Recent content by DesertGoat

Been in a bit of a holding pattern waiting for parts to show up. So I pivoted from the back half over to figuring out a bumper + skid. I wanted to reuse the original 1974 bumper that the truck originally had. So when I chopped the front frame off years ago I had saved myself a little 6" section...

ho' fo' sho. I left everything tacked just in case I got the height wrong when cycling happens. My trailing arms are being fabricated by a 3rd party so I'm waiting on those to show up to get everything finalized with the method you described. for this height I did this: - with the factory...

I wanted a wagon so bad. But the most affordable one I could find was +$10k than this sedan, had +30k miles, had an accident & a check engine light. They're bananas expensive but also so damn cool. really wish I was able to make it happen but oh well. This sedan is badass too. It had some...

Started on the back half of the truck. Chopped the frame off. my original plan was to reuse the OEM frame since it was like ~1/4" thick and a 8" tall c section & perfectly flat. But after rigging it up and floating it to where I would need it to get ~11 inches of uptravel, I decided that I...

just cause the plans are available doesn't make them good. But you also don't have to trust anyone else's opinions (mine included). So I'm just saying that the internal reinforcing structures are oriented 90 degrees from the direction where I'd want them to resist the bending loads. They...

PPA-CF is my intention. Has a temp resistance higher than what the reservoir bodies "should" get to. Seems worth trying. in other news - I'm beginning to start on the back half. Started by welding up all the holes in the cab wall from removing the OE full tank. Then I added clevises to the rear...

I just noticed... but how come the center ribs in your breams are oriented parallel to the ground instead of vertically? Seems like you've got them going the weak way for the direction I'd expect most of the load. The factory old school I-beams are shaped like an I for a reason

^mikey nailed it. The 350 single rates are just dinged up loaners from the homies at Accutune to figure out corner weight so we can order the right stuff later. I just wanted the mental win of setting it on its own weight - I know these aren't final. Aside - Accutune has been helpful yet again...

I basically just pieced together OnX trails since we threw this trip together in a bit of a rush. Parker : Signal (we had intended to go via dirt all the way to wickenburg but all the stuff we ended up in trying to go east out of the Havasu area was all very slow going up/down a bunch of canyons...

that console is excellent. nicely done

correct - it's easier to cover ground in Baja compared to Arizona due to the openness & terrain in mexico. For example - driving down that creek bed full of rocks for ~10 miles took us hours. but 10 miles in baja can be over in ~1/2 hour ish most of the time. the other huge difference is that...

Between xmas & new years a couple of buddies decided to try this route... we started in palm desert and went through Joshua tree then east all the way to flagstaff. Stops in Parker, Crown King, Sedona, and finally flagstaff. Spent new years eve in Flag. Saw some cool stuff, rock crawled a little...

Long time, no post. End of the year chaos. Painting & reassembly still in progress. Mocked up the ram assist cylinder for the first time & found out the tabs on my drag link were incorrectly located. The good news is that this whole steering system was developed by Andrew Cho and he operates...

this might be my new favorite expression

badass. that steering wheel is a solid come-up! assuming it's original ford that thing is worth big $