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Old 01-18-2008, 01:33 PM   #81
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Mike I apologize. I don't know how I missed this thread! I saw your avatar and checked out your threads.......Nice work man,I love the color and soft top. MOMOCrawla is the bomb and those tops.
Fo shizzle my nizzle, I posted up here in the Ax-10 as I figured it would help some new members with there Xtrail build.

Yeah Terry's top is the shiznit, it really sets the body off from the others.
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Old 01-18-2008, 05:26 PM   #82
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That is deffinatly one of a kind. I like them wheel nuts and the topper. I cant believe how scale it looks.
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Old 01-18-2008, 05:46 PM   #83
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Very nice build I have to agree the it's a great total package....
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Old 01-19-2008, 12:32 PM   #84
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I'm glad to hear that it wheels well. Stu said his top made his a little too top heavy to wheel very well.
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Did you make the wheel nuts ?
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Old 01-20-2008, 10:49 PM   #86
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I'm glad to hear that it wheels well. Stu said his top made his a little too top heavy to wheel very well.
To be honest with you Terry, every scaler I won is a tank, Im used to wheeling them that way now that It doesnt really have a negative effect on me. Plus, with the full size 3300 up front its pretty balanced regardless of the topper and spare. In the end, its a scaler, I want it to wheel realistically not make insane comp lines...If I wanted to do that I'd bust out my SW3

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Did you make the wheel nuts ?
Negative, they are from a Kyosho 4Runner/Pathfinder, however a member on scale 4x4 makes some badass ones with a hub lock out too. Id give ya his name but he isnt a vendor here and I dont want to get him in trouble ;)


Today I spent the day in the garage, freezing my ass off, to start on my wild horse front bumper. I start out making the main bar, and the stinger part if you would call it that.



I am far from being good at tube work, I am certainly no Hulk Werks, Boyer, or people more recently such as greasypete and wrecker who have been throwing down some awesome tube work but I try my best...

I clamped the main bar down and angled the stinger how I wanted it. Added some flux, heated it up with my Mapp torch and some harris safety silv 56 and was good to go



The main bar and stinger is 3/16 solid rod, and for the angled parts I used 1/8 inch solid. Clamped the bumper in the vice, cut the pieces to length and grind the angles into them and using the 3rd hand brazed them into place



I really like Brandons scout here:Building on a Budget: My Scout X Trail and I liked his bumper/skid plate he made out of the stock high lift skid and I wanted to do something similar on mine. I found one Bronco in the wild horse catalog that had something like this so I did my best to model this bumper off it. I cut out the skid plate, if you will call it that, and bent the tubing around it



probably one of the hardest parts was brazing in the nuts that would hold the skid onto the bumper, as already stated, I am no pro as brazing and building tubed creations so I thread a bolt into the nut and held it in place with my 3rd hand and brazed it in the best I could



Nothing ever go simples and one of the bolts brazed itself into the nut so I broke it off then I drilled it out and re-tapped the nut



After that I brazed it in, took a 3 tries to get the angle right, but I finally got it where I wanted it



These next couple of pictures are HORRIBLE in quality... I learned that when the low battery indicator light starts flashing that my macro mode stops functioning and picture quality is in the shitter

so with that said, I brazed in the last 2 pieces to support the lower skid area and tie it into the best of the bumper



made 2 simple tabs off of the frame, and brazed the bumper on



tomorrow I will make the plate which will attach to the top skid plate bolt holes and will mount my winch to that. Then I need to take it all apart, wash off all the flux and get it into some paint.

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Old 01-21-2008, 07:04 AM   #87
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Looking great Mike.... I should have told you to take a picture of the new bumper on the truck with the body on it though, guess I was to tired to think of that
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Old 01-21-2008, 08:54 AM   #88
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Looking great Mike.... I should have told you to take a picture of the new bumper on the truck with the body on it though, guess I was to tired to think of that

Thanks Mike, if the damn camera betteries hadnt died I would have got one. I am going to get it cleaned up, painted and finished and get some better pics.
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Negative, they are from a Kyosho 4Runner/Pathfinder, however a member on scale 4x4 makes some badass ones with a hub lock out too. Id give ya his name but he isnt a vendor here and I dont want to get him in trouble ;)
Yes you can... he has a blue star now. Check it out!
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Old 01-21-2008, 03:26 PM   #90
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got it cleaned up, primed and painted. Made the mount for my winch too, but that needs paint still...




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Wow look awesome Mike, you did what only crossed my mind X2

What 3/16th rod did you use? Looks a lot cleaner than brake line. Bends nice too.
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Wow look awesome Mike, you did what only crossed my mind X2

What 3/16th rod did you use? Looks a lot cleaner than brake line. Bends nice too.

Yeah but this took me 4 hours to make Yours is simple, looks great and probably took 10% of what mine took so much for keeping this thing simple... I like it so much that I have been feeling compelled to go all out on it...well at least with what I have in the basement..once I get a job again its gonna be on like donkey kong

I gave up on brake line, I can never get the bends to look the way I want, they are to rounded and not tight enough, but if I make them tighter it kinks so now I use solid 90% of the time. I get it from home depot in their metal isle but the key to getting it bent right is all in the bender... made by the one and only Juggsterr


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Old 01-21-2008, 04:05 PM   #93
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geez Mike your making it so fancy I'd be afraid to drive it now
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Old 01-21-2008, 04:07 PM   #94
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Ahh I didn't read everything, didn't realize that was solid rod... That bumper probably balances out the weight of the top

I think I am going to start using SS rod, brakeline never bends well
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Old 01-21-2008, 04:11 PM   #95
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Sweet! This thing is officially off the chains! Front bumper is awesome...well the whole truck is!
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Hey, I'm thinking about getting the X-Trail and the hardware kit. What comes with the X-Trail; just the side plates? Also, what comes in the X-Trail Hardware Kit? Can you use this setup but with TLT axles without difficulty?
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Very nice build by the way!
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Can you use this setup but with TLT axles without difficulty?
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Did you get the hardware kit?
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Old 01-21-2008, 07:41 PM   #99
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geez Mike your making it so fancy I'd be afraid to drive it now

Nah, its a readily available lexan body so I will run it good

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Ahh I didn't read everything, didn't realize that was solid rod... That bumper probably balances out the weight of the top

I think I am going to start using SS rod, brakeline never bends well
Yeah, the solid bends much nicer, and it definitely helps offset the weight of the top and spare tire.

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Sweet! This thing is officially off the chains! Front bumper is awesome...well the whole truck is!
Thank you sir
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In this pic, if the body clip was not there, I would have looked 3 times, the realizm is amazing Mike, you are a true scale craftsman


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