NW WA Meet / BS Thread

Wow I appreciate all the offers guys, I should have posted here sooner! I don't have a garage as I am in an apartment right now, and my tools are all over in Eastern Washington. I'm having Mule Expeditions do the kit tomorrow. Hopefully we can link up on some excursions in the future.

 

Wish I had seen this sooner, sorry man! Post up some pics and your experience at ME.

 

I was over your way last weekend Mike... on the way to Sequim with the fam and in laws to the petting zoo thingy.

 

Put the AllPro bumper on I scored on ebay a while ago. Need to wire up plate lights.

 

Looks good Mike!! Glad to see it off the lift

 

That axle is sexy! I hope it performs as well as it looks

 

.. Whats everyone been up to??

 

finals stuff

 

Work, in-laws, surgery. Not quite in that order.

 

Waiting for parts still. My rear brackets are supposed to be on the dock, but I couldn't find them.
I'm 20th on the list for getting work done at the welding shop, hoping that means my front brackets are done by EOW. I would have done them myself but I wasn't sure if they were galvanized (turns out they are zinc plated, so just about the same level of me-not-doing-it)

 

Work, still dealing with the aftermath of the wrx fire, and getting some short campin trips in with the girl.

Truck build is waiting on my shock relocates and CMC plates which shipped out today.

 

I still haven't received a call or email back from Jerry since usps lost my relocate brackets that I had been waiting three months for at the time. He was going to send out another pair of them, that was several weeks ago. looks like I'm out $180 and I still need to figure out shock mounts. Kind of a lengthy and expensive lesson learned.

 

What a jerk off. I'm glad there are forums like this so people can share their shitty experiences with companies so nobody else has to go through that bs.

 

I had a bad experience with him too but not nearly as bad as you.. I feel really bad for you.

 

I had a good one with him. I had a bad experience with Relentless

 

Only bad one I had with him was when he was going through a rough patch and his other fab guy quit unexpectedly, other than that hes good just long wait times.

 

Oh Hai! not much, just working... driving along in my semi truck. gonna be home tomorrow to work on my truck a bit, i have a few parts, a few things i suppose i could get done. but waiting for parts and ordering parts, and waiting to build up the shopping cart so there's enough in there so i can get free shipping... etc. shopping is hard. Semi truck is going in for maintenance, and so what better time to take advantage of this time to tear apart some panels in the tacoma, and learn how things go together/come apart/how much room etc...

Would a face to face confrontation help? i am a semi truck driver and do get around the 'western 11' maybe if i showed up in his shop and started yelling, would that help?

Relentless Fabrication? i'm getting some roof mounting brackets made for me for the Rigid RDS 50" and yea, he does seem to be taking his time... i brought the lightbar down to him, he's had it a month now already. but in his defense, he was super busy. and he has to call a buddy with a Double cab to fit the lightbar... so i dunno.

 

Other than when he was virtually unknown (and I could get him to work on stuff for me in one of our driveways ), Relentless has always been busy. His response times fluctuate. For his sake, I really hope he hires a receptionist or something. Forum-goers will seriously bug you every day for a status report

In other news, I want to thank @northwesttaco for the Rebel Offroad recommendation - I even did a writeup on my experience

 

Im planning on calling them tomorrow for the same mounts! Did they have to custom make yours or is it just the new style of mounts that King uses? Glad you had a good experience with them! They were excellent when I was shopping for mine

 

It looks the same as the last set, just that they did the weld at the correct angle. More than anything, I think it was a quality control thing or some new guy, and they just said "new design" as a CYA.
I still have the old mounts and they are free for anyone who needs them, but you'd need a really good welder. They are TIG welded and zinc plated, so there's some nasty chemicals to watch for if you don't have some pro setup.