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Funny story. I was actually a Wildland Firefighter for 10 years for the BLM/FS, got hurt, and had to stop. Lucky, I had gone to school over the winters for mechanical engineering. I started with the company I worked for now in our manufacturing department on the floor of the machine shop. I...

I thought about cutting some of the door opening structure, but I really want to be able to run a 'full' door on this thing when I am done.... I will probably be building my own 2pc aluminum hard doors with sliding glass uppers like you would see in an old rover. Something like that. Do you...

Thank you for the compliments. I don't really know how I got started. I have always been a mechanical type person. I grew up in a small town in Idaho that was still stuck in the 70s during the 1990s. Kids bought trucks and cruised main. When you got bored with that you avoided 'town' by going...

You lost me...

I don't know....that is part of the problem. I am still driving it every day....that is the other part of the problem. My new truck should be done this year I hope....

I am going....slow..... That finishes up the 'pre-pull' work for the outriggers on the rocker guards for the passenger side. This took way longer than I though it would. I haven't been doing any marathons in the shop, but I try and get at least a hour a day. Tig welding...

Yup. I agree. Good stuff.

Yes, it changes things, but can and should be accounted for. With a 5/8" shaft it likely isn't a huge deal, but once you step up to the 7/8" stuff it gets about 2x as bad (or good?) I don't know how many people are running big boy shocks on oem style bolt in mounts. They are out there for some...

As I mentioned before, I don't think it can be traced back to a single issue, but rather to a combined list of factors... We generally know that most link suspensions start to have undesirable characteristics when operating outside of a certain window. This is why we can't typically lift...

Cool. I thought I would ask first. The main issue I see with captured coils, and/or zero preload, is the lack of 'control' in the suspension of that last few inches of extension. I think are few different things that stack together, which makes identifying the root cause a little challenging...

Interesting. I don't know if I agree, but I think you articulate (ha) your position well. I could expand if your curious, but I don't want to muddle up such a nice fab thread.

This A-pillar body mount tie in area is giving me fits.... The front of the factory body mount outrigger was fairly easy to make a body mount for. After removing the factory sandwich style mount in this area, I wanted to convert to a regular universal bushing assembly. That bushing will...

Do you think it is worth having the rear shocks be long enough to fully un-weight the rear coils? This would basically be zero, or negative, preload on the spring....

Small steps forward.... I finished the rough mock-in of the B-pillar frame side mounts. These brackets will also function as the outriggers for the rock sliders. I decided to use some frame pads for the mounts to attach to. This should allow me to pull the rocker assemblies and...

TIG welding is good at teaching patience! I was able to get a decent amount of welding done on the B-pillar body mounts. I still need to add a brace in the middle or something. I am still thinking on that one. I have to go around a flange on the body I may just elect to just weld this entire...

Little bit.... Th These are the start of the rear body mounts. These will basically bolt to the floor pads that I built into the B-pillar structure. These not only will provide the body mount for the rear of the body, they will also be the 'cage' tie-in at that location. The isolation will...

Making some B-pillar body mounting bracket things... Overall I think this is turning out pretty well. I have at least another few hours in welding to do....

Trying to get back at it.... I finished making the main B-pillar U-structure. This is the 1st part for the cage structure. The small tube at the top is just a temp fill to keep everything square, I had some slight pulling from the welding which needed to be managed. This structure...

Ok.....one last time to find some weights! I should really be building but this is so annoying I had to get some numbers I had some faith in. This time I busted out the big guns and brought home some certified wheel scales from work! The weights from this method of measuring are as...

I'm not trying to turn it into a jeep vs toyota thing. I have BOTH. I am building a really fun FJ45-esk custom truck build on an 80-series chassis right now. http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/154652-Blender-My-LX450-FZJ80-FJ45esk-GM-Land-Rover-crazy-concoction I don't understand...