Taco4Dan93
2️⃣ Bronze
I am a little late on starting my build thread, but as the old saying goes, better late than never?
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I have recently put in quite a bit of work with my truck. But for starters I got rid of the carpet based floor mats and got me some Husky Liners! Great investment, and better than WeatherTech. In my opinion, just because I have WeatherTech in my car and where my right heel rest appears to be worn down through the liner itself. Also took off those mudflats as I knew they would be ripped off after the first trip anyways.
I was tired of that lag in throttle response, so I purchased a pedal commander. The quicker response is much nicer especially when ripping around the desert.
Enough of the boring content, on to the big changes, about 6 months ago I decided my first real change to the truck would be a mid-travel kit. Also got a little handsy with the sawzal
Suspension:
Front End--- I went with the ICON 2.5 CDCV shocks, and paired that with the Dirt King Fabrication Boxed upper and lower arms. I also chose to reinforce my coil buckets with their gusset kit, as well as the Total Chaos spindle gusset and cam gussets. The cam gussets were an after thought unfortunately but will be going on in the next couple weeks hopefully.
Rear End--- For the rear, I kept it all ICON and went with their Stage 2 RXT kit. I paired that with the Archive Garage hammer hangers as well as the bar to tie the frame rails in to really stiffen and tie it all in.
Wheels & Tires:
For the wheels I went with Stealth Custom Series F5 Series and wrapped them in 285/75/16 General Grabbers. Due to the larger tire size, a cab mount chop was in order. We had the material to make plates for the CMC. But at around $18 for a pair from Bay Area Metal Fab, I took the latter and bought them.
As of right now, there are many plans for the truck, such as lights, gears a tire gate and storage setups.
Having to do away with stock spare tire location leaves me with strapping my spare to the bed, but the Wilco Off-Road tire gate is in the budget for early next year. First thing will be 5.29 Nitro Gears installed by Pro Gear in San Diego. We have taken the 1741 JeepSpeed race truck there and have had stellar service!
Hoping to document most of this on Instagram and here, here are a couple pictures from the build thus far.
.I have recently put in quite a bit of work with my truck. But for starters I got rid of the carpet based floor mats and got me some Husky Liners! Great investment, and better than WeatherTech. In my opinion, just because I have WeatherTech in my car and where my right heel rest appears to be worn down through the liner itself. Also took off those mudflats as I knew they would be ripped off after the first trip anyways.
I was tired of that lag in throttle response, so I purchased a pedal commander. The quicker response is much nicer especially when ripping around the desert.
Enough of the boring content, on to the big changes, about 6 months ago I decided my first real change to the truck would be a mid-travel kit. Also got a little handsy with the sawzal
Suspension:
Front End--- I went with the ICON 2.5 CDCV shocks, and paired that with the Dirt King Fabrication Boxed upper and lower arms. I also chose to reinforce my coil buckets with their gusset kit, as well as the Total Chaos spindle gusset and cam gussets. The cam gussets were an after thought unfortunately but will be going on in the next couple weeks hopefully.
Rear End--- For the rear, I kept it all ICON and went with their Stage 2 RXT kit. I paired that with the Archive Garage hammer hangers as well as the bar to tie the frame rails in to really stiffen and tie it all in.
Wheels & Tires:
For the wheels I went with Stealth Custom Series F5 Series and wrapped them in 285/75/16 General Grabbers. Due to the larger tire size, a cab mount chop was in order. We had the material to make plates for the CMC. But at around $18 for a pair from Bay Area Metal Fab, I took the latter and bought them.
As of right now, there are many plans for the truck, such as lights, gears a tire gate and storage setups.
Having to do away with stock spare tire location leaves me with strapping my spare to the bed, but the Wilco Off-Road tire gate is in the budget for early next year. First thing will be 5.29 Nitro Gears installed by Pro Gear in San Diego. We have taken the 1741 JeepSpeed race truck there and have had stellar service!
Hoping to document most of this on Instagram and here, here are a couple pictures from the build thus far.
