Recent content by Bpbuilt

Yes order them directly, lead time is like 2-4weeks which isn’t too bad. Their customer service isn’t the greatest, I had ordered threaded body’s for my rear shocks and they came smooth. After a couple emails with no response I gave up. Overall I can’t complain about them though, they work...

Well I guess I’ll give my side of the story for the desert hot springs to big bear trip with tree trunk, Turboyota, bromainia, and whitetrashkyle, mines a little shorter! Made it to the trail head in the am, and stopped to take a leak. Everyone was ready to take off and the explorer decided it...

Man that didn’t take you long to get into it!

Well I have been plugging away on things, got a trans temp gauge installed along with a derale cooler and fan. Made a huge difference keeping the temps down on the last time out with it. The rear shocks worked a lot better then the blown out ranchos but probably going to have to change to some...

Figured I throw in a picture of the shop I work in, been here for 13 years doing sheet metal fabrication for a hvac company. Me and my helper go through about 100k pounds of sheet metal a year out of this small shop. All the standard shears and brakes, almost everything is from the early 1960’s...

I think you win for 10lbs of shit in 5lbs bag hahaha I feel your pain though my old garage was twice the size of my current one but a better neighborhood and bigger house was needed!

Yes they are 33s. I believe it’s stock gearing, I haven’t looked to verify. I want to go to 35s but going to require a bunch of cutting to clear them, but as it is now I’m happy with it enough power to cruise pretty good.

Those ports bands with the base kick ass for small projects! 90% of the time my bench looks the same hahaha

This was after I cleaned it up, I couldn’t even see the bench 20minutes before this 😂

Thought it would be cool if we had a thread for garage tours, show what you work out of and some of the tools you can’t live without. I feel like a lot of people getting into fabrication think they need the best tools and huge shop to achieve their goals. I’m working out of a two car garage and...

Been a while since this has been updated but have had the explorer out once more before I tore into the rear suspension. Shortly after this trip I pulled it in the garage and got started on the rear. Going along with the trend of being a cheap ass I acquired some leaf springs from tree trunk...

That looks much better than the previous set up. Make sure you hood still closes too. I had to get a little wester with mine to clear everything

If I could give you some advice the tube going across needs to be as close to inline with the uprights off the shocks as you can get it. The way it’s laid out right now your not going to gain much strength, also you need to be sure to leave some room around engine and everything attached to it...

Just a heads up those bump stops like to explode, it was to the point where I would keep a spare in my truck. The red urethane ones seemed to last a bit longer than the black though. Looks awesome though, rad to see another second gen 👍🏼

2x4 light bar mount behind the grill on a coworkers truck 😂