Teasley4crawler builds a truck

[Teasley4Crawlers]

Starting my first build that I'm building with a cage that I'm tig welding myself.... I'm taking some guidelines and ideas from harley designs "woods runner" with a couple of my own twists.

My wife got me a tig welder for my birthday, so I decided to start a new build that I will try to make as many parts as I can for it with the tig welder.

[Teasley4Crawlers]

First day messing around with tig and some aluminum rod, not so easy

[Teasley4Crawlers]

Went to the metal yard and picked up some 3/16 steel rod for main part of the cage and 1/8 rod for other things

[Piatochaz]

Good on ya , I've always wanted to give it a shot myself , gives me some hope that it is possible lol, looks like you will be a natural in no time . Look forward to seeing some more progress,

Cheers!

[Teasley4Crawlers]

Thanks this is my first time tig welding so we will see how well it holds up..

That's enough for day 2

[rcwolf]

Looks great

Gonna be a bit heavy.

[Teasley4Crawlers]

Day three with the build.

Need to figure out where to go from here, (which body/ panels, tube front or body)

[Teasley4Crawlers]

Picked some bpc fab tabs, and I figured out what body I want

[Teasley4Crawlers]

Going to try using a bomber skid and see how it comes out.

[Highmark]

Looking good! You're moving a lot faster than I do.

[Piatochaz]

Didn't realize how different the Bomber skid was from the common wraith skid , good choice using the bomber one , it's unique and it suits this build . Nice progress so far, it's coming along nicely

[Teasley4Crawlers]

Thanks highmark it is moving right along.

Piatochaz: yeah I didn't know how different the skids were either until I picked it up, I've never built anything with trailing arms so that will be another first for this build also

[Teasley4Crawlers]

I think I'm going to just do a complete tube frame ultra/crawler instead

[Piatochaz]

Seeing as your going ultra/crawler Are you gunna make your own panels , or still stick with the Cruiser body ? , I suppose you could do a bit of both , I would be sure to use the grill/hood from the cruiser body as it would look wicked on ur chassis , Let me know ur thoughts

Cheers

[Teasley4Crawlers]

Idk yet still thinking about it both ways, I'm still leaning towards using some of the cruiser body on the front

[scaler44]

We going though here. I was wondering if this build is still alove


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[Teasley4Crawlers]

I still have it sitting out in the garage but never got any farther on the build. Not sure what to do with it.