Dannyboy's Re-Registry

[Diff Whack Daddy]

boy Danny... that's scary... I would probably sh** in my pants at that moment.

That usually comes after you get the drivers seat out of your ass from the intense amount of pucker.

Who photoshoped the stool out of the picture? You know, the one that Froader used to get up on your tire.

 

[FROADER]

boy Danny... that's scary... I would probably sh** in my pants at that moment.

His girlfriend probably had the scariest ride (or maybe the dog) in that situation. She was in the rear pass. seat, which would have traveled the furthest. I think my 175lbs of beef lowered the whole truck about 1 foot too, so it was even higher than that.

 

[Dre]

heck, just looking at that picture makes me dizzy... I can't imagine how it feels once you're in the driver's seat.

got to join you guys for one of those Moab runs... for those once in a lifetime moments...

 

[james t]

I think my 175lbs of beef lowered the whole truck about 1 foot too, so it was even higher than that.

See, this is why i feed the hell out of my spotter. Ive got him up to around 280lbs.

 

[Dannyboy]

Tranny shop looked it over, found the tranny oil was cooked (no suprise, both times I ran this truck with the flex-a-lite fan the tranny spiked to 250 degrees. But I've got faith in the trusty tranny that is in there even if it did burn the oil, this thing is a tank.

We are trying out a different filter that should hopefully help the jumping out of gear.

 

[Dannyboy]

Well, I went wheelin on some moderate washes and then about 20 minutes down a pretty wicked road with some nasty whoops.

Somewhere along the way I compromised the steering. My buddy was in town and borrowed the truck and said the truck started to get real squirrely and the tires toed in pretty bad. It must have got damaged but didn't bend until he hit a pothole or something.

A quick inspection revealed that I bent my steering somehow, good news is that I picked up spare steering at the junkyard a few weeks ago.
It's amazing how fast the outer edge of my tire tread wore away after about 10 miles of alignment being off by about 6 inches.

 

[Dannyboy]

well, I'm way behind schedule for my front clip to be tied into the cage but I got everything else running good again.

Going to hold off and decide if something big needs to change before I tie the whole cage together. Why? Because I got my welder out and started repairing my radiator core. It's held up to the little bit of wheeling I've done in the last few weeks so I'm going to procrastinate.

Got my new junkyard steering on, new rotors, pads and my first seafoam taken care of. This thing is running pretty good for now.

Couple of fun pics, trashed steering and new "tow" duty of explorer. It's a little more fun to take this out to the desert instead of spending so much time in the super duty.

 

[Tbars4]

...:shifty_ey Hanging out at Lowes again???...:

...Nice bend job though...:biggthump

 

[R.J.]

does your car like to pop wheelies now?

 

[Dannyboy]

LOL, suprisingly it doesn't squat at all when I load up the bike like that.


So yesterday the woman and I went up to 4 peaks. Fun day, about an hour of fast running off road to a trail head at 5500 ft and hiked for a good 4 hours to about 7200 ft. Had another old goodyear lose a sidewall. I think they are cracking right where the agressive sidewall is. Either way, my pile o' tires is diminishing rather quickly. I think it might be time to actually buy a brand new set of rubber.

Found a nice position where mother nature didn't require a jack to change the tire at least.

 

[section525]

Hahahaha. Brilliant!

 

[james t]

You went hiking in flip-flops? Youz a bad ****! :

 

[Dannyboy]

LOL, no way man, I go froadin in flip flops! It's just bad for my image if I get photographed in athletic shoes LOL. This was a pretty long hike by my standards. I didn't know what I was going to be getting into, but even that elevation was a noticable on the air thinning. I read that it was a long hike and it may get cold. I was sporting a 20+lbs backpack of lunch, full camelback bladder + 2 reserve bottles, a couple sweatshirts, camera, etc to add on the weight. I've been toying with the idea of a overnight trip so I figured why not make this a practice run, it wasn't bad but I couldn't imagine how you could carry 2 days worth of gear on you especially something like a cold hike.


So back to the Exploder. I'm collecting parts and trying to put things together in order.
Got my sliders stripped and repainted from the 94, going to work at welding up mounts. This is a bit of a challenge as that truck's radius arms mounted way further back on the solid axle and forward on the TTB kit I had. Still going to use the receiver/removable style mounts.

I have a bent radius arm on the passenger side. Original mfg wants $700 for replacements, I'm going to attempt to make my own using larger/thicker stock, more bracing, more room for adjustment. I see no need for heims but am going to try to push the axle forward. The pass side is way far back being bent.

After thats done and fenders aren't getting crunched by tires I will be refinishing the orange fenders from Rick's truck and replacing what I have. Bump stops have been installed to eliminate some of the past crunching of wheel wells.

 

[Tbars4]

...It looks kind of empty back there with only one truck being worked on...:scratch:...Where are the axles? I know they were there before...:shifty_ey

 

[410Fortune]

Autofab $700 just for radius arms?????

You hiked high enough to almost be at my work elevation, 3' of snow up here on Saturday, knocked down about 1000 trees

LOL

Get some new tires man thats dangerous I am loving my MT Baja MTZ in the dirt and street

 

[Dannyboy]

...It looks kind of empty back there with only one truck being worked on...:scratch:...Where are the axles? I know they were there before...:shifty_ey

If you look close you will see the 8.8 rusting away.

The 44 is up against the wall behind some of the wood.

Dustin moved all his gear to WI, the enclosed trailer is gone, laundry room is 100% complete, new soffit on patio, new paint on patio floor, new stain on hot tub, this place is coming together since you were here Ted!

Autofab $700 just for radius arms?????

yuppers, John's stuff isn't cheap but it definitely takes a beating. I'm going to do a similar design, just can't budget that much for a set of radius arms, I've got a nice welder, can buy all the tools to make them for that kind of money.

Get some new tires man thats dangerous I am loving my MT Baja MTZ in the dirt and street

Probably going KM2's, just going to get the fenders all squared away so they don't hit the tires, then I'll decide if I want 33s, 35s or something metric on a 16 or 17.

 

[explornj]

wow the yard has really cleaned up since i was there, too bad i wasn't able to stay and do my swap out there

 

[Dannyboy]

I finally finished up the sliders today. The passenger side went on with a lot more strategy, the welds laid down better and the slider can move in and out much easier than the drivers side.

Much like Section525, I got a new "shop" when I decided to cover myself from the blasting sun and worked in the shade all day:

 

[section525]

You're so spoiled!

Do they slide in and out easily? We made removable steps for a Tacoma a while back and where they slid into the receivers were not quite parallel with eachother and it made for some difficult pinning.

Looks good so far.

 

[Dannyboy]

passenger side is perfect, drivers side is tough but works. It's exactly how the setup was on the white truck because the guy who welded the mounts on had it warp in...or at least I was told, I didn't even know how to turn a welder on back then.

This is my first big welding project short of little stuff and we shall see if they hold up. I jacked the truck up by the sliders and it holds so far!