Project Crawln68 (New pics 12/11/05)

[crawln68]

Well....I rolled her out of the garage for the first time today. I feel like a proud daddy! I started this project back in November and I finally have the chassis ready for the body.

Here are the stats:

HO 5.0 EFI
NP435 to NP203/205 doubler
Full Width Heavy Duty 3/4 ton HP D44, 30 spline 4340 Moser axles w/ Super Yukon u-joints, Warn hubs
Full Width FF D60, 35 spline Yukon axles
5:13 R & P
ARB's front & rear
Stone Crusher Steering on top of High Steer arms
Saginaw pump to F-150 4x4 stering box
Four wheel disc brakes
5.5 Wild Horse Rock Crawler Spings and 5.5 11 leaf pack
CAGE extended Radius Arms
BC 24 gal rear tank w/skid plate
Rear axle is stretched back 4 inches
38.5 x 16 Swampers on 15 inch black steel rims
and a lot of custom fab work on the t-case crossmembers and rear frame crossmember, lower trac bar mount, ect...

 

[mp]

Guess I did not pay close enough attention. Can you show some pics of your rear crossmember fab as a reult of the 4" stretch? Did you have to modify Chucks tank at all? Do you forsee and problems with the high steer set up interferring with the front cross member? Any reason you did not kick the front end forward a couple inches?

Looks great, and gives me inspiration. I have a similar concept brewing in my head for my darkside EB.

 

[crawln68]

Did you modify the cross member for your rear axle stretch? What about fuel tank? Are you going with a cell in the bed? Are you going to have issues with the high sterr hitting the front cross member? I guess you could always move the front end forward a couple of inches too.

Looks great, and gives me insperation

Yes, I cut out the rear crossmember and fabbed a new one that gives me an extra 3 inches of height so the diff doesn't make contact. I am going to run a 2 inch body lift, so this gave me a little more room to move things up. I moved the crossmember and the gas tank back 4 inches to allow enough room to move the axle back. I considered going to a fuel cell, but I really didn't want to loose my bed. All of the steering linkages look like they will be fine. The pitman arm on the F-150 4x4 box is longer than the stock one. This puts the drag link behind the frame crossmember. ;D I won't know for sure until I get the body on and flex her up.

 

[MnkyBiz]

Wow wow wow!

I really want to start custom ground up one day!

Did you begin with a stock frame or with a Matkins?

Cheers on the great work!

 

[Blue71]

Holy Sheep SH!t...Man that thing looks great.

Blue71

 

[bigpappa]

Awsome Job. I am going to be doning basically the same thing to mine. Looking good, keep up the good work and keep posting pics!!!!

 

[Brewbro21]

That does look good. I hope to do a frame off on mine one day in the very distant future.

 

[crawln68]

Wow wow wow!

I really want to start custom ground up one day!

Did you begin with a stock frame or with a Matkins?

Cheers on the great work!

Thanks to all of you guys. MnkyBiz, I started with a rusty ol' stock frame. ;D

 

[Tgure]

Patrick,

That looks awesome. I like the contrast with the blue, black, and gray of the Cage arms. After seeing yours I should have not made everything black on mine %) Oh well can always take it apart again right? Keep up the good work ;D

 

[4x4Alaska]

SWEET!! I love the look of a tricked out rolling chassis...awesome job man...is the body ready for it? Man, I am slackin' in the garage. .

 

[crawln68]

SWEET!! I love the look of a tricked out rolling chassis...awesome job man...is the body ready for it? Man, I am slackin' in the garage. .

Thanks. Unfortunately the body needs quite a bit of work before it will be ready to put back on. I need to replace some sheet metal and throw a paint job on it first.

 

[agent_orange_71]

Hell fire, it took me 3 years to get that far. Looks really awesome. Keep up the good work.

 

[msuforeman]

Props to you Sir
















That's all I can say

 

[crawln68]

Well I made a little progess on my cowl today. In case you missed when I originaly posted pics of my cowl, this is what I started with.

 

[crawln68]

Here it is after I cut out the rusty windshield support and and cowl. Looks kind of wierd, huh?

 

[crawln68]

Here is the new windshield support. Yeah, that's looking better.

 

[crawln68]

And here it is with the new drivers side cowl in place. Lot of work! I'm done for tonight. Tomorrow I'll get the passenger side cowl in.

 

[Flash69]

Great job. Very impressive.

 

[Tgure]

Lookin good. Man you work fast. It is too damn hot here I can squeeze about 2 hours before I gotta go jump in the pool. %)

 

[MnkyBiz]

Look very clean!

If you are using the mass produced passenger side cowls, test fit her before you attempt to alter the original shape. The piece I purchased didn't fit my rig at all. I ended up having to look elsewhere.

Congratulations!