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New DD/project.

Post by SilverWagon05 » Sun Aug 10, 2014 8:04 am

With my recent move, my daily commute has increased substantially, which started to get very expensive, not to mention being very sad to see my off-road beast turning in to a pavement princess. I decided to pick me up a new daily driver/project......and here it is!
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Put it to work the very first day I had it.
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I'm now getting a little over 30mpg and having a blast doing it. I had one of these as my first vehicle back in high school and always kicked myself for ever getting rid of it. I had been looking around for another one for a few years now and just couldn't find one in any kind of decent shape or price. Then about a month ago, this one just fell right in to my lap. It's an '88 with 50k original miles and is in excellent condition. Being that it is my daily driver, it is going to be a very slow build and I'm not going crazy with it...yet. I'm not blasting through traffic with it, but it does pretty much keep up. The best part of all is I've now been able to teach my boys how to drive a manual. They love driving this thing out in the hills.
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Re: New DD/project.

Post by cruz » Sun Aug 10, 2014 8:21 am

Nice , ones that clean are getting hard to find.
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Post by Ducky's Dad » Sun Aug 10, 2014 1:00 pm

I looked for one about 15 years ago here in So Cal when I thought it would be good for hunting in tight areas where the full size trucks just couldn't go. Even back then there were none available at sensible prices because they were a bit of a cult item. So I quit looking.
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Post by Will » Sun Aug 10, 2014 1:27 pm

That reminds me of a time we were wheeling back in some sand pits and a fella had one. His tie rod broke, we tied it up really good with mule tape and he went another two hours. Then he turned the wrong way and went too deep in a water hole and locked it. I pulled him back to his house about 4 miles away with my four wheeler. He took the plugs out, put some diesel in the crank case and turned it over a few times for about 20 seconds at a time. Drained the oil, filled it back up, plugs back in and fired it off. By the next weekend, he was back in action. Ha ha
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Post by 05PWrockcrawler » Sun Aug 10, 2014 2:07 pm

Very nice! Need to do a 1.6 swap. My Dad did it to his Suzi! Big difference on power.
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Re: New DD/project.

Post by SilverWagon05 » Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:32 pm

cruz wrote:Nice , ones that clean are getting hard to find.
Yes they are. I got lucky with this one!
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Pure Performance long arms, 6" Thuren soft ride coils, Walker Evans 2.0 Front and Fox 2.0 rear shocks, HD adj. track bar, 37/13.5/17 Toyo Open Country M/T's, 17x9 Moto Metal 951-black, dual-modified Amp Power steps, Custom rock sliders and front and rear tube bumpers, rear lower quarter panel delete, Challenger Narrow truck box - black, AEM Brute Force CAI, SC Flashpaq, Flowtech shorty headers, Gibson Extreme Dual Cat-Back (chopped), Line-X Bed liner, Locker bypass, Black locking Billet Gas filler door, WeatherTech smoked inchannel vent visors & floor liners, Recon LED smoked cab lights, smoked LED 3rd brake light, smoked LED tail lights, smoked projector headlights, Viair constant duty OBA, DOR steering box brace, PowerStop drilled & slotted rotors w/ ceramic pads, Spicer Life series front axle u-joints, DOR sway bar links, DOR steering linkage, Borgeson steering shaft and steering gear, PSC Hydro-assist, Thuren adjustable shackles, leaf spring bracket modification, coil retainer modification, Spyntech Shorty Free Spin conversion, custom long travel heavy duty front drive shaft, Rock crusher rear diff cover, Carli front diff guard, Masterpull synthetic winch rope, 2-6" KC 130w Longrange lights behind the grill, 100w fog lights, 55w floodlights mounted on rear bumper, High/Low/Fog all-on mod, Pioneer head unit, MTX Thunderform with 2-10's, Tekonsha P3 brake controller, Timbren SES.
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Post by Mr.Smith » Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:32 pm

Sweet! Nice score!
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Post by SilverWagon05 » Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:35 pm

Ducky's Dad wrote:I looked for one about 15 years ago here in So Cal when I thought it would be good for hunting in tight areas where the full size trucks just couldn't go. Even back then there were none available at sensible prices because they were a bit of a cult item. So I quit looking.
I initially started looking for one a few years back for the same reason. Hunting and trail riding. The whole family fits in it and it still has tighter dimensions than a RZR4!
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Pure Performance long arms, 6" Thuren soft ride coils, Walker Evans 2.0 Front and Fox 2.0 rear shocks, HD adj. track bar, 37/13.5/17 Toyo Open Country M/T's, 17x9 Moto Metal 951-black, dual-modified Amp Power steps, Custom rock sliders and front and rear tube bumpers, rear lower quarter panel delete, Challenger Narrow truck box - black, AEM Brute Force CAI, SC Flashpaq, Flowtech shorty headers, Gibson Extreme Dual Cat-Back (chopped), Line-X Bed liner, Locker bypass, Black locking Billet Gas filler door, WeatherTech smoked inchannel vent visors & floor liners, Recon LED smoked cab lights, smoked LED 3rd brake light, smoked LED tail lights, smoked projector headlights, Viair constant duty OBA, DOR steering box brace, PowerStop drilled & slotted rotors w/ ceramic pads, Spicer Life series front axle u-joints, DOR sway bar links, DOR steering linkage, Borgeson steering shaft and steering gear, PSC Hydro-assist, Thuren adjustable shackles, leaf spring bracket modification, coil retainer modification, Spyntech Shorty Free Spin conversion, custom long travel heavy duty front drive shaft, Rock crusher rear diff cover, Carli front diff guard, Masterpull synthetic winch rope, 2-6" KC 130w Longrange lights behind the grill, 100w fog lights, 55w floodlights mounted on rear bumper, High/Low/Fog all-on mod, Pioneer head unit, MTX Thunderform with 2-10's, Tekonsha P3 brake controller, Timbren SES.
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Re: New DD/project.

Post by SilverWagon05 » Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:40 pm

05PWrockcrawler wrote:Very nice! Need to do a 1.6 swap. My Dad did it to his Suzi! Big difference on power.
That would definitely be nice. Going to hold off on major projects for a while though. For now, I have a few small maintenance issues to address and some minimal upgrades. I do have some crazy ideas swimming around though :rockon: I just can't leave things alone :excited:
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Pure Performance long arms, 6" Thuren soft ride coils, Walker Evans 2.0 Front and Fox 2.0 rear shocks, HD adj. track bar, 37/13.5/17 Toyo Open Country M/T's, 17x9 Moto Metal 951-black, dual-modified Amp Power steps, Custom rock sliders and front and rear tube bumpers, rear lower quarter panel delete, Challenger Narrow truck box - black, AEM Brute Force CAI, SC Flashpaq, Flowtech shorty headers, Gibson Extreme Dual Cat-Back (chopped), Line-X Bed liner, Locker bypass, Black locking Billet Gas filler door, WeatherTech smoked inchannel vent visors & floor liners, Recon LED smoked cab lights, smoked LED 3rd brake light, smoked LED tail lights, smoked projector headlights, Viair constant duty OBA, DOR steering box brace, PowerStop drilled & slotted rotors w/ ceramic pads, Spicer Life series front axle u-joints, DOR sway bar links, DOR steering linkage, Borgeson steering shaft and steering gear, PSC Hydro-assist, Thuren adjustable shackles, leaf spring bracket modification, coil retainer modification, Spyntech Shorty Free Spin conversion, custom long travel heavy duty front drive shaft, Rock crusher rear diff cover, Carli front diff guard, Masterpull synthetic winch rope, 2-6" KC 130w Longrange lights behind the grill, 100w fog lights, 55w floodlights mounted on rear bumper, High/Low/Fog all-on mod, Pioneer head unit, MTX Thunderform with 2-10's, Tekonsha P3 brake controller, Timbren SES.
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Post by verdesardog » Wed Aug 13, 2014 10:31 am

I looked at those many years ago but my lanky body just doesn't fit into the drivers seat.....not enough leg room
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Post by RustyPW » Wed Aug 13, 2014 11:34 pm

Looks like you could fit that in the bed of your PW.
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Post by Cactus Red » Thu Aug 14, 2014 12:42 am

You might want to check out one of my old crawlin' acquaintances from back in the 1999 2006 time frame. Chris built some wicked wheelers. I still know a few of the BTG crew.

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Post by cruz » Thu Aug 14, 2014 9:59 pm

SilverWagon05 wrote: The whole family fits in it and it still has tighter dimensions than a RZR4!
Plus it's street legal. 8-)
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Post by fyrfytr704 » Sat Aug 16, 2014 9:59 am

verdesardog wrote:I looked at those many years ago but my lanky body just doesn't fit into the drivers seat.....not enough leg room
x2! I remember rolling one of those multiple times... not as much fun as I had expected. The good news is that it was caged and we knew we were going to roll. It's still not a fun thing to get tossed around in since I could almost reach any part of it from the passenger seat!
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Post by lastmanalliance » Sun Aug 17, 2014 7:36 pm

I'm looking at getting one of these for my DD also. Great little rigs
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