96 cruise vessel build

[THK Matt]

man that rear setup is tight bro, good fab man.





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[Ramrod]

sweet, the trailor is legit besides the wiring but after calens wiring demo i got in chico that wont be a problem.  You can definitly have the seat we were thinking of using the trailor as more of a backup for whatever rig broke between me and jake and the other one could run my 35's and drive one way or whatever

[kiyul4130]

im thinking this is the ticket if trailor stuff up here doesnt work out. ive got callens trailor, just not sure on a truck anymore....

[Ramrod]

been all fucked up the last couple days and busting ass the rest of the week trying to do homework for a class i just dropped anyways but today im going to drop of my driveshaft to get it remade my old one only had .25" of spline in at ride height and a stock one was 1.5" too long which means my wheelbase is like 4.5" longer than stock in the back. if im feeling up to it im going to finish of the upper coil mounts so i can flex this hog and get some shock mounts going

[THK Matt]

been all flopped up the last couple days and busting ass the rest of the week trying to do homework for a class i just dropped anyways but today im going to drop of my driveshaft to get it remade my old one only had .25" of spline in at ride height and a stock one was 1.5" too long which means my wheelbase is like 4.5" longer than stock in the back. if im feeling up to it im going to finish of the upper coil mounts so i can flex this hog and get some shock mounts going

[slabcs]

keep goin, that thing is going to be titties when it's set up

[Ramrod]

ya and my buddy that stole my bender ran out of tubing so i can now go steal it back but i cant be pulling on that thing for a little bit

[THK Matt]

but i cant be pulling on that thing for a little bit

[Ramrod]

pull on the arm of the bender, its pretty hard.  Check on my post in the chit chat section........i got some called paracardinitis which is basically swelling of the heart of something from a viral infection so im not realling supposed to do anything for a while untill it goes away, plus it hurts like hell if i try to do anything so im not going to anyways

[THK Matt]

pull on the arm of the bender, its pretty hard.  Check on my post in the chit chat section........i got some called paracardinitis which is basically swelling of the heart of something from a viral infection so im not realling supposed to do anything for a while untill it goes away, plus it hurts like hell if i try to do anything so im not going to anyways

oh damn bro! thats no good.
yeah heal up up first.

[Hyena]

get your truck done, who cares about your heart!  haha 

[Ramrod]

my new driveshaft is done being made and i also got a jam nut for my big heim so now have everything to finish the rear(hopefully)

[kiyul4130]

get your truck done, who cares about your heart!  haha 

HAHAHAHAHA. damn. that was bad. he'll make it through it. as for now the parties are startin to BLOW UP. im going back next door to the doobley kegger!

[Ramrod]

i told my parental unit i was going to chico on sunday night and coming home on tuesday and they were not having it

[kiyul4130]

i told my parental unit i was going to chico on sunday night and coming home on tuesday and they were not having it

dude, suposedly st. pattys is tomorrow cause the pope "moved" it to then. i dont know whats going on as far as people being out tomorrow and monday, im sure both days stuff might be going on...

[kiyul4130]

hahahaha. colby has been drinkin since ten. callen and him are here now. callen says your heart just has a bad valve. we'll bore it out dude and youll be good to red line it. port an polished.

[Ramrod]

you guys are dicks, partyn up there while im here all fucked up and even if i was good to go there probably wouldnt be to do

[Ramrod]

finally got to get a little time on it and luckily had some friends to help me out to take some of the load off, got some bolts tightend up and whipped out some upper coil mounts and it was ready for the forklift, did pretty good and im going to be able to mount my shocks outside of the frame like i wanted.  one thing im pissed about is that the lower link frame mounts from ballistic fab dont have enough room for the joint to flex at all so i might have to put some heims in there and use these links for my front end but it still works pretty good as is







upper coil mounts

shocks will slide right in there

[MiniSimp]

Nice! I like how it's equally balanced!

[Ramrod]

ya i was stoked on that also, the front is still working alot

[46&2]

Very nice work. Your taco is sick. Can't wait to see it in action on the trail 

[ToYocRawleR]

looks good!

[gotrocks]

looks good pat i like it

[skipnrocks]

Turned out pretty sweet!  how much air did you get under that rear tire?

[Ramrod]

probably like 4 feet, it was on the dirt and i didnt measure. im not too worried about flex because its not realy that important.  my old suspension probably wouldnt max out a 8" shock and i went everywhere with it like that, i just want stability and solidity(?)

[kiyul4130]

DAMN BOYEE!! ok, i manned up! looks good. you sure that shocks gunna squeeze in there between the tire/frame. i bet it will hit when on the trail. take one more of it from the side w/o being on the fork lift. can you tell its longer? i really gotta start working on mine soon. next week or something haha   

[Hyena]

hey, we have that same forklift at work!  

[kiyul4130]

hey, we have that same forklift at work! 

SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!      lol

[Ramrod]

that forklift is badass, pete hit a couch with it at fullspeed today..........toyotas only............ya a shock will squezz in there its going to be tilted forward pretty hard

[lilbuddy]

looks good dood