Recent content by Motiracer38

If you're rinsing it well quickly than it works well as a degreaser but when I think of using a parts washer you throw parts in and come back the next day or worse. Simple green will actually strip anodizing and remove material if soaked long enough. One of my shock ends has bleached spots from...

Any of the natural water based solvents will require a heater for effective use. Simple green and similar purple power may be too caustic and etch aluminum parts. Diesel and kerosene both smell terrible and will permeate into your clothes just working alongside it. I use tractor supply PSC-1000...

I've only built Toyotas and mounted the lowers to the outside of the frame and the uppers to the inside of the frame which is about a spread of 44in lower and 36in upper spread. Never had an issue with 1.2 heims wearing out or 1.75x.120 DOM links bending but also haven't raced or rolled yet. My...

I was cleaning up after the last project, figured I'd grab a couple pics. Two bays are 32ft deep for the ability to put two cars in and still do work. Currently taken over by bikes as it's moto season. Fab area has a 4x10 metal table with 1" top that got scrapped at work. Kids get the mobile...

I made my wife her own stall in the garage so I don't get in trouble.

What a fun challenge! Have you built a wireframe geometry model of your geometry? That way you can cycle through travel to eliminate bump steer and determine ackermann correctly. Solid models are great for verifying clearances but without solid geometry your just making guesses.

Are you saying the swinger mounted on the driver side or the swinging serving the driver side beam? I thought the two beam pivots should line up with the tie rod pivot which would mean the swinger mounted on the passenger frame rail should move outboard. These things make my head hurt though.

Stock lowers for the win. I never had to replace the stock lowers on my 94 even after thousands of dirt miles on 35s and a mild V8

Aaargh, of course it snows this week! It looks like almost a foot, then clear and sunny by Saturday. I'm busy Saturday but am free Sunday.

Sequoia on tons, who would do that? LOL Plenty of adventures to be had with a simple setup.

Oh the possibilities! Tempting to keep it an enclosed but the likely 7ft ceiling and 8ft wide walls would make it tough getting a truck inside and you out of. If you cut the back off it would likely need structural augmentations to keep the frame from bending since the walls are designed to take...

Great to see it out there, getting a motor swap driving is an awesome feeling.

I had a a camper that I loved towing with but with three little kids it was too small. A 5th wheel was nice for the room but unless you buy a semi truck then you can't put a truck in the back, expect a stick built trailer to stay together, and you look ridiculous crawling out of your window. I...

Yep, good ole 5 lug Tacoma problems. Drug it onto the trailer, parted a few parts off and scrapped the rest without unloading. That was 14 years ago and one month before picking up this truck to start over fresh.

Shoot. I have picture of that from like 2008 at an MDR race. It had such bad geometry from the stock location upper that it would get crazy negative camber at bump and at droop for what looked like 14in of travel. There's definitely better examples out there, GFO, Metcho, or PRD T-100.