Mike's Mountain Build

Gears showed up.... Now its just a matter of waiting for a good window of opportunity to do the work

 

Nice

 

Been slacking on updating this thing.

Here's a little project I just did, figured I'd have a little fun and document it. No making fun of my workspace, I do everything in my shed, it's the only space I have for now and I've got 50 million tools shoved in there. Plus I did this while trying to prep dinner for the wife and kid, so I had to be quick, lol

Battery hold down modification to accomodate Diehard Platinum 34M

First, I lit the oven to preheat it for dinner, lol

Next, I cut off one of the battery guides


I used that old guide as a length template to mark a piece of 1/2" angle iron


Then I mocked it on the battery for fitment and made a mark


Then drilled a hole to spot weld through... didn't really need to do this, i was just following along the way it originally was assembled.


I spot welded through the hole, then also laid a bead for extra stability since this battery is bigger and heavier than the OEM size


All done, I hit it with some satin black rustoleum, waiting for that to dry to hit the other side then she gets installed... oh, I cleaned the whole thing up with a wire wheel before paint

 

broke out some pieces for the sliders and skids and slapped some paint on them... Using Rustoleum bed liner paint

 

Subbed! I'll be watching good looking dc.

 

No updates for a while, haven't had time in months to really get shit done on this pig...I have a stockpile of parts waiting to go on... I did manage to install an All Pro rear bumper, I'm severely lacking on photos, I'll try to catch up soon........So here's the latest:

Broke out the Lincoln welder and prepped the stanchions for the 4xInnovations sliders


Here's a list of parts sitting in the corner waiting for me to have free time:
Rock Sliders
All Pro Upper Control Arms
National Luna Battery Management kit
Bud Built Skidplates
Mean Green 200amp Alternator


Next item planned for purchase is most likely going to be an onboard air system of some kind

If it's not that, then it will be a Prinsu roof rack if he happens to come out with one any time soon for the 01-04 DC

Looking to get these sliders done by this friday.... more to follow with pics soon....

 

Sliders are on Woohoo.... I like them, of course I had to test them out after finishing up the welding


Went out and did a little camping after getting those on





The truck is progressing along slowly, and she does everything I want her to do so far... I plan to test it out on some more treacherous trails, possibly in the near future, depends how my schedule works out.

 

Let's go wheeling!

 

I'm trying broham.... Work sched and boss lady always in dah way and sheeeeit

 

Alternator is scheduled for delivery today, so that might get installed over the weekend along with the battery management system.

 

Oh snap! Didn't realize you had a build thread.