SlomoCrawlz
Rock Stacker
My big fat JK build
decided to treat myself to a new truck after working my butt off over the last year.
between buying a house, having 2 crazy children. starting a new job and trying to start my own small business.. I have had zero time to sit back and enjoy the fruits of my labors (ya know..typical dad life)
with the new year starting. i decided to slice myself off a chunck of change to build myself a new truck and treat the wife to a trip to chicago for her and a friend to get away for a while (ie give myself some time to order a rediculous ammount of cool goodies for my build before she found out HOW much i was spending
)
while i really wanted to go "balls deep" as i started adding everything i ever wanted to my truck my penny pinching got the best of me on a few parts (no currie axles..i play to hard and couldnt come to terms with tearing up such beautiful pieces of art) i wanted a great looking truck that was well built and stylish but competent on the trails and courses.
probably goes without surprise my base for the build to start things off
first up for improvement was the driveline and transmission. chose to go with the rrp gears.
upon opening my parts tree from the kit i bumed to find a defect in one of the center outdrives gear mount holes and is only holding with 2 of the 3 bolts. so i will be switching to the hot racing solid outdrive when it arives next week.
up next was the axles **spoiler alert. who sees the panhard bar
**
waiting for hot racing spools to get back in stock to finish out the internals but needed them together for my links
i chose to go with the diy route even tho the kit does come with the upgraded lowers, I wanted something more custom. these are are 3/16 steel with revo rod ends. the links will be powder coating black before build finish.
vp and proline goodies
decided to go with the Proline Denali wheels. yes ther plastic but i like the looks and a few bucks saved for other upgrades.
just got these in the mail yesterday so these will be going on tonight.
roller status
bmrc cms and panhard. have heard good and bad but im willing to give it a try.
decided to treat myself to a new truck after working my butt off over the last year.
between buying a house, having 2 crazy children. starting a new job and trying to start my own small business.. I have had zero time to sit back and enjoy the fruits of my labors (ya know..typical dad life)
with the new year starting. i decided to slice myself off a chunck of change to build myself a new truck and treat the wife to a trip to chicago for her and a friend to get away for a while (ie give myself some time to order a rediculous ammount of cool goodies for my build before she found out HOW much i was spending
)while i really wanted to go "balls deep" as i started adding everything i ever wanted to my truck my penny pinching got the best of me on a few parts (no currie axles..i play to hard and couldnt come to terms with tearing up such beautiful pieces of art) i wanted a great looking truck that was well built and stylish but competent on the trails and courses.
probably goes without surprise my base for the build to start things off
first up for improvement was the driveline and transmission. chose to go with the rrp gears.
upon opening my parts tree from the kit i bumed to find a defect in one of the center outdrives gear mount holes and is only holding with 2 of the 3 bolts. so i will be switching to the hot racing solid outdrive when it arives next week.
up next was the axles **spoiler alert. who sees the panhard bar
**
waiting for hot racing spools to get back in stock to finish out the internals but needed them together for my links
i chose to go with the diy route even tho the kit does come with the upgraded lowers, I wanted something more custom. these are are 3/16 steel with revo rod ends. the links will be powder coating black before build finish.
vp and proline goodies
decided to go with the Proline Denali wheels. yes ther plastic but i like the looks and a few bucks saved for other upgrades.
just got these in the mail yesterday so these will be going on tonight.
roller status
bmrc cms and panhard. have heard good and bad but im willing to give it a try.
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