My New Build

[TEXXCRAWLER]

This is what I bought in Sacramento. I'm gona keep this one away from the dang trees!!

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My new steering:

Toyota P/S box
KRC high pressure P/S pump
Trail Gear 2" ram hydro assyst
large alluminum resevor

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Jan. 14, 2008
Its on like a chicken bone, and the build begins. In my shop at 11:00 pm
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Jan. 15, 08 No more running gear. 3:00 AM
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Got the 1.3 out and started replacing some of the not so straight body parts.

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Built my front cross member
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Made my spring hangers for the rear and ready to bolt them on
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Got most of the body work done.
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16V installed
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front hanger welded on
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Rear axle going in
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Suspension done
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Out w/the old dented and cracked winder frame and in w/the new
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I taped my FJ60 box for Hydro Assist
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FJ60 P/S box is mounted
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Hydro assist is installed
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Front and rear 85 Toyota CV D-lines built and installed
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[TEXXCRAWLER]

Spent Sunday sanding all day
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Primered and welded on beed locks Tuesday
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Smokey
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Got it up on rollers. I gave it a paint job. It is my 1st and up close it looks like a seagle took a **** on it.:haha: One day when I have more time and money I'll get a good paint job.
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I got these corner covers from Trail Tough to cover that nasty dent there on the corner
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Out on to the trailor to the car wash and clean the under carrage so I can paint it.
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Prerdy much trail ready.:driving: I'm still in a bit of a delima about weather I want to have fender flares or not. What do you think?
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Beed locks done and it looks like a beast!
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KRC pump installed
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Trail Gear X-large p/s fluid resevor
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I finished up w/the P/S hyro assist and WOW! No steering probs at all.

Installed the CD player
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Installed the rock lights
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[TEXXCRAWLER]

I put my TT bad boy rock sliders on and a piece of dimond plate on the rocker panel.
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I did not like the chrome dimond plate look so I painted all of the black and it looks alot better.m2c
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Installed my KC lights
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Installed the Trail Tough off set radio antina
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2 months worth of work on this beast almost ready:p

[bigBs84]

looking good man. Maybe you need to leave it in the garage away from any trees.:haha:

[TEXXCRAWLER]

Lay out
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Working on the back
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Front hoop fits really good and tight
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[bigBs84]

sweet :thumbs:

[TEXXCRAWLER]

got the cage all put together and it is very nice.
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[bigBs84]

Thats a good looking cage man

[TEXXCRAWLER]

I'm gona have the local apolstry shop make a custom bikini top for the cage in sted of just running a full soft top all the time.

[yukon6inchlift]

looks like u did a real nice job. thats an awesome zook

[TEXXCRAWLER]

thanx:thumbs:

[jonny]

like the work you've done:thumbs:i like the pics of your old white one-so what the hell happened to your sammi and trailer????I know you hit a RED WOOD but how did it happen and was anything salvageble from the trailer???

[TEXXCRAWLER]

like the work you've done:thumbs:i like the pics of your old white one-so what the hell happened to your sammi and trailer????I know you hit a RED WOOD but how did it happen and was anything salvageble from the trailer???

The red wood tree fell on my Samurai that was on my trailor

[jonny]

talk about ****y luck.were you in the national forrest or outside of it?make the Arnold shwartsanager pay for it.:shout:

[TEXXCRAWLER]

It was on my own property

[jonny]

ouch that sucks.sorry that happened that way.:muted:

[TEXXCRAWLER]

Built me a new 6.5.1 T-case after gernading the other 3. Going with the Rock 4xFabrication Twin Sticks and Low Range offroad shifter boot.
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I've been having problems w/the Toyota brakes on the Samurai Master cylinder so I upgraded to a 97 Isuzu Trooper Master with a bigger boor for the disk brakes front and rear.
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[TEXXCRAWLER]

I'm working on duel cases in my Samurai. I'm doing the set up from Rock4xfrabrication. This involves putting a Sidekick trany and t-case on my 1.6 16V that adapts to the input of my Samurai 6.5.1 t-case.
My new crawl ratio will be 217.1

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[TEXXCRAWLER]

Got my Twin Stick today and fixin to put it in.
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[TEXXCRAWLER]

This is what my Rock Reduction Box looks like. I will be at 219:1 for my gear ratio.

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[lostsamurai]

hey texx i searched rock4xfabrication and could only find toyota/suzuki adapters, was you adapter custom, what did it run you and whats used inside connecting the two shafts. Iwas going to take the female shaft and cut it off the sidekick drive line then weld it to a samurai flange and bolt the 2 together but id prefer to eliminate the divorced setup

[Toyzuki]

http://www.lowrangeoffroad.com/samyotaswap.htm

Down at the bottom of the page.:thumbs:

[TEXXCRAWLER]

hey texx i searched rock4xfabrication and could only find toyota/suzuki adapters, was you adapter custom, what did it run you and whats used inside connecting the two shafts. Iwas going to take the female shaft and cut it off the sidekick drive line then weld it to a samurai flange and bolt the 2 together but id prefer to eliminate the divorced setup

It is a custom build. He does 10 at a time. He doesn't have it posted on his web page. You have to call Scott the owner of Rock4XFabrication. You will need to get a Kick or Tracker trany-t-case married setup. The t-case will be shipped to Rock4Xfab so he can build it. $675.00 and then shipping. It becomes a complete married application to the stock t-case that stays in the stock position as you can see in the pic. I'm also using the Trail Gear t-case mounts so it will be a solid setup. I hope everything works out good, I will let yall know.:thumbs:

[TEXXCRAWLER]

Got my Rock Reduction box today and I'm putting it in this weekend

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[TEXXCRAWLER]

You will have to excuse the mess but I'm also in the middle of cooking up so fuel. Here are some more pics. I have some close ups and where it mounts. I got it mounted in my Mighty Kong from Trail Tough. Also put on all the shifters along with my Twin sticks from Rock4XFab.

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[TEXXCRAWLER]

I have to say this is one hell of a bad a$$ piece of work :thumbs:

[TEXXCRAWLER]

This was not an easy task. Scott @ Rock4x was correst about using a sissor jack to open up the trany tunel for the kick trany to fit. The hardest thing about this install is how heavy it is. I'm saying the easiest way I could see to install is to start by installing the kick t-case and the Samurai t-case as one and push it as far back as possible to allow you enough room to put in the kick trany.
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This is the amount of space I had between my trany and t-case when I got the trany in and then I was ready to pull the duel case setup forwasr to adapt to the kick trany.
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Here are some pics of everything maited together from under neith.
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This is the only major cutting on the tub I had to do besides the small hole for the kick t-case shifter.
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The front part of the seat rail has to come out to make the hole for the kick t-case shifter
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This is where I drilled my new hole for the seat rail to be supported. Everything in front of that hole will be cut off.
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Tomorrow I will be doing the fabrication of the holes I cut to make everything look stock again.

[lostsamurai]

cani just buy the adapter and brackets and splined sleeve so i can cut down my own kick case? I run a kick motor and auto tranny 4x4 but i sold the t case so if i buy a new one and cut the front output off, i already have the sami case with 6.5:1 gears i just want to do the work myself

[TEXXCRAWLER]

cani just buy the adapter and brackets and splined sleeve so i can cut down my own kick case? I run a kick motor and auto tranny 4x4 but i sold the t case so if i buy a new one and cut the front output off, i already have the sami case with 6.5:1 gears i just want to do the work myself

I'm sure you could but that would seem to be more of a headake than it would to just have Scatt build it and you would have someone to back their work. Call him and ask.

This is a link to someone who built their own. Yes it is something that can be done but I don't have access to all the machinery that he has.

http://bbs.zuwharrie.com/content/topic,79430.0.html

This is the link to www.rock4xfabrication.com so you can call Scott

[TEXXCRAWLER]

I started out with this piece of dimond plate because I really like everything to look good.

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Got it bent into place where I wanted it.

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This is what it looks like w/the trany shifter and the black stuff is some rubber so I can make it as water proof as possible.

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Here is an over view of what it looks like finished. The twin sticks prooved to be a pain in the ass as I thought they would have been being that I could not put the in conected to the t-case.

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[lostsamurai]

that looks so cool im going to call and get the stuff i just need a tracker t case and im ready to go i run an automatick sidekick tranny so i really need even lower gears than my 6.5:1 sami case has

[norzuki]

Looking real good there Tex :thumbs:

Dave

[TEXXCRAWLER]

THANX :thumbs::D

[TEXXCRAWLER]

I did a test run down at Hollister w/the new duel t-cases and it was bad A$$
It is so low now that I can crawl the mini Rubicon in 4-high