Jons dcsb mid travel build and b.s

Jack handle holder and quick fists showed up today. I'll be making a shovel mount soon

 

This bad boy showed up today. It's a 20" single row from iggy a member on here. Quality on this thing is great and it's super bright. Can't wait to get it mounted up. Have some work to do this weekend!

 

Light bar installed I'll get some pictures at night up soon. Nice clean fit in the bumper and it provides a great pattern out in front of the truck

 

sub a dub dub looking good can't weight to see it again

 

Got the jack mounted for good. I'm now gonna add an axe to the bottom of the mount and a shovel to the top.

Also need to come up for a mount for my inbound CO2 set up from instant air supply and a mount for fuel storage

 

These showed up today in preparation of having on board air and tired of numb hands when airing down in the snow

 

Got the axe mount up and my oba set up from @InstantAirSupply showed up yesterday. Was able to get a mount made up for it this evening. Stoked to finally have my own air on board.

 

Went out and played in some snow yesterday had a blast. I was finally able to stretch out the truck and see how much down travel I'm getting in the rear. In the picture below I'm at 11.5" of shaft exposed in the shock which is giving me 6.5" of down travel with 5" of up travel. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out. Also the CO2 tank worked perfect. I was able to fill up 8 tires in the time a buddy filled up 2 with his air compressor.

 

Nice build man! What psi were you running at that one tire looks pretty squished!

 

Thanks man I normally air down to between 12-15 yesterday I was around 13psi

 

Lowest I've went is about 15. Next time out id like to go lower and try 12-13

 

Yea just depends on the conditions if I'm going down logging roads I'll just go down to 20 sand I'll go down to even lower like 9-10

 

In preparation for an rtt and also to relocate mybspare in preparation for 35s I started working on my bed rack this evening. I got the shape and size dialed in tonight which was the bulk of the mental work. Hope to make more progress on Sunday and have this thing complete in the next week or two.

Now onto some photos

Did a rough draft with some wood to get the gist of it then moved into the metal


I wedge cut the bends which makes for a stronger final product rather than cutting and welding the entire piece I only have to weld the sides
Also provides a nicer finish in my opinion

 

Wife just got home so I did a quick test fit on the truck and I'm happy. Turned out not too bad for only have the bed measurement to go off of since she was gone with the truck.

 

Here is a day light picture on my buddies 3rd gen I'll be mimicking this rack for his truck as well.

 

Second bar mocked up this evening. Worked on it in between painting and prepping trim for my house remodel. I'll be working on the house tomorrow and then back to the rack Sunday

 

Finished working on the house early and my dad didn't want to start on the base so instead we worked on my rack.

Here we are mocked up
With the rough shape

Then we flipped it on its head and made the center structure for the spare tire to mount up to


Next I removed the factory spare tire hanger from beneath the bed and relocated it to the rack

To get it to work in the channel we had to notch the channel

And mounted in its new home


Now a test fit with the tire

And then a test fit in the truck



Just have a few tweaks to make in the morning and then get it all burned in. Pretty stoked with out it turned out.

 

Wait, I don't have a third gen...... Just kidding. Great rack man. let me know if you decide to produce a 3rd one maybe slightly shorter I would be interested. Sub'd

 

Nice rig man!

 

Thanks lol I'm already making 3 I'll let ya know if I decide to make more