I drove out to Craig, CO, about 50 miles west of Steamboat, to meet with a guy about building my cage. Boy was I surprised when I walked into his shop!! :eek: There was a 73 FJ-40 up on jacks getting a front and rear coilover. The guy originally went in just to get a cage, and ends up getting a full cage tied to the frame through the floor, the back of the frame bobbed, and a setup for the coil over, his rear quarters cut way up. etc...

Turns out he works at the local Ford dealership there and is a TLCA member(wonder if my TLCA discount will work there for parts for my Navigator!!:p ) , but not on the LCML. I went by to meet him, nice fella. He was hoping to have it done for Cruise Moab, but realistically wants to make the pro event in Kremmling, CO in July.:beer:

He has a website he started for his project.

http://cruiser.alloffroad.com


The shop in Craig will probably do my cage. Looks like the guys do good work, and will do whatever I like. Time to start snatching photos off the web from some of you guys! :flipoff2: I hope they don't $ell me on a coilover!:smokin:

nice!!!

:smokin:

Interesting set up. One thing you don't want to do is support your rig on concrete blocks like he has shown in the photo. I saw a guy get killed that way working under his truck when the block disintegrated.

Originally posted by Pin Head
Interesting set up. One thing you don't want to do is support your rig on concrete blocks like he has shown in the photo. I saw a guy get killed that way working under his truck when the block disintegrated.

I noticed that too. The left rear tire (38.5 Super Swampers) is on the ground providing support, but his 4th tire hasn't come in yet so its not on! He has the rear on jack stands as is the front!

he spent all that cash on that Cruiser getting the 4 link setup and coilovers and he left the Cruiser axles in it.
Ouch.

Originally posted by wngrog
he spent all that cash on that Cruiser getting the 4 link setup and coilovers and he left the Cruiser axles in it.
Ouch.

Hehehe, yep. First thing out of my mouth was "Those are stock axles?!?!?!?" When I talked to him later, he said that change will come down the road later. He isn't sure what he wants to do, but is leaning toward D60s, and he's also gonna completely gut the drivetrain, eventually swapping out the 350/stock 4sp/t-case with some other set up incuding an Atlas!

He's got Detroits front and rear and all his local buddies laugh at him for spending the money when they all run Lincoln Lockers. Of course he laughs at them from running J**Ps.;) He's thinking ARBs front and rear!

Originally posted by MD11Fr8Dog


I noticed that too. The left rear tire (38.5 Super Swampers) is on the ground providing support, but his 4th tire hasn't come in yet so its not on! He has the rear on jack stands as is the front!

How about this one? Nothing holding up the rear except for the concrete blocks. It gives me the heeby-jeebies when I think about that guy's head getting squashed like a watermellon. :eek:

<img src="http://cruiser.alloffroad.com/images/nuthin_left.jpg">

Originally posted by Pin Head


How about this one? Nothing holding up the rear except for the concrete blocks. It gives me the heeby-jeebies when I think about that guy's head getting squashed like a watermellon. :eek:



Yikes, I missed that one!! Fortunately for me, when I take my car there for the cage building, it'll be on all 4 tires the whole time!!

Charlie, looks like I'm gonna be getting into SoCal on Sunday evening and departing Tues evening. Monday afternoon a good time for me to come and look at your SM420 install?? Let me know what works for you!! Anytime is good for me!

What coil overs is he using?

I am swapping my coil set up to a coil over.

Stopped at my buddies house last night....this is his new CORR series race truck.

http://www.ih8mud.com/pirate/P4040018.jpg

Originally posted by coiledbj42
What coil overs is he using?

I am swapping my coil set up to a coil over.

I'm not sure. I'm leaving on a trip in the morning and won't be home for a couple weeks. I can try to ask him when I get back. It might be in his website, or his email might be and you can ask him there!!

HTH,

If you look closer, those are not regular CMU blocks. The have been filled solid with concrete. That being said they would be just as stong as a concrete block used to support a mobile home.

If they were hollow, that would be a different story. The blocks are not made from regular 3kpsi concrete.

I think he would be just fine the way they are.

damn brian, tell him his rig's lookin sweeeet. :D :drool:

I was reading on the Toy truck board a while back and saw a photo of DRM's rig on concrete blocks. I guy posted and told him that was a no no, he also said he had a family member get killed when the blocks crumbled. DRM posted back and said he was an expert concrete block stacker, like everything else, and that the guy's family member was an idiot and that he did not know how to stack the blocks corectly. :rolleyes: