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Forgot i work saturday so wont have a ton of progress till sunday.
 












I wish my engine was out when I did the steering on my SAS. What a PITA!!!! That was by far the hardest part of my SAS.
 


















Yep it is, it will be joining us in colorado :) but lloks like u cant ride on road there so? it will be with us mainly for Moab
 






I'm liking the RZR, those things are pretty sic. You gotta find a way to put mattracks on it, that'd be pretty cool, too.
 






yea the RZR S is a good time, the regular ones are not quite as fun in my opinion there way tippy. I plan on modding it next year after i finish paying it off, wanna get the turbo kit, read somewhere is same power to weight ratio as Raptor 700R once you do the turbo, thats not bad for 2 seater side by side! Last night drove right by a cop and he didnt pull me over i was kinda surprised! No i have my slowing moving farm triangle so they can't say squat since we do have a farm.
 






Well its been quite the weekend, I had to work at my job Saturday all day, so I have been working on the explorer sunday and today. On Sunday i finished up a few things didnt do a whole lot. Went and rode my RZR for couple hours, took it out on motocross track I built on my friends farm, and there are 3 rythm doubles in a row, did those middle one shot me pretty high and nose dived in on it, was kinda scared! LOL
Today has been a long day, got up early let barking dog out, then changed oil in my escort, rotated tires, changed wipers, cleaned garage and tools up, went to our farm and hauled off some trash, went 25min drive to JeffersonCity , MO, switch out my torch tanks and welding tank, all empty, went and bought some 1in and larger wrenches, went to machine shop picked up ujoint thingy for my custom steering shaft, walmart bought oil to change my powestroke before we go to Colorado, OOOOOO and LOL took a little detour to Ford dealer and drove 2010 Mustang GT with 5spd, got it up to 120mph in 3rd or 4th gear? Fun Fun, and did 1 donut in it, then went to sonic lol came back told sales man wasnt fast enough. Came home and worked till now on explorer.
Sorry for my rambling its been a great day!!
 






This is all my jack will do, but should go about twice that.
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Also, Body lift is all bolted down now, engine is set in, front shocks on, custom steering shaft on, clutch slave cylinder in, center console out
 






























Well finally got my lift shackles today, wasnt to happy with Desert Rat ordered them July 21, said had them in stock, called today they werent shipped until 30th, but do show delivered at my house couple minutes ago, So I may go ahead and put those on tonight, i was wanting to throw the tranny up in it also.
 






dkchrist- I do plan on doing a turbo kit but not till next year, i need to get machine paid for before I go doing that, another is offered by MCX but im not sure who makes a better one yet, i will research when gets closer, i like the thought of that kinda power, will be a mean gravel road rally driving truck
 



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Update, put my Warrior shackles on rear tonight looks really good now leveled out, actually little higher in rear but once u ad bumper and rear tire should be close to level.
-Put tranny in tonight and hooked some wires up, I plan on hooking up as little as possible and trying to start engine to make sure it runs before going all out on hooking stuff up, i did pull plugs and spin the engine over, it had 100,x.. miles and came from 01 sport trac that was rolled on side.
 






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