My slow build of "The little Taco that could"

Not any time soon, it'll all depend on what/if I break stuff on the waggy so I'll be putting the waggy in with leafs for now and see how I like it.


Edit: I foresee an ARB and maybe RCV shafts.

 

That's what I thought. I think it'll be absoutley fine on 35s...

 

Yeah if I get RCVs ill bump up to 37s and regear again

 

RCVs?

 

RCV Axle shafts for my 89 waggy

 

Very nice.

 

Nice build man and I love the tire carrier! Cant wait to see it SAS'ed!

 

Well not much of an update but I had the windshield replaced recently. Still gathering parts... Getting closer.

 

I got bored so I started to get the front bumper ready for the swap. I wanted a bumper with a front receiver so I created one adding to my existing one. I chopped the mounts off of my plating and reworked the winch mounting pushing everything about 2" forward(no pics of the process). I took off my XRC8 to mount it in the rear bumper (whenever I get to making one) and replaced to with a Ramsey Profile 9500. I wanted to have an in-cab winch controller... So I made one.

Switch is to "arm" the system and is Ignition hot
Red button is "in" and black is "out". Just like the Ramsey winch controller.

Was pretty simple really.

 

What a great build! I cant wait to see the SAS all complete. Then you could change her name to "The Little Taco That Did"

 

Subbed. I like this build

 

Got some goodies today



Getting closer money tree needs to grow faster.
And shocks for the rear...

12" travel

 

Installed the billies and now I need to re-relocate my shackle hanger so I can get the most droop.

Up travel is good. Went and flexed the rear and the tires still had room to move. Still need to get pics but I need to wait until it stops snowing and the weather clears up a bit.


Sorry for the crappy cell pics.

 

Rear shocks look good man.

 

Thanks. I was going to redo mine kinda like how yours is, but decided against it because the wheels go up as far as it did before when I flexed it up. Now I need to do what we were talking about with my rear shackle hangers for more droop. I'm happy with how it is, I'm not going to be jumping my truck.

 

I gotcha, bro... How close are those shocks to bottoming out on full compression?

 

About 4"

 

4"?!! You mean 4" of up-travel? That's not bad..

But have you seen how close the shocks get to bottoming out when your on the bumpstops? That's what I want to know..

 

great build! love your truck

 

Oh yeah I mean 4" of up travel. I haven't measured at full compression yet. Maybe tomorrow after the snow stops.