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Buddy’s truck is a dang slinky
Good trip to Moab this year. The classic had almost zero issues and performed flawlessly on the trails. Now to make this thing a little less ugly this year.
None of us could figure it out. There is a very nice winch point at the top. For better or worse we finished the trifecta and did not return this way to have to try and go up the waterfall
Not a whole lot to report other than the truck will overheat when I run the AC but will drive around town and idle with it off no matter how hot ambient temp is...Have a new fan and clutch as well as a new condenser fan motor to swap in one of these days. Hoping the new fan and clutch will help with the creeping temps I get when on prolonged highway speed climbs (only I'm not going the speed limit so the clutch is going to be necessary at 20-40mph lol).
Picked up a set of diode dynamic fog lights during their 4th of july sale. About to go on paternity leave in the next few weeks so really hoping to get to some of these little projects that have been on the backburner. Front bumper will get some bar work done, cut the side supports off (they block the headlights some and make room for the fog lights) move those supports below so the wings of the bumper will actually be better supported.
Have two rear door shells to cut properly and paint as well as an aluminum rear upper hatch frame to rebuild with some glass from a rotted example and swap over. And still have the chonky adrenaline 4x4 front long arm kit I'd like to weld in (should be super simple but the LWB makes it a little harder to do as the frame side bracket to weld in lands right on the plated/elongated portion of the LWB frame).
They are really really nice. My buddy has the rears of the adrenaline offering in the slinky classic above and said even the rear kit changed everything on his, highway is much more mannered and wheeling obviously getting a significantly smoother or linear swing on the axle when articulating. So I'm extremely excited to get the fronts in, correct some castor and should really tighten up the feeling of the front end big time.
may be getting a 5spd for this truck, which would pair nicely with another project I'm working on for the rv8s. Also fairly certain the current slush box is on it's way out, starting to act up just a little bit every so often.
