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My parents have never been suprised by what I do to jeep. Maybe they would be by what I do with jeep. But then unlike most others in this post besides myself and the originator of this thread, my parents do not pay for my crap. Not like they bought me a tj sport then I trashed it and they bought me a new diesel 4x4 or anything.
I completely agree, but the cool thing about the FJC is there are already pre drilled threaded holes in the frame for the stock toyota sliders that weren't an option I wanted to pay for. If the holes weren't already there I would just weld them on but since they are, might as well use the ability to be able to take them off whenever I want to.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeepPhisherman
****, I wish my parents payed for my crap, or anything for that matter. I asked them to buy my senior ring for me as a graduation present, and they're still *****ing about it
Also, as stated before I pay for the truck and the mods that I want to do, but my parents wanted to do something EXTREMELY nice for me and luckily my Dad share's my passion for Toyota's and FJ's so he convinced my mother i needed the baddest of the bad for a bumper and winch. It is the first thing they have ever given me for the FJ but my girlfriend decided to get me something for the FJ TOO! She got me a new shift knob from http://www.flameball.com
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Originally Posted by FJAggie07
And, Im not clicking that at workQuote:
Originally Posted by FJAggie07
It lights up at night. I am gonna get one for my bronco its gonna be sweet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snatch Adams
dont weld to the frame on a new vehicle hell or any vehicle unless completely neccessary, it sucks major ass when you want to change something and have to grind it off.
I got my new winch and bumper on this weekend, complete pain in the ass, It bolted on to studs that were sticking out of the frame for the original bumper and then had frame supports that were completely ******-rigged and had to be drilled out and use about 5 washers as shims, but after all that and about 4 hours I got the bumper on, the winch in and wired and my PIAA lights in and wired and I do have to say it looks pretty fawking badass. Here are the pics...
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/CIMG6558.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/CIMG6556.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/CIMG6559.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/CIMG6561.jpg
Thats a great looking bumper, probably one of the best looking ones out there..
you gotta quit takin pictures of it in the PG, that thing needs to see some trails :flipoff2:
btw, nice bumper and kudos on the install.
I know, I know, but when I am in Dallas working over breaks it is where it gets parked.Quote:
Originally Posted by DRAGOONRANCH
It will see the trails this weekend, going out to BMRA with Toyota Trail Riders (TLCA chapter up here in dallas) for the Lone Star Jamboree. Its Gonna be badass! whole weekend of camping and wheeling, get their friday morning and leave sunday afternoon. Can't ask for a better weekend to test out the new bumper and winch.
Looks badass. I was planning on making it out to LSJ with the TTORA guys, but the gf won a trip to Nashville all inclusive, so have fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by FJAggie07
Alright little update for this thread.
I finished my sliders this weekend, you know the ones I started back in september...
I welded them up to be completely bolt on in the bolt holes designed and made for the factory sliders. Now I just have to paint them and they will be done.
They started out like this
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/CIMG0149.jpg
Ended up like this...
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...s/CIMG6895.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...s/CIMG6904.jpg
And this...
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...s/CIMG6902.jpg
And this...
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...s/CIMG6901.jpg
100% homemade and fabbed, one of a kind... They took a long time but here they are.
those look really good. you might consider gusseting the plates though so they dont flex up into the body.
These gonna get welded on or bolted. Yes, I do see the bolt in the bottom of it, just no holes in the top.
Yeah there are holes in the top too, when I was taking the pictures I only had like two bolts in because I was just trying to get them on to see where I needed to place the slider on the other side to tack it up, so i could pull it back off and finish it.
Now each slider is bolted to my frame with 8 bolts each, 2 on each arm, and they are grade 10.9 bolts (maybe a little overkill but oh well)
And as far as gusseting the arms, I wanted to do it, but the way I ended up making the plates with the top bolt hole right above the arm, it is going to be a bit of a ***** to gusset. I could do two per arm, one on each side of the bolt hole, but then I would never get them bolted up. I am still thinking about it. Right now I just put two beads on every weld and hopefully they are strong enough :gigem:
I ran into the same problem with an after-thought about gussets. I ended up just putting 2 gussets on each mounting plate in a v-pattern on the top side, which is really the only side you need to worry about. Left enough room to get in there with a socket to bolt them up, and it worked out fine.
And I only bolted my on with 4 g8's per side, but my mounting plates were u-shaped
10.9's are metric equall to grade 8 SAE
BTW they look good, I would jack up on them to make sure that they can't deflect enough to touch the body Nothing worse that the sliders pinning your doors shut
on your cruiser its better overkill than body damage, atleast if it was mine that would be what i would wantQuote:
Originally Posted by FJAggie07
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Originally Posted by AggieTJ2007
look good :gigem:
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Originally Posted by AggieTJ2007
On my old truck, you could jack the truck up by the sliders, but the first time I really dropped the truck on them they got up into the body pretty good. Granted this was the full weight of the truck from about 3 feet up, but the jack method may not be enough of a test.
I thought about that but it would at least give him some Idea of how stiff they are, I don't think the FJ is going to be falling 3 feet onto an obstacle though, at least I hope not
Yeah I will be jacking them up by the sliders, but I need to get them fully bolted up first and torqued right. I will do all that after I paint them, and that may not be for two weeks. After that I will see if they need to be gusseted.
I would think that you could get away with one gusset on one side of the supports. This way you would still have access to the bolt head.
how thick is that square tube? I don't think you need any gussets with how you've built them.
Actually I dunno, It was part of a stockpile of tubing my grandfather had in his barn, but you can kind of eyeball it from this pic...Quote:
Originally Posted by RCook527
Here are the arms before I welded the sliders to them:
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...s/CIMG6893.jpg
Got the sliders painted and mounted just in time for K-Rocks. Here they are finished.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...s/CIMG6953.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...s/CIMG6963.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...s/CIMG6958.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...1/CIMG6965.jpg
your rockers will thank you this weekend
yeah cook, you were right, that was some other doosh at 47 in that black FJ. :flipoff3:
There was another black FJ at 47 yesterday? I couldn't make it home in time, what happened?
yeah, he and TJ shovel guy hit some hardcore trails
oh **** i thought it was you to, i was wondering why/when you got mud terrains
Wtf? When has someone CS started posing as me, I know I am cool and all but what the fawk?
Was he a real doosh trying to do more than he actually could? I know there is a salesman up at atkinson toyota who has a lift and tires and all-pro bumper, it was probably him, even though i have never seen his rig.
This reminds me who has the windshield banners? I am going to go ahead and put one on before K-rocks just in case an FJ decides to show up and somebody tries to confuse me with them.
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Originally Posted by FJAggie07
Robbie has them, we are getting more printed. I need 1 as well.
The manager at Atkinson has the black FJ. He's a pretty cool guy, his name is Chris as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by FJAggie07
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Originally Posted by JeepPhisherman
oxymoron much? :flipoff2:
Yeah I think I met him when I went to go look for a tundra for the woman.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeepPhisherman