Straight to work I see! Looking good and I'll be following this build with interest...

Can't wait to see the lift and bigger tires installed.

 

Yup. Try being stuck in a two sailing wait - you're 2 hour crossing turns into a 6 hour ordeal...

If you're ever passing through Parksville again, give me a shout - I can hook you up with a ton of back country camping spots up Island.

 

First axle dropped, now for the next one... Wasn't as bad as I thought it would be haha.





Little wax and she came out shiny!





And she's out!

 

Remember you've got brand new panhard polybushes on the white one that might be worth swapping over onto the new axle when it goes in! carry on...

 

Glad to hear it's going well so far, good luck with the rest of the transfer!

 

Was my plan to do that haha, don't worry!

And cheers Eurobahn

 

Second axle out, now to paint up the wheel wells and axle so she'll look all pretty when its back in.

 

Firstly its awesome to see 2 forum members working together, helping each other out! Amazing folks on here, some of which go out of their way to help each other out. Secondly awesome build, Disco looks good and I like what you did to the plastic sections on the front and rear bumper. The little details.... Your cabinets look good and the fabric looks both professional and clean. My only question right now is your choice of building material for the cabinets. Plywood? How well will plywood cabinets fare, loaded with camping gear, during a long bouncing voyage in the bush?

 

This will be the fourth cabinet I've made with this material for various vehicles, and I haven't had an issue yet with anything falling apart. Last setup survived a rollover l while fully loaded and a sub mounted on top! Plus plenty of trips up countless FSR's. Nice and cheap too haha.

 

Couldn't get back to working on the truck for about a week due to some crazy hours at work, but I am happy to announce that the suspension swap is complete! The original plan was to just swap the rear coils and shocks leaving the original axle in place, but the whole lower spring mount at the bottom disintegrated away when I was taking it off... So I had to swap the rear axle as well. The white truck had some nice new rotors and calipers so those will be kept for future swapping as well.




Rolled the little tires under the truck on blocks for fun. #hellaflush dude. Looks like a street ready disco now LOL




Rear bumper swapped over as well, old one was a little dented up, plus this had a CB antenna already mounted.