Recent content by 7bdiver

I might start looking at these guys. They have quite the selection, and it looks like they're putting more than the bare minimum into their product. But again! These are budget import winches! So yeah, double size them for sure. They do have a 20k lb winch or two! So yay...

Yep. I mean look at it. Its still a chineese made winch with rock bottom features. 2k is just stupid money for what it is. I'm patient. Someone will do the exact same thing for 900 bucks again and eat their lunch. Really stupid move Sherpa.

I was going to buy one of those 25k stallion winches, but they keep raising their prices. IMO, they've priced themselves out of their competitive category. I'd rather look for a worm drive winch with a much longer cable capacity now.

Ah, found it. They're DP winches. Stupid expensive hydraulic winches. Dang, was hoping it was an electric one.

Anyone have any idea what winch is on the JLTV? Didnt come up with anything in a google search. Maybe someone might recognize it. Its supposedly 18k lbs

Your trucks are absolutely incredible! Very cool man! Very motivating. If you have any CAD skills, would you pretty please make and share files of a build? Like for a deuce maybe? 🥺 You could put the file package for sale too. I've always figured that if I ever started buying things from the...

The fork probably will need to be a wee bit thicker for one or two of them. I hadn't thought of welding on a shim to make it thicker. Will likely do that.

Oooh! I like that setup. Looks a lot like the kind of stuff I do to my rigs. I never figured I could afford doing a plow setup on my truck, but that def looks doable.

I bought a big chisel at harbor freight and milled the center out. Havent tested it yet though. Its just been too dang cold and shitty out to bother. None of my bushings are at risk yet anyway. We'll see how it goes. I made the same thing out of a big long sds max chisels too, in case I want to...

Safer to be short, so the ram doesn't crank the piss out of the joints against the stops.

Def interested in hearing how the single cylinder does. Mounting it will be so much easier, and unlike the full hydraulic steering type valve, your lock-to-lock turns of the wheel will stay the same. I think thats really the only complaint anyone had with the single ram. Is 8" going to be long...

I bought the weld on spline adapters on ebay. They're the same ones they sell on the distributor sites. They have their stuff on ebay too. One was 13/16-36 spline, the other 3/4-48 (late model). The new models are 3/4 on both ends. Otherwise, Im pretty sure they're the same. It doesn't look...

Update to the power steering I did. I had been experiencing some steering shake when turning the wheels while stopped or crawling slow. Its quite a diagnostics debacle that a lot of racers that use these sweet steering servos struggle with. After making sure all my steering gear had no slop...

I've read/watched quite a few people's techniques on getting the rod joints out. So far, I havent seen anyone use a traditional style fork separator. Do they just get bent all to hell and not work? If turning the nut against some janky stacks of plates works, I don't see why not. Kind of...

It's been over a year now, so I just tallied up how much I've put into my deuce. Its an 1985 and was in pretty good shape. I bought it for 8k and then paid a buddy that used to work on trucks in the military to put the new heads on. Just needed gaskets, but new heads were quicker than getting...