Thread: Crappy fab work

oh gotcha, so what kinda drugs were those dudes on? did they look embarassed about it

They were super cool guys, i dont think they built the stuff on it.

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what button do you push for the rope ladder to come down? WAFJ

Seriously...lol

Those coil springs must be like 4 ft. tall.

O shit nevermind, the coil buckets up front are just extended 1 1/2 feet..lol

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Quote[/b] (JonMc @ Dec. 22 2006,3:20)]They were super cool guys, i dont think they built the stuff on it.

o gotcha

heres another 70's chevy i seen in hemet when i was working. long travel with a coil spring and the coldest welds ive ever seen.

Courtesy of the SEMA show..

Everything on this truck was bolt-on. I guess the owner maybe had plans to make it go back to stock??? I also wonder if it was vinyl wrapped over the stock paint.. Who knows, maybe he just rented to the truck, bolted it all on, took it to the show, then unbolted it all and returned it to the dealer.. haha.

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what button do you push for the rope ladder to come down? *WAFJ

Seriously...lol

Those coil springs must be like 4 ft. tall.

Or fill it up....

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Quote[/b] (oorracing @ Dec. 22 2006,4:33)][img]http://i55.photobucket.com/albums....mg]

Courtesy of the SEMA show..

Everything on this truck was bolt-on. I guess the owner maybe had plans to make it go back to stock??? I also wonder if it was vinyl *wrapped over the stock paint.. Who knows, maybe he just rented to the truck, bolted it all on, took it to the show, then unbolted it all and returned it to the dealer.. haha.

What a waste of shocks and coilovers. Why why why?

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Quote[/b] (garagebuilder @ Dec. 22 2006,12:34)]the amazing part is that that hoopty playdoh tube was all one tube, skillz nigga.

HAHAHHA I almost want to say this is good fab work that is if made all those bends on purpose

Reply to the crazy yellow excursion from sema that thing is actually ....extremlly well done for a disco truck if you saw the steering in person ... youd shit its crazy... not my cup of tea but definattly not a crappy fab work...pic. just my 2 cents






I attached a pic of my suspension incase any body cares

the steering on that big truck isnt anything special, its the only way you can do it on a front 4-linked vehicle if you dont want bumpsteer, and you dont use hydraulics (which completely suck for steering by the way). its been done that way for years.

rednecknate, your fab work looks really clean, but im not quite getting the design on the trailing arms... why do they dip down so deep right there? it creates a pretty decent weak point in the arm. im sure its much much stronger than it needs to be anyways so im not saying by any means that its going to fail, but just curious

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Quote[/b] (deluxfab @ Dec. 22 2006,3:28)]heres another 70's chevy i seen in hemet when i was working. long travel with a coil spring and the coldest welds ive ever seen.

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I'M diggin' the brakeline.

looks like that line is about to snap

Hey Esb Mike thanks on the compliment...this is on my shop truck The design is way over built ther 1/4 plate" the dip was for style and to get the centerline low..youd have to see the rest of the arm..a good friend of mine acctually gets alot of the credit..the whole suspension...was done on solid works its acctually got an adjuster on the top of the link for pinion angle change.. it only cycles about 16''s or so with less than 3/8'' thrust at bump and 1/2" at droop with a track bar...and hardly any squat... so its fine 4 my street truck. keeps the stock tank..and rides and handles like a dream with no sway bar....was kinda a risk but time was an enemy....We built the whole truck after hours in 8 weeks for sema..to bare frame and back..!!! over all i think if i were using the truck it would be diiferent...i Probrobly 4 linked i built the truck to look cool and thats about it.....

all kinds of siiick fab on that website

more pics of the arms they are built to look tall but the coil over is only like 1/2'' below centerline ....kinda deciving in the pic

Another Hope this answers some of the ? Mike

^^ bushings on both ends? no upper links? i dont get it

No there uni ball front,heim on the upper part of the link,bushing on the lower at the housing,basically it a glorified ladder bar set up

The tabs.. on the upper part of the arm attatch to a brkt on top of the housing..And have a rh lh thread hiem..for adjustment

The guy with the blue subframe and shock hoops needs to go to Tube Benders Anonymous. And that quad is stunning, in the worst possible way. I don't even see axles...

wow, what a joke!

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Quote[/b] (rednecknate @ Dec. 28 2006,1:27)]The tabs.. on the upper part of the arm attatch to a brkt on top of the housing..And have a rh lh thread hiem..for adjustment

They remind me of Jeep front links. What guys dont understand is they are fine for your application. You're not looking for wheel travel. Anyways, I agree with Mike, clean work.

dont you need some type of upper link to control the side to side movement of the rear end? Seems that there would be tons of load applied to that trailing arm

In one of his pics you can see part of the pan hard bar.

Yes there is a Panhard bar,,,And as Castle said i was not looking for huge wheel travel thanks agian for the compliments i strive to built clean stuff...may not be the trickest..just wait though my ''Prerunner will have like 95"s of rear travel are like 75''s of front With zero caster or camber change...and only 1/64'' inch of bump steer its all being built now by "siickkky sickky nar nar my socks are blackoffroad" in so cal Bye for now love the redneck!!

that black tahoe on the rockwells is my buddies friends in houston. its a nice tahoe for being big thats for sure.
its been traded for a bagged(body dropped also, i think) Colorado.

the guy with the black tahoe with the blue subframe's name is Jason(i think) and ive talked followed his build up of that truck and he did a good job on it i think. it was built for nothin more then shows and to be the tallest truck u could possibly build. the truck he has now is allot nicer but i still respected his truck. hes a pretty modest guy and his subframe was built by a shop if i remember right. even though i wouldnt drive that truck cuz its not my taste i still respect him for building it to be what it is. sorry for sounding like a bitch but the guy is pretty cool and he didnt have anything to do with the fab on that subframe.

his name was james. and BnC offroad built that truck.
ha ya it was just a show truck, although his daily driver also. supposidly got about 14mpg haha

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"Oh look. She's presenting!"

You know, there is a diff between crappy, and impractical... but it's still hell fun to make fun of

I bet it squats pretty good when someone gets on it. I'd give it a run just for the hell of it, but that's about it.

It does have axles, they are polished look closely.

yea thats right its james. knew it was something like that but if anybody has looked at the trucks that come outa bnc they would know how impractical allot of their work can be.

Kickass Jeep XJ convertible I saw over the weekend

do people know what a unibody is?

This thread makes me want to punch people in the face.

As far as the XJ though, ppl chop em up all the time without even reinforcing em, but they don't run em at high speed offroad like that, and with the tire clearance that guy has, I hope he doesn't either.

And once again, I wanna punch ppl in the face now.

Looks better then a commanche in my opinion. Cool if hes happy with it.

http://bncoffroad.com/main.htm

lmao. wonder why this happened?