96 cruise vessel build

[Rockcrawlintoy]

then he should make it right. he should be gettin a bed and makin it the way your old one was.

[kiyul4130]

why not file an insurance claim

flopp that. its a friend......

[ToYocRawleR]

Just cut the back half off thats bad and tube up and over and make a custom tail gate or something...

[Ramrod]

ill figure it out, most likely im not going to pay $250 for a bed on my own at least right now, if he doesnt pony up ill probably sport this bed to the hammers

[paulfinetti]

when did that happen, cuz we were with u guys in that camp site with that old camo jeep

[Austin W]

if he doesnt pony up ill probably sport this bed to the hammers

[Ramrod]

when did that happen, cuz we were with u guys in that camp site with that old camo jeep

when i was towing him out

[sloyota]

When did you go to Cow Mtn?Been try to get some other people up there,but i've just been going up there by myself.This winter made the waterfall a little bit harder.I've been wheeling with the local rif raf Ukiah locals,but it gets old real fast.Time to go flatbed,might be cheaper than buying a new bed,then you can dent the hell out of it and not have to worry about it...

[kiyul4130]

When did you go to Cow Mtn?Been try to get some other people up there,but i've just been going up there by myself.This winter made the waterfall a little bit harder.I've been wheeling with the local rif raf Ukiah locals,but it gets old real fast.Time to go flatbed,might be cheaper than buying a new bed,then you can dent the hell out of it and not have to worry about it...

you get a new diff in your junk? come up this weekend for the snow.?

[sloyota]

you get a new diff in your junk? come up this weekend for the snow.?

yeah,i had a new rear end that following week,cant make it up this weekend,but real soon i'll be up there.

[Ramrod]

just went up on saturday night at like 10 and came home the next day, flopp those ukiah locals blasting guns all night

[ToYocRawleR]

What was there a bunch of cowboys up there?

[Ramrod]

haha cowboys?  theres no cowboys in california, dirtbad POS whitetrashers yes

[gotrocks]

Hey man just a couple quick questions. 

What springs are you running and how are they holding up?  I have the Marlin 4" springs up front and have the same shackle style setup that you're running (mounted under the frame) and after only 2 runs my springs are already shot.  I have horrible bump steer.  My caster is at 7* and I know I need to fix that, but because the arch in the springs and the low height of the steering arms, I can't put in shims because the springs hit the tie rod.  Just wondering if you had any of these issues with you truck?

[Ramrod]

i have 6 leaf rears up front and a 5" shackle. springs are 31.5" apart instead of 29" like yours.  rides nice, no wobble except rarely with the 40's but they have water in them.  not sure exactly what my caster is but it drives pretty damn nice.  All of those are reasons why i didnt go with the stock toyota housing, i wanted this thing to be super beefy and drive just as nice on the road.  My rear spring are the old man emu dakar springs with the overloads removed and replace with 2 or three toyota leafs..........they are bent and tweaked as hell but have not broke yet, i wouldnt recommend them

[Hyena]

did you start on the links yet?  i need to order some tubing for kents buddy, do you want to order some right now?  we have none at the shop.  let me know soon!

[Ramrod]

yep last night we went through and cleand the out of the shop and moved a bunch of stuff around and parked the truck where it will be.  Today i got out there at like 530 and got everything pulled out of the back of the truck and the exhaust and torched everything off the axle.  I dont think i need anymore tubing right now i should be good with the 100ft i have. wont be able to work on the truck till friday but have fri,sat, sun, monday 100% off and devoted to the truck!!

[Hyena]

sweet, i didn't know the stuff billy picked up was for you too lol.

[Ramrod]

yep yep, ill get pics next time im out there, not much to see yet.  Frame was sitting at 25.5" with the 40's before and i dropped it down to 24.5" now as my hopefull rideheight

[gotrocks]

You doing a 3 link panhard setup or a triangulated 4 link?

[Ramrod]

wishbone 3 link using the stock tank in stock place gonna be sick, turns out i got tomorrow off from work and also next wed off so this is gonna get slapped together quick, also found another good bed for sale, probably swoop it up on fri

[kiyul4130]

same color bed? what did you have to do to the front in order to drop it another inch? sounds like this thing will be mobbin by next thursday... post up!

[Ramrod]

dont know about the bed color,  i didnt touch the front ill just link it anyways soon enough.  today i got the upper V link done, axle all cleaned up, built 220 extension cord.  coming along nice

[Ramrod]

just somehow accidentally started downloading 82 pics at once to myspace and it wont stop so i couldnt get photobucket to upload much right now so heres your pic for the night................so exciting

[Jud]

Thats alot of tubing!

[Ramrod]

210 feet in the pic!! more in the lower section of the shop!!!

[skipnrocks]

Ohhh all that tubing is beautifull!  I love building something out of a pile of nothing!

[THK Matt]

you would build with ? thats nothing....

[Ramrod]

you would build with ? thats nothing....

what are you trying to say?

[THK Matt]

he builds from "nothing" ...... is "nothing" but stanky!

but you build stuff... fo sho.