Mega Ambo inspired the BoonDocter build or another ambo build

Well it all started about 4 years ago when i stumbled upon this site and saw the mega ambo. It sure got my creative juices flowing because i had been walking by this 1999 wheeled coach almost every day in an under ground parking lot. Needless to say i was hooked day dreaming about this build all the time. Well i found out who it belonged to and made offer (thats a hole other story i will probable tell later) took it to my shop rolled it in on the lift a proceeded to dismantle the hole front end. Once i discarded the beams and radius arms i just stared at it and made a list of things i needed to get it going YES! this is going to be awesome. And then it sat there for almost a year and i couldn't move it and it was in the way and i didnt have the time because i was also starting a new buisness and just didn't have the time. I was bummed but have to have priority's i guess and then just when i thought is was all over my son came to me and said lets build it for the new buisness vehicle and use it to display our products on it and i was so happy of coarse it sounded great we could totally do that and then he said and we will take it to sema in 5 months. What!!! are you frigging crazy after that sunk in it didn't seem all that impossible so we started are 5 month long build and this is where are build begins with a 99 wheeled coach mini mod with 7.3 .
stay tuned will be uploading more soon.
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cjken

Explorer
Nice!!
Did you change out the front end to the newer version??
I think I saw a picture of it with a different front clip.
 

patoz

Expedition Leader
Welcome to the forum, and looking forward to seeing where your build goes!

And remember, take lots of ... photographer.gif
 
Hay im going to kinda skim over the installation of the ujoint kit i think there is probably a few threads that have that in it. By the way thanks to Chris at ujoint for all the help getting it done he is a great wealth of info and his kit is awesome i definitely recommend getting the whole kit from him. Any way here we go with some pics.

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The dana 60 is out of a 2004 f350
 
At this point i was waiting to get all the axle parts in and powder coated housing. we where also waiting for full set of 8" lifted leaf springs from Atlas which took 8 weeks to get the was the longest so we started doing other things.
 

patoz

Expedition Leader
Looking good, and it's looks like you're doing it right too! I love the attention to detail.
 

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