kd7irm
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This past friday my wife and I met up with Alex (Alrock) in phx and caravaned down south to Tucson to catch up to fellow Hummer freaks, Luis (bigunit) and Michelle (Cotilo). First off, I want to thank them for their hospitality, they are definitely some of the nicest folks on earth! Can't wait to get back there and hit some trails and tackle more mods. :cheers:
Saturday morning we arrived at Luis's lifelong friends shop, Preferred Chassis Fabrication/Scorpion4x4.com, remember monster garage ... yep that's the guy!
First we tackled alrocks cross member bushing mod/refab, Dwayne is amazing, after only looking at the bushing for a few seconds he had re-engineered it (the crossmember, lol) in his head and went to work! (See alrocks post)
After the alrocks crossmember i handed Dwayne the front skids, he climbed under the 3 and came out with questions, a soap stone and grabbed the plasma cutter!
lol. He measured marked and cut the drivers side to clear the fuel tank skid, trimmed and tapered the other side to clean up the look and welded it with enough room to still perform a spring replacement, if needed in the future.
:hack::grind::weld::hack:
On the passenger side Dwayne trimmed and tapered the skid. Both skids are now a permanent part of the spring hangers, he even cut and plug welded them!
This is not to imply that Hunners extreme skids are not perfect the they are, because they are the best out there for sure! but they just got scorpion sting so to say, lol :horns:
Next was the shock/Ubolt skid, first one was the drivers side, took a little finesse from bigunit and me to get every thing lined up and the nuts back on the ubolts, lol. Dewayne and Alex supervised :corn:..... and laughed at our mechanical skills.
next we moved to the passenger side, could not get it all lined back up and nuts threaded :gaah:. Dwayne offered to tacweld them together to make it a little smoother operation. laying them out on the bench we noticed that the bolt holes in the plates did not line up on two of the holes, did a little trimming on the hunner skid plate and a little matching up of the holes with a hole grinder and it went on slick as hell. :thumbs:
next mod we did while it was up on Dwayne's mobile floor jack :wink: was a shackle install. it was over pretty quickly and painless :woot:
More to follow, working on getting the pics up......
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Saturday morning we arrived at Luis's lifelong friends shop, Preferred Chassis Fabrication/Scorpion4x4.com, remember monster garage ... yep that's the guy!
First we tackled alrocks cross member bushing mod/refab, Dwayne is amazing, after only looking at the bushing for a few seconds he had re-engineered it (the crossmember, lol) in his head and went to work! (See alrocks post)
After the alrocks crossmember i handed Dwayne the front skids, he climbed under the 3 and came out with questions, a soap stone and grabbed the plasma cutter!
lol. He measured marked and cut the drivers side to clear the fuel tank skid, trimmed and tapered the other side to clean up the look and welded it with enough room to still perform a spring replacement, if needed in the future.:hack::grind::weld::hack:
On the passenger side Dwayne trimmed and tapered the skid. Both skids are now a permanent part of the spring hangers, he even cut and plug welded them!
This is not to imply that Hunners extreme skids are not perfect the they are, because they are the best out there for sure! but they just got scorpion sting so to say, lol :horns:
Next was the shock/Ubolt skid, first one was the drivers side, took a little finesse from bigunit and me to get every thing lined up and the nuts back on the ubolts, lol. Dewayne and Alex supervised :corn:..... and laughed at our mechanical skills.
next we moved to the passenger side, could not get it all lined back up and nuts threaded :gaah:. Dwayne offered to tacweld them together to make it a little smoother operation. laying them out on the bench we noticed that the bolt holes in the plates did not line up on two of the holes, did a little trimming on the hunner skid plate and a little matching up of the holes with a hole grinder and it went on slick as hell. :thumbs:
next mod we did while it was up on Dwayne's mobile floor jack :wink: was a shackle install. it was over pretty quickly and painless :woot:
More to follow, working on getting the pics up......
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