Quad Shocks?

[richiemoe]

Off Road Design. Best Squarebody 4x4 site. All kinds of parts. Make some of the best stuff.

Ugh oh.... that is a really cool site! Lol

 

[Arkansas_V8]

Ugh oh.... that is a really cool site! Lol

http://diy4x.com/


Also another great site for custom parts.

 

[richiemoe]

http://diy4x.com/


Also another great site for custom parts.

I want to keep the truck clean cut looking, but also take it to the sand dunes. I like these custom sites, they'll definitely help with this! First, gotta get it driveable again.... Which means new doors and corner panels...
$370 per door...
https://www.brotherstrucks.com/77-87-COMPLETE-DOOR-SHELL-FRONT-PREMIUM/productinfo/DOOR87P/RIGHT/

 

[Arkansas_V8]

I want to keep the truck clean cut looking, but also take it to the sand dunes. I like these custom sites, they'll definitely help with this! First, gotta get it driveable again.... Which means new doors and corner panels...
$370 per door...
https://www.brotherstrucks.com/77-87-COMPLETE-DOOR-SHELL-FRONT-PREMIUM/productinfo/DOOR87P/RIGHT/

Keep an eye out on a good used set.

 

[SquareRoot]

Every Marine is a rifleman. I can't understand why every truck enthusiast isn't a fabricator? What the hell is wrong with you people?! It's just a tab for God's sake, make the damn thing! You're seriously going to scour the internet for a $5 part?

 

[Arkansas_V8]

Every Marine is a rifleman. I can't understand why every truck enthusiast isn't a fabricator? What the hell is wrong with you people?! It's just a tab for God's sake, make the damn thing! You're seriously going to scour the internet for a $5 part?

I quake at your awesomeness. If you make those exact tabs, we would be more than willing to pay you double, say $10.

I absolutely apologize for not living up to your standard as an enthusiast. God forgive me.

 

[Arkansas_V8]

Every Marine is a rifleman. I can't understand why every truck enthusiast isn't a fabricator? What the hell is wrong with you people?! It's just a tab for God's sake, make the damn thing! You're seriously going to scour the internet for a $5 part?

I expect to see you whine like this in every damn thread.

Why every single person is not a damn fabricator.

Those are not just tabs.

What I bought for the rear of my Suburban, and welded on(all by myself). Those were just some tabs. Cost me $2.50 each from ORD.

I am just lazy, that's why I dont fabricate my own ****.

I just let my water jet, and all my other cool **** collect dust. Just figured I would make clear how lazy I am.


Whine on.

 

[SquareRoot]

Lol. I'll break out the cheese. You have a waterjet? Now I'm really jelous. If I had one of those I'd be making Delorians in my garage.

 

[richiemoe]

Every Marine is a rifleman. I can't understand why every truck enthusiast isn't a fabricator? What the hell is wrong with you people?! It's just a tab for God's sake, make the damn thing! You're seriously going to scour the internet for a $5 part?

I'd love to learn how to fab parts! But i don't know if i have all of the tools to do it... I recently bought my first welder (lincoln tombstone arc welder) and a friend is suppose to give me his late brothers 110 mig welder, to restore my wife's wrangler. I have a small drill press, and a lot of wood working tools. Tools for pretty much everything to work on a vehicle. But i've never learned to fab stuff. Maybe i'm wrong, but the time to measure an old part, then try to reproduce it to spec, seems VERY time consuming... I design in CAD everyday, so while i can easily draw something up, i'd have a hard time making it... Plus with a half finished house that we gutted last October, a now pregnant wife (2nd child on the way), and my business is picking up, it really does seem easier to just buy a $5 or $10 part...

Maybe it would be easy to fabricate this mount! But the process in my head is over complicating it to try making it as perfect as possible, which seems overwhelming and time consuming....

 

[SquareRoot]

Maybe I sounded a little too serious. I was being cynical. However, I've been dabbing parts for 30 years for two reasons. 1. I'm cheap and always think I can make it for far less than what it's worth. 2. I enjoy the time alone, engineering things and feeling the satisfaction of seeing it come to fruition.

I'm wrong 90% of the time. It's almost always cheaper to buy it and it always takes 2-3 times longer than I planned.

But.... I still do it... almost every night. For some it's the doctor, for some it's the pills, I do it cuz it gives me a thrill.

 

[richiemoe]

Maybe I sounded a little too serious. I was being cynical. However, I've been dabbing parts for 30 years for two reasons. 1. I'm cheap and always think I can make it for far less than what it's worth. 2. I enjoy the time alone, engineering things and feeling the satisfaction of seeing it come to fruition.

I'm wrong 90% of the time. It's almost always cheaper to buy it and it always takes 2-3 times longer than I planned.

But.... I still do it... almost every night. For some it's the doctor, for some it's the pills, I do it cuz it gives me a thrill.

I didn't take what you said too seriously! I really do want to learn to do this stuff!! I HATE working with wood! My walls aren't squared, so even if my trim cuts are perfect, it doesn't fit together. Metal, you can do anything you want with metal. In the designs that i did for a large automotive supplier, the parts had to be designed and the dies made, had to be within 100th of a mil for tolerances. I'm extremely cheap, which is why i learn to do everything myself. To which, i enjoy learning to do these things. But with so many projects now, i feel like i get nothing done...

When we took my wife's jeep to the sand dunes, the shop where we bought a flag, the guy fabricated two custom made mounts for the jeep bumper, in maybe 5 minutes. It was impressive!!! He took some scrap metal, welded it, then drilled two holes; one for bumper mount and one for the flag. I'd love to learn how to do that!!!

With the million projects that i have, i enjoy working on this old truck and my wife's jeep, since they don't need to be driven the next day, it is relaxing. Plus, with a kid on the way and raising my 17month old daughter to be a total badass, i'm excited to restore these vehicles as they are growing up. As well as having me time in the garage when everyone else is asleep.

 

[Arkansas_V8]

Lol. I'll break out the cheese. You have a waterjet? Now I'm really jelous. If I had one of those I'd be making Delorians in my garage.

I like Gouda. Lol

I wish I had a darn water jet.

I got all four tabs shipped for cheaper from ORD than I could get the 3/16 plate for.

I will make my own EGR block, and stuff like that. But for some things it's just cheaper to buy pre made.

 

[Arkansas_V8]

Maybe I sounded a little too serious. I was being cynical. However, I've been dabbing parts for 30 years for two reasons. 1. I'm cheap and always think I can make it for far less than what it's worth. 2. I enjoy the time alone, engineering things and feeling the satisfaction of seeing it come to fruition.

I'm wrong 90% of the time. It's almost always cheaper to buy it and it always takes 2-3 times longer than I planned.

But.... I still do it... almost every night. For some it's the doctor, for some it's the pills, I do it cuz it gives me a thrill.

I know exactly what you mean. I am on these pills till surgery, but now that I am a tad mobile, nothing makes me happier than to just pop my hood and stare.

 

[Arkansas_V8]

I didn't take what you said too seriously! I really do want to learn to do this stuff!! I HATE working with wood! My walls aren't squared, so even if my trim cuts are perfect, it doesn't fit together. Metal, you can do anything you want with metal. In the designs that i did for a large automotive supplier, the parts had to be designed and the dies made, had to be within 100th of a mil for tolerances. I'm extremely cheap, which is why i learn to do everything myself. To which, i enjoy learning to do these things. But with so many projects now, i feel like i get nothing done...

When we took my wife's jeep to the sand dunes, the shop where we bought a flag, the guy fabricated two custom made mounts for the jeep bumper, in maybe 5 minutes. It was impressive!!! He took some scrap metal, welded it, then drilled two holes; one for bumper mount and one for the flag. I'd love to learn how to do that!!!

With the million projects that i have, i enjoy working on this old truck and my wife's jeep, since they don't need to be driven the next day, it is relaxing. Plus, with a kid on the way and raising my 17month old daughter to be a total badass, i'm excited to restore these vehicles as they are growing up. As well as having me time in the garage when everyone else is asleep.

You seem to have the drive, you will learn all you want if you stay driven.

Enjoy your kids now. Mine are 11, 10, 9, 3.

Sometimes I wonder why. Lol

They loved they're first day of school Tuesday. Find that odd. Lol

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[Joe T]

I rarely fabricate anything. Rather support a shop that does that type of specialty stuff, plus save my time.