Well I went and got myself an early Christmas present......on board air !!
I picked up a Viair 400H compressor.....Trailgear was had some sort of sale on so I jumped on it now. I got it all installed and got all my gear sorted out and tied down as well (spare, tools, etc...)
Picked up some used TG sliders on Island4x4.com and had to make some new tubes to mount them to the frame.
Got the frame plates welded in.
Installed on the truck, have them angled up (cant see well in pic) and out a little ways so that they will be good to tie the exo into later......just have to make a few small gussets to weld in at the tube/plate joint for extra strength.....in case I have to use hi-lift jack on them.
It sure is.....it took a long time and a lot of reading and research......I am VERY happy with how it turned out and what it is capable of......crawls and flexes awesome, the front driveshaft may be an issue but is one that cant be fixed.
Took it on its first beat down, shake down test run and it did awesome.....only problem I had was flexed it out to much in one spot and separated the front driveshaft......a quick winch to a safer spot and fixed it......awesome day....a lot of gnarly trails......a great test day
Well I went and got myself an early Christmas present......on board air !!
I picked up a Viair 400H compressor.....Trailgear was had some sort of sale on so I jumped on it now. I got it all installed and got all my gear sorted out and tied down as well (spare, tools, etc...)
Also adding a few pics from a Nanaimo Sidewinders club run from a couple weeks ago. Here is a link to the facebook club page https://www.facebook.com/nanaimosidewinders
Sorry for pics upside down.....something goofy when uploading to the site????
Picked up some used TG sliders on Island4x4.com and had to make some new tubes to mount them to the frame.
Got the frame plates welded in.
Installed on the truck, have them angled up (cant see well in pic) and out a little ways so that they will be good to tie the exo into later......just have to make a few small gussets to weld in at the tube/plate joint for extra strength.....in case I have to use hi-lift jack on them.
It sure is.....it took a long time and a lot of reading and research......I am VERY happy with how it turned out and what it is capable of......crawls and flexes awesome, the front driveshaft may be an issue but is one that cant be fixed.
Yes it was....we were doing a bunch of the trails at the top of Doumont and Boomerang....there is some some pretty nice tight trails up there.
Took it on its first beat down, shake down test run and it did awesome.....only problem I had was flexed it out to much in one spot and separated the front driveshaft......a quick winch to a safer spot and fixed it......awesome day....a lot of gnarly trails......a great test day