The_Dealers Build Thread

[The_Dealer]

nah tellico is all closed up the gravel road going to it is open and there is a few side roads off it that cool to go down. but there turning the trails in to gravel roads.

im gonna be going up to mooresville in a few weeks if u wanna meet up we can get together. how far are u from troy?

rough design for the front. gonna try to tuck the winch down in the bumper as far as possible

 

[escort_gts]

sweet, when you going to start making it?

 

[4.0B2]

Not gonna wrap it around the body some?v

Good deal on having the bender and stuff tho!

 

[The_Dealer]

yea im gonna cut the front bottom part of the fender off and wrap it around. not too good at the program we were using lol. just trying to get a rough idea.

hopefully gonna get moved back into my house after the remodel this week, so ill have all my stuff there. sucks having to drive 20 miles to work on something. still gotta finish my taillight boxes. im doing the driveshaft and allignment this weekend, then prolly start on it. i bought alot of 1/4" plate in case i decide to throw the d30 i have in there with some leaves under it. not really sure about it. i know it will be stronger then my d28 and its already geared and locked, so thats a plus. im also toying with the idea of tbi for the 2.8. i can get all the stuff super cheap. and i cant really justify swapping out the 2.8 right now its running pretty good. just dont like the carb on cold starts

 

[84stealthranger]

im gonna be going up to mooresville in a few weeks if u wanna meet up we can get together. how far are u from troy?

rough design for the front. gonna try to tuck the winch down in the bumper as far as possible

im about 5 hours from troy nc lol http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
if thats where ur talking about.

 

[The_Dealer]

dang was gonna see if maybe u wanted to ride out to uwharrie and run some trails

 

[84stealthranger]

id really like to go out there. i found out today tho im gonna be getting the tranny fixed in my blazer so ill be able to get some more done to the ranger.

 

[The_Dealer]

well nothing much to report, got a new trans mount today. and im going to pick up a d35 in the next week or two, and i have an explorer console comming as well, and possibly an 8.8

went to the tire/rim store today and got a few prices.
its between 33x12.50 grabbers on pro comp 7031's or 33x13.50 mud grapplers on pro comp 7031's

gotta wait till i put the d35 in before i go 33's, im an idiot and ill go try out the tires and prolly explode the 28:icon_rofl:

 

[4.0B2]

better reason to upgrade. its called justification! lol

 

[escort_gts]

i'm sure you explode the d28 with 33's. I grenaded mine with 30's.
Why not get KM2's?

 

[disciplerocks]

I grenaded mine with 30's.

Me too.

Did you get your driveshaft figured out?

 

[The_Dealer]

i'm sure you explode the d28 with 33's. I grenaded mine with 30's.
Why not get KM2's?

i like the km2's, my dad just got em in a 35x12.50-17 for his lifted f150, and have heard nothing but good things about them, but ive been wanting to try out the grabbers and the mud grap's. plus the red letters of the grabbers are the tits


if i had the money i would get the 33" grabbers for road and 35" grapplers for trail

got my camber bushings in and they were a bitch lol. had to install them backwards because they were 2.75* neg, and 3.5* pos, and full neg wasnt enough. so i put em in backwards and i get a little neg camber. so tomorrow its off to the alignment house

 

[The_Dealer]

didnt have much time to work on the b2 this weekend, had to pressure wash my house before i could move back in. so while i had the pressure washer out i used some industrial degreaser on the frame and axles and all, and hit it with about 3000psi of steam and water. cleaned up really nice. so this week im going to throw some undercoating on everything and get it looking good. also couldnt get the overspray paint drip off of my rear plastic bumper ends, so sanded em down a sprayed some krylon fusion on them. look good as new. finished up my light boxes and have to powercoat them, then install the lights and they will be ready to go. also siliconed around my roof rack rails where they were leaking. dunno if it worked, but its going to rain tonight so ill see. gonna try to get some pics up this week.

 

[4x4b2]

this is one clean b2

 

[JoshT]

If you go with the grabbers let me know how you like them for off road around here. I am considering them for my 99 when I get new tires. I will probably be going with either the grabbers or an actual mud tire. Haven't decided yet since the truck is no longer a daily driver a real offroad tire wouldn't be so bad, but I would like to keep street manners so I will probably go back with something like the Grabbers. Either way it'll be more aggressive than the All terrains I have now.

 

[The_Dealer]

Well i sent payment for my shifter boot and bezel, and if that dont cover up the cuts in my carpet, im gonna take a piece of diamond plate and cut it out as a square as a "trim" piece. alignment shop also said i could go with another 1" in the front and be able to align. looks like its time to ditch the spacers and throw the jeep coils in and see how much i gotta cut em down. 21.5" free length. also when i get the d35 and throw it in im gonna get some f250 shock towers and some fox resi's at tax time, and stonecrusher steering if the drop pitman and jeep coils dont work. i would make my own steering but i aint good at all that math and shit. hopefully i can get my d35 and possibly 8.8 this weekend and expo center console.

been talking to the tire guy i use and i think im going with the pro comp 7031's in a 15x8 with 3.5" b/s

still on the fence about the tires. both the grabbers and grapplers run true, so im gonna trim up my fenders and throw the 1" maybe 2" body on and see how much room i have to play with. thought about the xterrains as well. had them on my ranger and really liked em. they measure a little small at 32.5"

anyways gonna try to get the wheels and tires in the next couple of weeks. should have alot of time this weekend to get my light boxes in and take alot of pics, and hopefully start on my sliders, then bumper

 

[The_Dealer]

still waiting on the shifter boots to come in, should be here any day. weather has been kinda bad this week so havent gotten to do too much. ordered my 8000k HID dual beam kit today. thats about the only updates i have

 

[4.0B2]

HID? reallly...??? okay..

and get the grabbers.. good rock, street, trail, really decent in the mud. KM2's are better for mud.

 

[The_Dealer]

Yea my h4 headlights suck ass and I live in the sticks, so I figured why not

 

[4.0B2]

Yea my h4 headlights suck ass and I live in the sticks, so I figured why not

sticks...okay. in town, it's annoying...