Been Lurking...now posting

[Loki]

Jack here...not really all that new, but new enough...here it goes.

88 Single Cab 22RE

Engine
- RC Engineering (rebuilt injectors/flow tested)
- Hot tanked my Throttle body/Plenum EGR stuff (thinking about EGR block off plates in the future)
- Cold Air Intake
- Pacesetter Headers (probably switching to LC Engineering Headers and flow through cats
- FlowMaster Exhaust (40 series dumped)
- Throttle Body Coolant bypass

Front Suspension
- Sky's Front SAS Hanger w/2" drop front
- All Pro 5" Springs
- 1" extended boomerang shackles
- 85 SFA Trussed, Knuckle Gussets, Knuckle Rebuild Kit, 88 IFS Hubs, FJ Rotors, IFS Calipers, Rock Rings, Backing Plate Eliminator, Diff Armor, Extended Braided break lines (all above parts from TG...I'm sure there's more)
- TG Hy-steer
- 14" Bilstein 5150s w/14" shock hoops

Rear Suspension
- 63" Chevy Springs with overload
- Chevy Swap kit
- Custom Rear 2" drop hangers to level out the truck
- 14" Bilstein 5150s

Front and Rear Gears are currently 4.10s open, but I'm going with either 4.88's with ARBs front and rear or 5.29's with Detroits front and rear (still haven't decided.) I have Diff Stud Eliminator kits for both the diffs

Tax Returning is buying me the following:
- Rims/Tires 15x10 Black Rock Crawler Rims covered in 37x12.50/15 MT/R (5 of them)
- LongFields
- Marlin's MC07 (2.28 Crawl Box w/Adapter) Unless I can find a top shift in good condition...then I'm going with the TG Adapter.

By February 15th I'll have the following:
- Sky's Widening kit
- TG's Longspline Front Drive shaft kit
- Dual Case Cross Member
- AllPro's Flatbed Kit

By March I'll have a JD3 Bender and enough Steel to build my Exo Hopefully. I already started a set of half doors, but I'm not buying sheet metal until March to finish them until it's time to order the tubing...that way I'll just have it delivered from ALCO all at one time. I'll probably pick up some diamond plating at the same time.

Here are some pictures of before i started...trail-master 5" IFS lift on 33's


And some progress on the build up...tax return is going to get me on the road


shot of the half doors i started


anyhow...just stopping through to make a mark in the newb forum

Loki

[blackdiamond]

Welcome!

I'm guessing you must already have a top shift and are having problems finding another used one to put with the TG adapter?

"Marlin's MC07 (2.28 Crawl Box w/Adapter) Unless I can find a top shift in good condition...then I'm going with the TG Adapter."

[Loki]

pretty much...i'll run a MCI Adapter with MC Crawl Box. i'm just wanting to get it done. I've heard good things about both companies and i'm not here to discuss the history.

[Rocksurfer]

SWEET RIG!!! 

[Loki]

Thanks...hopefully it will be once i roll it out of the garage

[Gittinit]

welcome to the forum!

[Loki]

thanks...after last night's posting here, i don't think i made the best of friends...

[DTB]

[fordh8r]

  to  Somewhat belated 

[Loki]

thanks h8r...i've been somewhat reading information on here and pbb for the better part of 2 years now, i just never saw a point in posting until i had a clue as to what i was doing.

[fordh8r]

I'm with you on that!  I stick to posting on things that I have personal dealings with and not with things I haven't done.....Such as some of these more extreme mods for suspenions and all. It's not that i'm any stranger to fab work. I do quite a bit of that. besides, I've said it before and i'll say it again "there is no such thing as the perfect rig because if there was they would all be built the same...BORING!    Build what you like!

[Loki]

i hear that. i do what i can, and try what i haven't to learn it...if i mess up along the way, i fix it learn from my mistakes and move on. i don't think there's a whole lot that i can't do with a little research and motivation...normally the motivation comes in 12 oz bottles :grin:

[fordh8r]

the motivation comes in 12 oz bottles :grin:

Amen to that brother! 

[Loki]

i'll eventually show some pictures of my rig on this site...i just need to get some better ones of it. like ones of my truck not sitting on jack stands getting built in my garage. but until that day...here's a little teaser of the axle i just got done rebuilding. just waiting for a few more parts to come in, then it's getting thrown under the bus

[fordh8r]

what's with the Fla. plates? 

[Loki]

um...it had those plates when i bought it...who knows...oh wait. i'm retarded, i gave that bed to a buddy, a truck he's parting out had those plates.

no smog laws in Fl.

[Tallchevy]

  40 miles north, south, east or west  Any recent pic's? 

[Loki]

click the signature link

i'm stationed at Travis AFB