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mmmKAY.... time to think about running gear. Strength-wise, a well-built Dana 60 is my benchmark. So I started there. I combed through lots of information, lusting over names like "Currie", "Dynatrac", etc... Beautiful stuff. Almost pornographically attractive, as far as axles go... But...

Alrighty, so I'm seeing all KINDS of really awesome trucks built up using Aqualu / Hardbody 4x4 rear tub-beds... kind of like a divorced-cab Scrambler. What chassis length are those?... Strangely-enough, 115-ish! How Serendipitous! Roy again starts off a sentence with, "I know a guy who..."...

What about wheel base?... Longer than a Wrangler, shorter than a Ram. So that puts us between 93.4 and 140.5... how 'bout 115-ish kinda in the middle? Well... lets just throw that sucker in a CAD program and see what it might look like when I get it all set up for booney-stompin'. Looks...

Tranny? (no, not THAT kind, though there's nothing wrong with it... Hey, I still listen to 1988 Twisted Sister and Dee Snyder WAS that kind of tranny back when it wasn't so common). TRANSMISSION!! Manual or Automagic. I've been an avowed manual driver with almost all of my vehicles. But ya...

Luckily, Roy's Boys... that's "boys" in the gender sense, not age or experience... are most DEFINITELY fabricators and dream builders. They've been doing this stuff for a long time. So IF I decide to actually go through with this thing (yeah, right), the fab and assembly are in good hands...

We talk back and forth over a couple of weeks and I thought, "Hey... can't hurt to do some quick drawings in CAD just to see what it might look like." The more I draw, the more interested I got. Roy, being a friend and not just a business owner, says something along the lines of , "Dude, you...

Thought I'd take a stab at doing a build thread, after reading through so many excellent ones on this and other sites. However, since I'm such a wordy busterd (term coined by my masters program adviser), it's probably not the typical build-thread. Also... as I've discovered, what works on Rig A...

Thank you! She’s rolling but not on the road yet. Hopefully early Feb.

Great thread! I just joined up and became a member. My Frankenjeep TJ8 is almost ready to roll... been working on it for better than a year now. Once she's rolling and reliable, I look forward to many miles of smiles. ~doc

Greetings all! Newly registered and joined as a member (no # yet). Grew up in WV in an outdoors family. Camping, hiking, fishing, etc. Now work as an engineer in manufacturing and reliability. Located in Northern KY, but travel frequently. I'm working on my second overlanding vehicle...