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Burrito Enthusiast
hey all, new here. ive been lurking for the past couple days. i actually came to be here because i saw this Tundra and cross searched it back to its source:
i think its completely ************. im a long time Jeep person and did the whole rock crawling and driving through places it was difficult, to hazardous to walk through. i recently became a dad, and upon news of this i sold my jeep for a more family oriented vehicle.
i did quite a bit of searching and came across one of these and picked it up back in July
not really, but my buddies do refer to my whale of a truck as the Red October.
*DISCLAIMER*
i'll go ahead and say that there are some frills to this build, quite a bit of cosmetic stuff that has no direction towards utility will be and has been performed. sorry if this isnt quite as rugged as a landrover or landcruiser build.
i picked up a 2010 F150 Super Crew FX4 with the 5.4L V8, 6-speed auto and 3.73 diffs. its a lot more truck than what i was looking for, but being a Ford share-holder entitled me to X-plan Factory pricing and i just couldnt resist getting $14,000 off sticker. unfortunately Raptors dont get factory pricing and this is why im stuck with this big red whale (happily)
my goal is to outfit my truck to tame most of the trails in the US that it will fit on, and to be able to get to the outreaches of civilization unmaimed and back again, along with being able to drive clear across the country without having to think about reliability or if it will make it. and most of all, look good doing it.
unfortunately, now having a female half and a almost born daughter - funds have dwindled to nearly nothing and will continue to be so. granted i know what good parts are and how to build something, so thankfully i wont be cutting corners and buying crappy stuff.
if anyone is curious, this is my old Jeep:
one of the first mods i did was to remove the stupid lug nut covers. i took them off and painted the hubs black
next was to remove the ugly, ugly chromed up tail lights for a set of raptors:
then i decided that i was going to keep the factory aluminum wheels. they're very strong, along with look good and not too big. they're 18" - im a fan of using smaller wheels (16's and 17's) but with how big the rotors and calipers are on this truck - special 17" wheels are the smallest you can go and tracking one down is expensive, not to mention look ugly. so since i was going to use the factory wheel with a 12.50" wide tire - wheel spacers where in order.
i dont know how many of you are familiar with wheel spacers, but i ran them on my jeep for a little over 70,000 miles and i thought they were great. not the best of ideas, but they're inexpensive and allows the re-use of already good looking wheels. so i called up Fred Goeske and he milled me a set of 1.5" wide spacers out of 6061-T6 heat treated aluminum
preparing to go on:
pre-spacer backspacing:
spacer on:
post-spacer backspacing:
so i gained a overall 3" increase in track width, which will be perfect for the 35x12.50's that im going to run to clear the suspension internals as well as adding stability.
i think its completely ************. im a long time Jeep person and did the whole rock crawling and driving through places it was difficult, to hazardous to walk through. i recently became a dad, and upon news of this i sold my jeep for a more family oriented vehicle.
i did quite a bit of searching and came across one of these and picked it up back in July
not really, but my buddies do refer to my whale of a truck as the Red October.
*DISCLAIMER*
i'll go ahead and say that there are some frills to this build, quite a bit of cosmetic stuff that has no direction towards utility will be and has been performed. sorry if this isnt quite as rugged as a landrover or landcruiser build.
i picked up a 2010 F150 Super Crew FX4 with the 5.4L V8, 6-speed auto and 3.73 diffs. its a lot more truck than what i was looking for, but being a Ford share-holder entitled me to X-plan Factory pricing and i just couldnt resist getting $14,000 off sticker. unfortunately Raptors dont get factory pricing and this is why im stuck with this big red whale (happily)
my goal is to outfit my truck to tame most of the trails in the US that it will fit on, and to be able to get to the outreaches of civilization unmaimed and back again, along with being able to drive clear across the country without having to think about reliability or if it will make it. and most of all, look good doing it.
unfortunately, now having a female half and a almost born daughter - funds have dwindled to nearly nothing and will continue to be so. granted i know what good parts are and how to build something, so thankfully i wont be cutting corners and buying crappy stuff.
if anyone is curious, this is my old Jeep:
one of the first mods i did was to remove the stupid lug nut covers. i took them off and painted the hubs black
next was to remove the ugly, ugly chromed up tail lights for a set of raptors:
then i decided that i was going to keep the factory aluminum wheels. they're very strong, along with look good and not too big. they're 18" - im a fan of using smaller wheels (16's and 17's) but with how big the rotors and calipers are on this truck - special 17" wheels are the smallest you can go and tracking one down is expensive, not to mention look ugly. so since i was going to use the factory wheel with a 12.50" wide tire - wheel spacers where in order.
i dont know how many of you are familiar with wheel spacers, but i ran them on my jeep for a little over 70,000 miles and i thought they were great. not the best of ideas, but they're inexpensive and allows the re-use of already good looking wheels. so i called up Fred Goeske and he milled me a set of 1.5" wide spacers out of 6061-T6 heat treated aluminum
preparing to go on:
pre-spacer backspacing:
spacer on:
post-spacer backspacing:
so i gained a overall 3" increase in track width, which will be perfect for the 35x12.50's that im going to run to clear the suspension internals as well as adding stability.
