Camp Kyle Shit Box Show Down Ranger

[Isaac.Helton]

In June of 2024 acquired a free ranger for the race.
This was It's state at that time.
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Slapped the back of the truck together with cheap shocks and tube.
Rat infested seats needed to go, Free Canned Ham seats was the go to.

 

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Needed spare mounts, battery cables upgraded

 

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Then came time for the front end, Super nasty driveway fab.
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Scotch brite party then primer and paint

 

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Crusty ass truck

 

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Body paint was next

 

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After that it was bumper time

 

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At this point everything was done and ready to beat the absolute shit out of it.

 

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Was a good weekend in the dirt some how nothing broke. Except the cab nearly fell off the frame...
Shit box found a place to stay in a buddies garage.
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[Isaac.Helton]

A year later it was time to begin the parts collection and the squirt gun progression.

 

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Leaf Springs forever.

 

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Scanning for a new tranny mount since the stock one will be in the way of the radius arms at bump. Exhaust needed to be deleted in the process.
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Shiny new muffler. And made a few spacers for the limit straps.

 

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Found some dirt cheap Deaver F31's on marketplace, Deaver Freshened them up for me

 

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Now we are up to the present day.
Time has come for the tranny mount. Scanned everything a while back, Pooped out a quick proof of concept using Blender. After that drew it up in real cad and cut out the middle portion to test fit. I went ahead and printed up the frame mounts since I wasn't super confident on how well I scaled my scan and or drew everything to scale. Thought I would need to do a couple revisions to get it to fit, Luckily no. Everything fit perfect. It was supposed to have dimples but I’m lazy.
Found some stock radius arm carnage along the way.
I will build the frame mounts for the tranny crossmember, get it mounted and report back.
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[Isaac.Helton]

Forgot to add that I acquired cheap replacements for the rear raptor shocks from @YotaTyler418 . These old guys are with @DialedShockPrep getting cleaned up.

 

[84Prerunner]

Sweet truck but it’s about a D- as far as following the prompt. It WAS a shit box then you ruined it.

 

[Isaac.Helton]

Sweet truck but it’s about a D- as far as following the prompt. It WAS a shit box then you ruined it.

Sand bagged a little too hard and the truck isn’t exactly legible for this years show down. So it’ll become another 2000 truck

 

[blue oval]

Are the only bent tubes the bumpers?