Pete M

how off is it?

not a jeep, but I'm sure many parents can relate. my dad gave up his TR-6 when I was born for a 4 dr car. seems mom didn't want to keep driving around with me sitting on the floor.

I love me some shiny new parts!

whatever the effort, it's looking fantastic. some things are worth the work.

I knew that green truck looked familiar

wow!

that would be sweet. just need to get the new truck in running order though.

there's a ton of swap info in the link in my sig

I could fit the whole truck if I had a pic that was just a bit taller.

well, it looks like we've formulated a plan. going to just rent a dolly and haul it to my cousin's place for him to slice and dice at his leisure. this gets it out of the driveway right now and has the side benefit of the axles and trans can then be set aside for resale later on and the body can get hauled in for scrap. The hood will be removed as soon as I get another set of hands here and the hatch will stay on for the drive but he will set it aside for me later. oh, and the steering will remain so he can maneuver it in the yard but will definitely be saved.

it came with the forum software.

nice :) you should include your vin though.

done

go for it maybe start at the oldest one?

is it this one?

wait, are we talking about this particular trend? this is not an island thing. it's everywhere. my guess is they are copying what they see at truck shows, where low profile tires are frequently used because they are cheaper and don't block the views of their shiny new suspension parts they are pimping. plus I'm sure none of the owners want to trim the fenders on their $70k rig to fit a decent tire.

I've known of a handful of Jeeps and other little 4x4s set up with engine hoists or mini cranes on the rear, but this may be the first I'd seen that went all-in with a forklift. kudos to him.

so far you're a one man band, so you can start wherever you'd like if others chime in, then we can get more organized. Just looking for maybe the 3-5 best mods, focusing on the things that got them in Epic Tech in the first place (like a 5.3L v8 swap, turbo 4.0L, Exocage, etc). don't worry about making a huge list of all the mods for each truck. If the Epic threads go well and we get more help, we can certainly expand to do all the project threads

that's a bit disconcerting. manufacturing defect?

is 96 a 27 spline or 19 spline?

So it's been a while now since I had the idea of adding "tags" and haven't been able to find the time to do it myself and then I learned that regular members couldn't add tags to threads like admins can so I couldn't farm it out... so I've come up with a plan C: see if one or more of you guys would like to skim through the Epic tech threads and jot down the highlights of the projects in a way that I can then use your notes to add in "tags" that help people know what's inside said threads (V8, turbo, 1-ton axles, whatever it is that makes it special). Sound like something anyone would like to do?

did yours break? new distributor doesn't have one?

my best guess is that the little things are for "legal" reasons and they run giant tires offroad. just a best-case-scenario guess though.

not yet! but someday for sure.