Recent content by DesertGoat

nice dude, what an accomplishment. so would you do it again?

it freaks me out, too. But this is the solution Cho offered. The wheelbase is pushed as far forward as possible because I have ~the same clearance to the pitman arm bolt at full lock in the opposite direction. so the only other option would be to bend the tie rod, cut & move the steering box...

nice! congratulations. How was the rally, generally? any issues?

Got a few sessions in on the truck - focused back on the front suspension cycling & all of its interfaces. had a few issues & here's how i dealt with them: Radius arm relative height to beam pivots was wrong. remember, i have a ~91 4x4 frame up front and a 74 frame under the cab Fixed by...

I literally use a ryobi battery hand drill with my holesaw notcher & very rarely have catching problems. wd40 for lube, click that lower gear on the drill & keep the pressure high.

+1 vote for the JDsquared holesaw notcher & angle grinder. Ameribrade would be dope, but that's a very spendy tool. for angle-finding, ain't no way i'm going to be doing calcs - but a long time ago I made a quick tool using 2 metal rulers bolted together with just the perfect amount of tension...

hell yeah. I'm a huge supporter of factory dashes - that looks super good with how it fits the cage!

nice, dude. That color is pretty sweet & i think even with a few runs & icicles you're still well above par for off road rigs. What're the deets on that blow-up? definitely looks like a bounce house at first glance. she a rental?

Starting to throw tubes again! Added a little X to the center section of my cab cage. Moving to re-investigate the suspension & steering system next - i think i have to relocate my radius arms & it's going to heckin' wreck the a-pillar kick. Also helped a friend hang his rancher bumper on a...

fusion360 for my quickie projects (also free for non-monetized use) My preference would be Siemens NX but it's not free.

And thank you very much for selling it to me, buddy :) But +1 to what Bodj suggested, if the thing I want cut is some nebulous shape I'll use CAD (Cardboard aided design), then scan it, then use fusion360 to draw on it & create the g-code for the crossfire then bam. the process isn't toooo much...

it was the smallest legally defined 2 car garage possible (20x22) with a ~5-6 ft sloped driveway right in front of it. definitely made it work & was happy to have it for the ~9 years I lived there. But a real shop with a lift has been on my brain for long time & this weekend i put my old truck...

so this trip is dead, right?

for the hell of it, since it's my thread.... i went down memory lane circa 2018 to find a picture of my old bumpside in the Torrance garage where I finished that thing. The pallet rack behind the truck in this picture is the same one as the rack behind the red truck in the previous image. to...

passed final inspection! Started moving stuff in & getting a feel for layout. gotta work up some more storage & organization solutions. I have one small pallet rack / shelving thing leftover from when I lived in Torrance and it's laughably small relative to how much space it used up in my old...