Project Crawln68 Unveiling!

[Buckin74]

Crawln68

Great job --- It does get the juices running for us all to keep up on our projects. You've done more than a lot of us to make a good rig even better !

Thanks for all the pic's and the progress along the way

 

[Broncoman]

Man that thing looks mean. VERY nice work.

 

[crawln68]

Thanks everyone! It was a long year and a half but it is definitely well worth it now. I still have a lot little things to do, but I think I'm 90% there.

 

[crawln68]

Are thos cage arms under that thing? what other suspension parts did you use? looks great man!

Yeah CAGE arms and CAGE 14 inch travel shocks. WH 5.5 rock crawler springs and WH 5.5 11 leaf pack and a 2 inch body lift.

 

[FFMDX]

Patrick, Congrats! She looks kickin! Glad to see all of your work paying off ;D I just had my Boss (Wife) look at your pix, and I just got permission for full width! Familyman's rig broke the ice, and yours' sealed the deal

Sean

 

[JWMcCrary]

Man, it looks great.

What does your "left to do" list look like?

 

[JWMcCrary]

First post, picture to the right is a keeper for next years calendar ! Truck looks great !

Any one of those first three are calender worthy.

 

[crawln68]

Patrick, Congrats! She looks kickin! Glad to see all of your work paying off ;D I just had my Boss (Wife) look at your pix, and I just got permission for full width! Familyman's rig broke the ice, and yours' sealed the deal

Sean

WOOHOOO!!! Glad I could help! Let the work begin. What axles do you think you want to go with? Let me know if I can help. I think I smell a work party!?

 

[crawln68]

Man, it looks great.

What does your "left to do" list look like?

1. Install soft top
2. Build front bumper and install winch
3. Modify rear bumper to accept 8 lug wheel for spare
4. On board air system
5. Build rock sliders
6. Build summer doors out of a set of full doors
7. Restore and paint a set of full doors
8. Paint hood
9. Rebuild NP205 :'(
10. Get 5.0 running correctly (wiring problem I think)
11. Paint and recover back seat
12. Build trailer out of an old tub that I have

I think I could go on and on forever. But it sure is fun!

 

[Yellow76]

Nice job! What backspacing are your wheels? I like the stance and width. Keep up the good work.

 

[FFMDX]

WOOHOOO!!! Glad I could help! Let the work begin. What axles do you think you want to go with? Let me know if I can help.

Well, being you're my new perpiration....um...inspiration...I like your set-up with the 3/4 d-44 and 60, although 60's front and rear like FM's is still lingering. Kinda siding with the 44 only for space reasons (ram clearance esp). It's a little ways from now, but if "something" comes up, the time to start asking for "forgiveness" and then permission ;D

Sean

 

[ORVP]

Great Gob.

;D Great to feel the trail under your shoes! Very clean job. Paint is very close to my color. Mine was painted by PO so I have no idea what color is really is. I will have to get a color sample match since my wife says I can't change the color when repaint.

 

[crawln68]

Nice job! What backspacing are your wheels? I like the stance and width. Keep up the good work.

If I remember correctly, they are about 3 inches of back spacing. I can measure tonight if you would like. I would have liked a little more, but I am running the big dual piston Ford front calipers and had to do some grinding to make these fit with 3 inches of back spacing. Any more and I would have had to grind half of the caliper off.

 

[bigpappa]

Awesome Job there Crawln!!!! I am building something simular I hope mine turns out as good!!!!! ;D

 

[beerthirty]

WOW that looks great, now its time to wheel it ;D

 

[daddyg]

That is one sweet lookin pony.. Good luck with the rest..

 

[Bator]

L@@Ks really great! Good Job! ;D

 

[Flash69]

Great Job. I bet you feel like a proud new Daddy.

 

[Fugly]

WOW looks awesome!!! Did you run into any problems with your cage arm mounts interferring with your transfer case cross member? I was checking out your pix and it looks like everything was a tight fit in that area. I am just wondering because I am going to be running a similar setup.(cage arms, C6/203/205 doubler)
Thanks

 

[crawln68]

WOW looks awesome!!! Did you run into any problems with your cage arm mounts interferring with your transfer case cross member? I was checking out your pix and it looks like everything was a tight fit in that area. I am just wondering because I am going to be running a similar setup.(cage arms, C6/203/205 doubler)
Thanks

No interference yet, although I took it pretty easy on the first run. I need to find someone with a RTI ramp or a forklift to flex her up and see how everything looks.