11-1/2 ft of cab

[MommysLittleMonster]

Looking good. Your DIY paintjob appears to be holding up well.

[Greg|H]

Your truck is sweet! Love the wooden bed too. It makes a nice change from the euro stuff to see something like this. In for more!

[P78]

Oh sweet update

[hinrichs]

Sad update....

So had a great day on Friday hitting all the junkyards, finding a set of wheels to flip, some random little parts I wanted for the truck and garage art, and went to pick up my jeep from the shop getting some parts installed which didn't fix a problem.

Friend threw his bag onto the air controller by accident and it over filled the one front bag which blew. One was rubbing slightly and I think that's what blew. Also lost a lower shock bolt sadly, so yeah truck is stuck at my friends shop, so need to figure out how to get it home.

May end up fixing it and selling it.

[Earl]

Nooooooo=(

[P78]

bummer

[hinrichs]

I can make it a lot better, but in the end I don't know how much I want to really work on it. Hoping for a good trade offer. I mean it runs perfectly and everything else is perfect.

[Randomofodication]

Sucks to hear that, build was coming together quite nicely. Best of luck to you.

[hinrichs]

Well the truck is back home finally, just need to pull the front apart and see what bags it was running and what I can fit after I trim the spring cups and frame where it should have been done from the beginning.

[hinrichs]

got it in the garage to fix the bags finally and started working on it last night. Need to trim a decent amount which needs to be done anyway, and then ill order some new bags once I figure out what I can fit properly in the cups.

Its up for trade however, just to see whats out there after its fixed.

[hinrichs]

Well finally got to actually working on the truck after just looking at it for about a week or so, really had no motivation at all. Now that I want to sell or trade it...time to fix it.

Here is the bag that blew, guess it was rubbing worse than I thought originally. Ordered 2 re7 for the front to get it back on the road.

blown bag by minthinrich, on Flickr

Forgot I had my plasma cutter so this has been a lot easier for some of the cuts. Just cant figure out how to get the lower arms out to modify them.

plasma by minthinrich, on Flickr
cuts by minthinrich, on Flickr

[tohoopty]

what do you mean you cant figure out how to get the lower arms off.its only 2 bolts.what kind of lower cups were in the truck.

[hinrichs]

what do you mean you cant figure out how to get the lower arms off.its only 2 bolts.what kind of lower cups were in the truck.

bolts are out, and they wont drop out of the mounts....

Uh its a flat plate on the bottom which I may use some older bag mounts I have laying around cuz I don't feel they are right currently. Bags shipped out tho so hopefully Ill have at least this side fixed and back together this weekend.

[tohoopty]

id run some type of cup in the bottom.even with the arm de humped and you mount them back up the way they were,it looks like they will still rub.

[hinrichs]

Well the bags that were in there were "phoenix" brand...and no idea on real size and basically nothing was done right. The lower mount isn't bad, I just don't feel its the best. Ill get some pics tonight if it. Also that was just the first round of trimming I did, so its different now and way more open. The RE7 should fit a lot better and not have the same issues.

Im just trying to get it better for the next owner more or less.