4x4 North

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Looking good, flexes good, should work good.

Im assuming this is cancelled now due to all this Covid nonsense?

they are waiting till the last minute to make an announcement, its not looking good though.
wort case they will be rescheduling for later in the year but it will happen in 2020 one way or another

Just seen a post on FB saying they postponed it to late August

HMF wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:16 pm Just seen a post on FB saying they postponed it to late August

so that should almost give you enough time to get your truggy ready

Snowracer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 01, 2020 9:19 am

HMF wrote: ↑Tue Mar 31, 2020 8:16 pm Just seen a post on FB saying they postponed it to late August

so that should almost give you enough time to get your truggy ready

No he means the august coming up not 2021

Yeah, postponed till August... gaaay... This beer virus bullshit is getting out of hand.

On the positive side that'll give me a bit more seat time, and should allow for a few more upgrades if the budget allows.
I'd really like to ditch the poly bumpstops in favor of some air bumps, see if i can't turd polish the poor people suspension a bit.

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So island cup wasn't a go. Turned into a local invite only race with no spectators, really gay.

I doubt the rules are gonna ease up all that much before spring so hopefully they just go ahead with next year regardless. Not hopefull though :( :(

In the meantime I wheeled the shit out of the ftoy this year, raced Quesnel twice and came home with a win both times!

After the Sept 25th race I put it up on blocks and sold the Toyota diffs, in the process of putting together a set of superduty diffs for it this winter.

Front is an 05+ super 60 front, cut and swapped the axle tubes for Toyota offset, 5.13 gears, welded, 2.75x10" PSC full hydro ram, 1550 f450 shafts, redrilling to 8x6.5 and fitting sterling rear calipers so I can run 16's, triangulated 4 link with radflo 2" remote resevoir coilovers.

Rear is a 10+ sterling 10.5, 5.13, factory e-locker.
Keeping the rear leafs for now.


Goodbye Toyota diffs


Scored some 42" iroks and built some weld on beadlocks.



Wrapping the inner bead with a few wraps of pilsner duck tape....



Axle is stripped, tubes are swapped, just working on mocking up link mounts, truss and hydro mount with the help of some "cardboard assisted design"



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Keep us updated as this comes along

looks good you need to start a thread in the build section

Definitely needs a build thread. I’ve got lots to learn

I'm assuming your planning on upgrading the powerplant with your axle choices

Starting cutting some frame off the front, then cut some more, then cut it all off....






Then started rebuilding with dom









Steering should be between 45 and 50 degrees :)





As usual I got carried away and turned a simple diff swap into a big job.

Front diff is all assembled and off for blasting and polyurethane.
While I ghetto spraybomb the rest.....

I picked up a 2011 elocker sterling 10.5 for cheap. Not realizing that you can't get 5.13 gear for the 10+ rear diffs.
So after stripping it down I got a free 2003 sterling and stripped it down, regeared and retrofitted the elocker into the early housing. Just gotta weld spring perches and a traction bar mount and brakes and the rear is done.
Then the rad is getting mounted in the rear and its back on 4 wheels and I'm going snow wheeling!

Power plant is staying for now, I think a turbo is in my future though, not sure beyond that....

Im too technologically retarded to start over and do a build thread right now. Lol.

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Hardly took any pics of the actual process, just a few progress pics here and there, doh!

Using 96-07ish rear e350 rotors front and rear.
Had to machine a few thouh of the fronts to clear the hubs.
Welded some janky brackets onto the front knuckles to accommodate 3/4 gmc calipers. I'd like to figure out a better way down the road but the 05+ knuckles don't make it easy.

Now it's 8x6.5, clears 16's no problem and weight savings of 40+ lbs.

Cutting and swapping axle tubes was pretty straight forward, just really labour intensive stripping the stock mounts off the diff..

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