So the wife gave me a 3 month time limit to finish my build.. my truck is bagged, all my interior other than seats wrapped and finishing up custom console are done..

Plans for the finish..
Sfbd
Z'd frame
Tubular A-arms
Raising bed floor
Finish body work, add different tail lights, and paint
Raised tranny x member
Re run exhaust to raise it
And im sure a few other lil things lol..

Im sure ill be on here asking for some help from some of you guys that have been building your trucks. Ill appreciate any help I can get and knowledge I can get to get it finished up right!!

 

Heres a pic of the truck

 

Sounds like a tight timeline. Good luck with the build and post lots of photos

 

Im hoping I can get it finished.. I go hard when im workin on it tho so we'll see what happens haha.. most the hard stuff is done. B/D and Z are what seem to be the only hard tasks left as far as what I have left on the build, but ya never kno what will hold ya up lol

 

Got a good bit done.. just started on the truck tear down today. Ready and waiting on parts, got late so I couldnt cut the old bag mounts off, but its ready for the tubular arms, ill cut off the old bag mounts tomorrow and clean everything up for the Z, went and bout some 1.5" tube and some other things. Im gonna add a couple simple pieces of tube on the back to help with a lil more bag mount support. Front end is all off as well now. And plans changed a lil. No more BD right now.. gonna do everything but the BD,, down the road maybe over winter ill be doing a full tube chassis..but thats where I am so far.
What are you guys that are Z'd using as far as thickness for gussetting the Z? Is 1/4" necessary or is 3/16 plenty?

my bad,, stupid pics loaded sideways haha

 

Is that a drop spindle hanging there? Truck looks good. What color are you going to paint it? Any pics of the interior before it got taken out for work?

 

Heres an interior shot.. dirty as hell lol seats need wrapped, and no carpet. And the center console im not done building yet.. test fit lol. . Yea buddy, belltech drop spindles, Ummm... haha im up in the air on paint.. im having a tough time deciding what color I want haha.. theres a jeep wrangler green paint that I really like. It comes stock on the wranglers.. if I dont do that color ill be going with some kind of matte/satin color, just not sure cause theres no changing it after its painted unless u wanna go through all that crap to do it again haha

 

Geez I dont jno why the pics keep loading side ways.. got a lil bit of work left for interior but it should look good

 

Uphill battle but get it knocked out and prove her wrong!

 

2005 Rav4 blue! Always wanted to see that on a Mini. And it's a stock Toyota color to boot.

 

Why the timeline?

 

Possible. I went down to the frame and had it back on the road, bagged, bodied, and Z'd in 4 months....

 

You can do it if you just make sure you do something on it every other day. Even if its only an hour, it all adds up.

As for color, I always really liked the green on the first gen scion xB's. Would look really good on a pickup

 

How consecutively and how many hours a day? I'm trying to bag it and sfbd in a month. I start this weekend and my deadline is the morning of July 8th. I am on vacation from work the 20th to the 7th. Oh, and I only work 4 days a week... I have seen bagged trucks in less than four months working less than 12 hours on weekends only... There is a shop locally that says they can have it done in a week. You figure two guys working on it, 9 hour days for 7 days is 126, give or take a few. I figured I would be working on it for about 178 hours give or take...

 

We spent 16 hrs every wknd. Non stop Saturday and subday

 

Well I work on it every day. Haha.. I have the front ready to be Z'd. Couple questions,, I noticed in the cando antihack build they cut the Z pretty close to the bag mount area.. is there an area thats best to cut the Z?

Time frame is September-ish

 

There's a bracket welded to the frame that the brake line clips too. On top of the frame in that area is a hole drilled in the frame. 1/4" in front of that hole. Slice there. They did some fancy angling on the anti hack build too. Not necessary.

 

Cause we are moving to a town about an hour away around September. Itll be done by then no sweat.. im holding off on the BD for now.. gonna build a frame after we move or have someone build one for me..

 

Thanks.. yea and do I need to use 1/4" plate to gusset it or woukd 3/16 be good

 

3/16 would be good. I only used 1/4" cuz it's what I had.