Remember if you extend the rear, you will have to relocate the gas tank

 

i will most likely only extend the rear an 1" which i have an idea on that already and only an inch shouldn't have to many complications

 

my front and rear are welded, i am thinking thinner tires for a shorter width on trails and i think thinner tires would be easeir on the shafts

i think i damaged that joint at your house and finished it at OSTC cause i really wasn't doing anything that should've strained that joint that bad. But i was hoping the frt tires pretty hard in your sand pit that day

 

You have such clean lines on the B2 still, i wouldn't play with the rear too much. Instead move the front forward a few inches. It will help center the weight distribution and is easier to trim the front fenders and make it look nice still... plus you can climb straight up walls....

 

i really don't care about appearance, its about function

well looks like some changes are in store for Rough Neck

One of the cheapthrillers just bought a bender and chop saw and i'll be buying a knotcher and i already have a sweet welder. Time to start building some cages etc....to go along with my susp change, i'll probably start the tear down again this weekend. I am debating pulling the body off before starting the tear down but i'll probably just leave it on. Don't need to create more work for myself.

But what i have in store in the next two-three months will be (not necessary in this order)

1. extending the front axle atleast 3"
2. Build extented radius arms
3. Chrome moly axle shafts up front
4. Swap my explorer 8.8 with a Full Width 8.8
5. Roll Cage with 5 points (i already have one set of belts)
6. Rock sliders
7. Spare tire carrier
8. Possibly a roof rack
9. Ladder bars or similar in the rear to help with axle wrap
10. lower the trucks height atleast 2"s
11. relocate the battery to the rear
:nana:

 

and i forgot
12. On board air with converting my rear bumper to an air tank

 

Sounds sweet.

 

bitchin should be badass when your done

 

Sounds a lot like what i'm going to be doing.... you should umm move closer or find me a job over there... and school... and umm housing

 

lol...........i wish this state wasn't so wide lol, seems like everybody and everything is on the east side

 

Don't you mean the west side... or at least thats how it is for me

 

I would think that with everything you are going to add will lower it 2".oke::thumb::tonka::tonka:

 

it could, it could,


i need links to buy heims, joints etc online........

 

i find good prices on them on ebay a lot.

 

guess it just depends on what side your on,

 

looks like the doubler is coming back out of the box. I got a peice of an output shaft so i can redo the sector shaft. But this one is different. The output shaft i have is 4.25 inches long and is all splines. So i am going to try and find a shop that can respline the gear that way their would be no need for welding the shaft at all.

 

111.65:1

:woot:

 

Wow, a doubler, how did you build that ?

 

http://www.therangerstation.com/Magazine/spring07/BW1350_1354_doubler.htm

i built ealrier this year. It was awesome, i could start out in 5th gear in double low and that was when i had 3.73 gears, a tired ass motor and 36's. I don't know how awesome it will be with 4.88 gears and a strong motor. I had help from Nd4spd and Muddywater on the two sector shafts they help me build, but i snapped both of those. I just need to make a new shaft and make some design changes to how i built the first one. I went to an event with it and i was crawling hills alot of guys couldn't make and when they did make it they were rompin it pretty hard. I shove it in double low and walk right up with no wheel spin.

 

That is cool !!!

 

how are the sector shafts for strength? i started building one and the only thing i hear is people smoke that shaft and it's gonna be my DD so i quit workin on it.

 

i didn't have any problems with the shaft until i put the lo-unit in lo and the tcase in high, i busted two shafts before i learned i shouldn't have done that

 

you ever do any road driving with it? thoughts?

 

i drove from Middleville to k-zoo and back with the doubler in, drove fine, but thats the only pavement driving i did with it in

 

heres a pic i have been looking at quite a bit. When i redo my fronts i'll be building similar upper bucker as these, and i like how he reused some of the stock spring hangars elsewhere on the truck

for those that do not know this is "punishers" rig from B2.org

some of what he did with the susp in that pic didn't end up working out after running it on the trails. Such as i know he bent the frt radius arms (he now runs rockwells), but i am only really looking at his frt coil bucket set-up

 

this is making me drool......oh and yours looks good too :thumb:

 

Sweet !

 

timmay bought the bender he was talking about:rock:

 

hey john looks killer... I stretched my wheel base 3.5" moved the front axle forward. i wouldnt touch the rear then ull have to tub it and stuff.