Big Booty Judy

[B8tes]

Well I’ll give this a shot. Hey guys, my names logan, and this is my build Big Booty Judy. I have owned the truck for 7 years now. Bought her as a bone stock 1985 CUCV, a military K30 pick up. I have put the truck through several major over hauls in the last 7 years. I’m just a garage fabricator, constantly working on improving my skills. I grew up in the desert world, working in my dads class 5 unlimited, but wanted to hop into the rock crawling world. I have tried to build the truck as a do it all rig. Blast around the desert, crawl on the rocks in Moab and johnson valley, or multi day adventures across Baja.

 

[dwphoto]

rad build! love the OG military trucks

 

[deangraen]

Good ol big booty Judy! Absolutely love this truck

 

[UR_Mawm69]

LOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVEEEEEEE THIS THING!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[B8tes]

Well time to ad an update. after sending it a little to hard bud, at KOH 2024 I broke a front main leaf, destroyed my ram assist ram and turned a 1/4 wall drag link into a bendy straw. Well I think that was Judy’s was of throwing a temper tantrum. She wants links, so in the summer of 2024, judy is getting a 4 linked front end. I have also been looking into a dual ended ram hydro assist. Has anyone done this on here? I have seen a few 4500 cars with it, and a guy building a bitchin 2nd gen Cummins crawler has talked to me a little bit.

 

[Motiracer38]

Good choice, everything should be linked. I would probably just 3-link it with a panhard bar as the 4-link with panhard bar binding tears up joints. The double ended assist seems to work well with the right sized components, seems like there was a good thread on Irate about it along with trouble shooting some pitfalls.

 

[B8tes]

Good choice, everything should be linked. I would probably just 3-link it with a panhard bar as the 4-link with panhard bar binding tears up joints. The double ended assist seems to work well with the right sized components, seems like there was a good thread on Irate about it along with trouble shooting some pitfalls.

I think I’m going to do the off-road design 4 link with panhard bar. Talked with the Watsons at KOH, Steven is getting 16”s of travel out of his truck with a bit of crossmember clearance modifications. While still keeping the truck low.

What is Irate?

 

[Motiracer38]

ORD is legit, should work out well.

Irate is an active forum dedicated to going slow with a huge knowledge base of 4wd. Some links for a DE assist

Double ended ram hydro assist

I searched here and at the old place and only found a few threads, one being JR4X KOH steering here, and one from Willyswanter back in 2003 on p4x4. I think this would be a good potential option for my low slung Toyota on leafs as I have zero room for a ram pretty much anywhere. I don't have...

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DE ram with steering box AKA 4500 class steering migration

Going to try to resurrect some tech as it’s relevance has come up again. Lots has changed since I started doing this 7 years ago. I’ve stopped trying to help people build boxes through text and email. My brother and I can build boxes all day and not have problems. Most everyone I’ve tried to...

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