WOW! well here it goes 1997 v-8 AWD

[lounge lizard]

and now post media blasting.

now I just have to pull the u-joints, clean up in between everything and install the new joints. oh! and paint the whole set up!

 

[NHarris]

Any updates?

 

[Joe Dirt]

I concur- any updates? I want to see that axle under there!

 

[lounge lizard]

well,

right now I'm working from 7:00 A.M. till about 8:00 ish P.M. so I haven't had a lot of time to go in the garage.
the last time I was really in there I redid my lighting because I picked some up from the renovation we are doing at work.

the drive shaft is still wrapped up and sitting in a safe place waiting for the paint and rebuild.

 

[Baddecision93]

Hey Lounge...just found your registry. You have the car seat mod too!

 

[jfiato]

subscribing

 

[lounge lizard]

car seat mod ? I have a portable one! for my son! LOL

no real updates on this, haven't had time to do anything. I did look at it the other day when I was down in the garage.

did get my frame cover on the truck and got that squared away but I hurt my back and have been taking it easy so I can still go to work

 

[Baddecision93]

Trust me, it's cooler to call the car seat a mod...

It's all about spin - oh ya, that seat adds like 5# of weight for traction. I can even move it to one of three positions for enhanced weight distribution, based on the terrain I'm riding.
See, spin?

 

[lounge lizard]

I gotcha!
and mine has cup holders too!

next is the new speakers I have for the back and to get the sub box out of the truck. I think it's going to be a bad trade off, but we will see!

now that the weather is starting to break I will be able to pull the drive shaft out of hiding and start to break it down.

I still have to get my spring buckets shipped to me. and I have to finish my gap guards that I started with the front end frame cover.

 

[lounge lizard]

so today,

I put on some gap covers I made for the rear wheel wells on my explorer to hide the body lift.

it was easy to do and free which is a very good price.

gap in driver side wheel well before cover.

and now the cover installed.

and here is a picture of the passenger side cover installed.

 

[lounge lizard]

Oh!
I forgot!

I did get my new speakers installed and I posted a thread in the audio section. and they sound great! they really get loud, but very clean. just what I wanted and didn't expect to get from these speakers.

 

[Baddecision93]

Nice, nice.

Do my eyes deceive or is that an old bedliner?

You should get a far away profile shot so we can see the difference it makes from a glancing distance. (See, I'm going to ask you for so many annoying pics that you're just going to want to get an Elite membership to cut out the photobucket work, lol).

 

[lounge lizard]

Naw!
I found out yesterday that I made them too long and I have to shorten them some. when the truck goes over bumps and bottoms the suspension it hit the cover.

so I have to do a trim job first.

 

[lounge lizard]

so I made the modification to the gap covers.

and here is the profile picture you wanted! LOL

 

[Baddecision93]

Didn't waste any time, did you?

Atta boy, Lounge!

 

[lounge lizard]

I'm trying to clean up the garage from doing mods all winter and not finishing up on the things I had to remove .
so after the body lift and bumper modification I still had to modify my hitch mount. so I started working on that this weekend. I cut a new cross tube to mount to the frame. and I got the actual hitch tube cut out from the old tube. and welded the two back together.

next I have to cut some corner pieces on 45* angles to weld in the corners.

after that I have to cut some plate to put on top of the tubes and bend them to go back to the frame for two more bolts on the frame.

and I need bigger bolts in the corner where the tubes meet the frame.

 

[lounge lizard]

o.k.
so I got the corner fillers burned in and I cut my rear mounting tabs so I could get them burned on the hitch mounting tube.

here is the corner in the middle of welding.

so I did them mostly the other night when it was nice out.

today before it started raining I got the mounting tabs located.

and I got those burned in and welded up nice and tight. even got the chance to paint it before I put it up in place for the last time.

and here it is. as I was hanging it up in place on the explorer it started to rain.

so another job out of the garage and back on the truck were it belongs!

 

[Baddecision93]

Looks good! Keeping on it I see.

 

[lounge lizard]

got to!

need to get this thing done and out of the garage. I got so much stuff in there that should be on the truck or gone.

and I just don't have everything that I need to finish.

 

[Baddecision93]

So is money or time the limiting factor lol?

They are both working against me!