havnt posted here in a long time, update on the rig

Locked_N_Loaded wrote:

Shane, how did you make out on that bad idea hill climb and did you run the whole trail? I'm looking forward to a return trip to that trail when it's not cold and pouring down rain.

ive tried 3 or so times and have yet to make it. last two times it was wet and or snow on the ground. Honestly, the one time i could have made it ( I think ) but it felt bad and it seemed like my front end was raising up in the air but after walking it out i saw it was the last rock at the top my front was climbing.

Funny thing is thats just the beginning, to get out you have to climb a hill while rock climbing and said hill is at a 45 degree angle so you will be driving on your side to get up and out. Im making it this year. Only 3 people i have seen do it, otter and eric when it first opened the trail, and the dude with the power wagon with the extendable frame but even he rolled his rig on it. However he got it rolled back over and walked it on his 2nd try. its a bish.

this weather is pissing me off. I do all my work in the driveway and its supposed to get cold and rainy for the rest of the week :| Just had the 1410 put together on the 14bolt and now its dark so ill have to wait till tommorow to put that in and the rig should be movable again. So waiting on my front shaft to come in next week and ill be trail worthy again just need to finish up a few things. Need to make a bracket up for the tcase and install exhaust on the passenger side and add lights and remount my radiator and fan and im golden

sounds like fun do you have any videos of that trail?

thinga'ma'rig wrote:

sounds like fun do you have any videos of that trail?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gFXx6d_6WM horribile quality

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=54195931

We all winched into bad idea, rob bashed his transfer case into 3 pieces on the drop down into the tame section of the trail. If the "said hill" is what I'm thinking that's where i stood up in the air pretty good and ended up winching because it was so damn wet. We're all looking forward to a dry run on it but it hasn't lined up for us yet.

Don't know if you watched the MARR video yet but click the link on the top of the forum under the rausch stuff. There's a sweet clip of when rob is dropping in the first time it was run where he nearly flopped. I think it's like 3/4 through the vid

http://www.rc4x4.org/rcforum/index.php?PHPSESSID=9f7cb39f1d0ab096e231b66b812138c6&topic=2953.0

end over end on the spot where rob almost flopped...i'm confused

rear got light and the weight turned the wheels driver and it hooked and rolled it looks like. i have enough wheel base and clearence i can just drive off that side.

No more hanging up on the skid :lol:

started with this lol. Go go lake christy. this is why you dont do burn outs in the middle of the lake.



Had to cut the floor out to get it to fit.



cleaned up the floor and painted while i was at it






as you can tell, once the seats were in, its apparent that this was for a fullsize rig, stupid shifters :flame: oh well going to cut them off and re-angle them



Had AOI shorten the High angle shaft for me and upgrade the 14b to a 1410



honestly, i dont know if this was a good idea but i ran the breathers from the murder hole and they come up under the seat bar and i tie wrapped it there and they dump at the shifter, any suggestions?



Just an fyi, when cutting exhaust with a grinder, be careful. I almost set me, my rig and eric_N up in flame when i cut the fuel lines and molton hot magma came raining down on my parade



and now, the clearence





Also, rebuilt my 60 shaft joints, repacked the bearings, painted the entire rig



still have some things to finish up before bigdogs, need to remount my radiator, broke that trying to climb straight up a wall and failing horribly. replace the fan that broke when the radiator went into the pully's and weld up 2 pieces of tube to attempt to save my frame for 1 more year.

my path to big dogs is yet filled with more grief lol. Pulled the busted electric fan off the radiator and oh look at that, its got a hole in it :| My core support is broke in 4 places and the front clip is shifted by a few inchs haha.

so i trimed some metal, and placed a dual fan setup out of a taurus sho from crazy rays in front of the radiator and im going to the steel place to get some angle and some plate to reinforce the front clip.

looks like shit but meh it will look fine when i paint and put the grill back on



So tommorow i go and order another radiator, install that this week. OH good news, front shaft came in so i have tom woods front and rear shafts now. They are beefy as shit. So yea, i am tired of working on this truck now.