfer skid just to beef it up a bit, don't know if they need it or not but it will give me a better piece of mind.

 

Got quite a few things done over the past few days.

First, took the plastic liner out of the bed.


Then took the bed off and prepped it for some rubberized liner.


Rolled on a few coats.


And back to the frame.
Yanked out the spare tire carrier, cut off the upper shock mounts, removed the lowers with the axle brackets, sized up some frame plates and installed a Marlin flip kit.


Boxing the Frame.


Melted some new lower shock mounts to the axle and added a rear crossmember.


Upper shock mounts and another crossmember.


A few coats of overnight paint.


Added a Flowmaster Delta Flow 50 series. It was quite fun welding with .035 in the wind on exhaust pipe. Ugly welds but no leaks, so whatever.


All buttoned up although, I might add some new exhaust pipe later.

 

More work over the weekend.

Started by taking off the front bumper to get to the end caps.


Cut those weak bastards off.


While I had access, I added some more spot welds to these bolts,


and cleaned up the area for the new angle iron.


Welded some high grade nuts to the back of the new metal.
Old vs. new.


Angle welded in and a few rosettes added on the side.


Then welded in a new crossmember in the dark.


Ready for the bumper to go back on.


But first...
The body lift that I installed a while back left a pretty big gap to the bumper.


So I drilled out some new bolt locations to lift it back up.



Voila, no more gap.

 

Finally tracked down all the parts I needed to swap out the seats.

Goodbye bench, you will be missed.


Everything out.


Hello storage space.


All finished.

 

awesome truck, how are your CV angles with the 882's ?

 

Thanks, they are a little high and some fins are touching but I'm not worried about them.

 

Looks great, i so want to get rid of my bench seat, what did you get your seats/ center console out of?

 

I got the seats off a local classified for $30.00 and the console off eBay for around $70.00. The seatbelts (female ends) I had to buy new, I think they were $30.00 each. It took quite a few months of searching with the elusive console taking the longest, I got super lucky and was bidding on another one when a buy it now one popped up for way cheaper.

 

Some badassery up in here.

Dunno who gave it 2 stars but I fixed that shit. Nice truck.

 

Haha, 2 stars was reasonable. I've really only slapped on some bolt-on stuff, but thank you

 

looking good man!

 

Sweet build! How do you like the Delta 50? Is it mild in the cab?

 

Sweet rig! Digging the tire setup.