[Project] Living up to my username

kovz34 · 06-21-2007, 02:23 PM

damn adam, im impressed. i saw this thread when you first started it, but have not looked again until now.
my plan is to do exactly what you are... graduate college and get my first job as an EE and start bagging my truck next summer. Probably exactly one year from now im going to start a thread just like this. So, in the mean time, it's research time. I already started a list of what I want and im sure ill edit it along the ways when i read up more.
Anyways, i am now subscribed. good luck on everything, and i hope to ( / better) see you and your bagged X at carlisle this year... it's my first year going!

xtucking22s · 06-21-2007, 04:44 PM

thats awesome mike, it sounds like a good plan...cuz its exactly what mine was

xtucking22s · 06-22-2007, 12:57 AM

Ok I got lots done today, lots of pics below.
My valves that were on backorder came today, they are 3/8" and they are a lot smaller then i imagined, i like it! And i got me a shirt....not like i have enough allready haha.

ive had this sticker since i recieved my roll pan from SD back in the fall, and i felt its finally time to rock the sticker. lol, its probably a temporary deal, we'll see though

Now, todays real progress. First got the front link bar frame mounts on.

figured before i mock up the axle id get rid of my 3rd shock (hop shock- the zq8s and xtreme came with this shock to reduce wheel hop. although I never had mine in place, it was wierd. so the mount had to go cuz it was worthless and in the way

cut off wheel

grinder

flap disked...which is how im going clean up the rest of the axle later on

Then we jump ahead to basically the entire 5 link installed. i ran into a small(well big problem if I needed this together tonight but I dont). SD must have forgotten to pack my bag of 10 bolts for the differential because you cant reuse the stock ones because they need to now be longer due to the differential bracket thats part of the 5 link. So I need to talk to SD (Dave) tomorrow about getting me those bolts, I was also short 4 bolts (and nuts, washers, and lock washers) for the new crossmembers, so I will take care of it tomorrow:

Ill need to drill out a small hole in the front of the axle pad for the front link bar, it hits when the truck will be at full lift(basically the position i have the axle sitting now.)

BeyondeXtReMe · 06-22-2007, 01:16 AM

Looks awesome! I love the picture of the dif cover, but man all this bolt on stuff make me leary, I'd be way to tempted to weld it and mess up the nice clean look of the candy powercoating

LowNoma22 · 06-22-2007, 01:27 AM

awesome man looks sweet

zaathur151 · 06-22-2007, 01:34 AM

lookin good

Xtreme24 · 06-22-2007, 01:43 AM

good progress.

lowdime96 · 06-22-2007, 02:28 AM

damn its coming along nice man. Deffinitely worth getting those parts powdercoated too. Painted parts always rust.

Slammed83Mazda · 06-22-2007, 02:47 AM

looks awsome bro, you will honestly get real tired of the dragstar sticker. I had so many local people ask me and joke about " your a drag queen" and shit and i got tired of explaining what it is, so its no longer on my truck.

Slammed03 · 06-22-2007, 03:12 AM

....hummmm.....
the more i read the more i think my truck is a zq8....you said the 3 shock mount was only on zq8s and extremes...also the extra brace......well i have both...how can i tell for sure????.....thats kinda weird....

oh yeh....nice progress

01 BRaVaDa DRiVa · 06-22-2007, 04:05 AM

you're trucks comming along nice man cant wait to see it finished

mister880 · 06-22-2007, 08:32 AM

moving along real fast. looks real good adam.

slammed03- check your RPO codes, there is a sticker inside your glove box, run them rpo codes with the rpo code decoder located on this site. that will tell you every option your truck has.

xtucking22s · 06-22-2007, 09:01 AM

Thanks everyone! Im definitly very happy with the amount of progress I made last night

Quote: Originally Posted by lowdime96

damn its coming along nice man. Deffinitely worth getting those parts powdercoated too. Painted parts always rust.

ya that was one of the big reasons why i did powder coat, for the simple reason that i dont want anything rusting. Although i gottta say i thought powdercoat was more durable then this is, this stuff will stratch pretty easily if you bump it. just from handling the parts allready i got a couple of stratched(where the powdercoat was removed). Oh well, thats life I guess.

Quote: Originally Posted by Slammed83Mazda

looks awsome bro, you will honestly get real tired of the dragstar sticker. I had so many local people ask me and joke about " your a drag queen" and shit and i got tired of explaining what it is, so its no longer on my truck.

ya i figured thats whats going to happen to me so i just put it on there for fun while im baggin it and all. once im back into the real show scene again after this year's projects im sure ill take it off.

kovz34 · 06-22-2007, 10:53 AM

man i love that chrome diff cover. too bad you are tubing it. that stuff is gonna look so purty under there, haha

xtucking22s · 06-22-2007, 10:56 AM

ya it is a shame that the bed will be tubbed and covered up, but oh well. I gotta keep the bed water tight for the project im doing with the inside of the bed after im done bagging it

MGSDime97 · 06-22-2007, 02:20 PM

yea dave will hook u up on the missing bolts. they left my differential bolts out also. as for the spring perches on the axle, you need to take quite a bit out of the front of them so the bar wont hit, i used a hole saw on mine

xtucking22s · 06-22-2007, 02:22 PM

ya I allready talked to Dave, he is gonna get me them bolts. and I also was planning on using a hole saw for the axle brackets

TooLowTooGo · 06-22-2007, 02:23 PM

lookin damn good!

Slammed03 · 06-22-2007, 03:53 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by mister880

moving along real fast. looks real good adam.

slammed03- check your RPO codes, there is a sticker inside your glove box, run them rpo codes with the rpo code decoder located on this site. that will tell you every option your truck has.

yeh i wanna know if it is a zq8 not know all the options my truck has...thanks anyways

mister880 · 06-22-2007, 04:02 PM

well then go into the rpo decoder and find out. that's the sure way to know if you have a zq8. unless you still have the dealer sticker from your truck.

Slammed03 · 06-22-2007, 04:06 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by mister880

well then go into the rpo decoder and find out. that's the sure way to know if you have a zq8. unless you still have the dealer sticker from your truck.

my bad xtuckin20s...i dont mean to take over your thread....

but i went and typed all the codes and it just told me all the options...i didnt see anything telling me what type s10 it is....hummmm

layinbody31 · 06-22-2007, 10:26 PM

looks good man

hope to see a lot of progress this weekend

xtucking22s · 06-22-2007, 11:35 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Slammed03

my bad xtuckin20s...i dont mean to take over your thread....

but i went and typed all the codes and it just told me all the options...i didnt see anything telling me what type s10 it is....hummmm

its cool and its xtucking22s not 20s lol.

not much big visible progress will come out of this weekend, the next BIG thing on the to do list is weld the notch in, and thats next weekend, until then its trying to relocate evap canister thing, clean the frame more, and some other miscelaneous(sp?) things

xtucking22s · 06-23-2007, 02:51 AM

Tonights progress, as always im a picture whore, sucks to be you if you got 56K.....
notched the axle pads to allow the front link bar mounts to travel freely without hitting them.....so i used a hole saw first

then used a cut off wheel to cut of the rest

back to this later...
I cut off the brake line bracket, gonna weld it back onto the notch later

I dunno what this weight looking thing is on the axle housing, the damn axle housing doesnt spin so why is there this little weight thing?

well anyways as my new saying goes "when in doubt, cut it out!"

Spent a lot of time on this tonight, used the flap disc wheel on my grinder and began to realy clean the axle. I got tons more work to do on this lol

and this is just a nice little close up of how the axle pads look once notched

I talked to Dave at SD about the missing bolts, he said he would ship them out. I had asked if he could overnight them but he didnt specify if he did it overnight or regular shipping, I guess I'll find out tomorrow now wont I.

Slammed03 · 06-23-2007, 03:48 AM

snakenet · 06-23-2007, 04:15 AM

lookin good bro!! check out my thread too, im doing the same thing, but i made my 5 link, i do kinda wish i just bought the sd one tho, sooo much work.

Twin-10s · 06-23-2007, 11:46 AM

Quote:

I dunno what this weight looking thing is on the axle housing, the damn axle housing doesnt spin so why is there this little weight thing?

they are not weights, they were there to locate the rear sway bar. not need anymore for sure.
looking good so far.

cpolaris502 · 06-23-2007, 12:04 PM

haha, i kind of thought they were weights too. they come off easily with a hammer and a chisel though.

Chris0nllyn · 06-23-2007, 12:10 PM

lookin good dude!

xtucking22s · 06-23-2007, 01:03 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by snakenet

lookin good bro!! check out my thread too, im doing the same thing, but i made my 5 link, i do kinda wish i just bought the sd one tho, sooo much work.

allright cool man, im subscribed now. But ya this SD one i well worth the money, very well thought out

Quote: Originally Posted by Twin-10s

they are not weights, they were there to locate the rear sway bar. not need anymore for sure.
looking good so far.

oh ok, that makes a lot more sense now haha.

And thanks everyone for the compliments as always....and now that I slept in till noon on a saturday(i love sleeping in!), it is now time to go out to the garage for the day, ill be back with updates and pictures later on today/tonight

06-21-2007, 02:23 PM	#251
kovz34 I needs paint! Age: 23 Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 8,189 Location: Pittsburgh, PA User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username damn adam, im impressed. i saw this thread when you first started it, but have not looked again until now. my plan is to do exactly what you are... graduate college and get my first job as an EE and start bagging my truck next summer. Probably exactly one year from now im going to start a thread just like this. So, in the mean time, it's research time. I already started a list of what I want and im sure ill edit it along the ways when i read up more. Anyways, i am now subscribed. good luck on everything, and i hope to ( / better) see you and your bagged X at carlisle this year... it's my first year going!
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06-21-2007, 04:44 PM	#252
xtucking22s I want sonoma grill! Age: 23 Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 7,679 Location: Phoenix, MD User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username thats awesome mike, it sounds like a good plan...cuz its exactly what mine was
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06-22-2007, 12:57 AM	#253
xtucking22s I want sonoma grill! Age: 23 Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 7,679 Location: Phoenix, MD User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username Ok I got lots done today, lots of pics below. My valves that were on backorder came today, they are 3/8" and they are a lot smaller then i imagined, i like it! And i got me a shirt....not like i have enough allready haha. ive had this sticker since i recieved my roll pan from SD back in the fall, and i felt its finally time to rock the sticker. lol, its probably a temporary deal, we'll see though Now, todays real progress. First got the front link bar frame mounts on. figured before i mock up the axle id get rid of my 3rd shock (hop shock- the zq8s and xtreme came with this shock to reduce wheel hop. although I never had mine in place, it was wierd. so the mount had to go cuz it was worthless and in the way cut off wheel grinder flap disked...which is how im going clean up the rest of the axle later on Then we jump ahead to basically the entire 5 link installed. i ran into a small(well big problem if I needed this together tonight but I dont). SD must have forgotten to pack my bag of 10 bolts for the differential because you cant reuse the stock ones because they need to now be longer due to the differential bracket thats part of the 5 link. So I need to talk to SD (Dave) tomorrow about getting me those bolts, I was also short 4 bolts (and nuts, washers, and lock washers) for the new crossmembers, so I will take care of it tomorrow: Ill need to drill out a small hole in the front of the axle pad for the front link bar, it hits when the truck will be at full lift(basically the position i have the axle sitting now.)
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06-22-2007, 01:16 AM	#254
BeyondeXtReMe Registered User Age: 22 Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 2,415 Location: Halifax, NS, Canada User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username Looks awesome! I love the picture of the dif cover, but man all this bolt on stuff make me leary, I'd be way to tempted to weld it and mess up the nice clean look of the candy powercoating
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06-22-2007, 01:27 AM	#255
LowNoma22 Registered User Age: 17 Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 2,336 Location: Highland, Illinois User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username awesome man looks sweet
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06-22-2007, 01:34 AM	#256
zaathur151 KCSSERIES Age: 20 Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,573 Location: Odessa Mo. User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username lookin good
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06-22-2007, 01:43 AM	#257
Xtreme24 DeXtreme on 20/22's Age: 22 Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 3,537 Location: DFW, Texas User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username good progress.
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06-22-2007, 02:28 AM	#258
lowdime96 Disturbed Image Trucks Age: 23 Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 5,215 Location: Southington, CT User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username damn its coming along nice man. Deffinitely worth getting those parts powdercoated too. Painted parts always rust.
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06-22-2007, 02:47 AM	#259
Slammed83Mazda BoughtThenRebuilt3Times:( Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 2,016 Location: Errrrwere User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username looks awsome bro, you will honestly get real tired of the dragstar sticker. I had so many local people ask me and joke about " your a drag queen" and shit and i got tired of explaining what it is, so its no longer on my truck.
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06-22-2007, 03:12 AM	#260
Slammed03 Twizted Intentions Age: 21 Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,658 Location: Radcliff, Ky User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username ....hummmm..... the more i read the more i think my truck is a zq8....you said the 3 shock mount was only on zq8s and extremes...also the extra brace......well i have both...how can i tell for sure????.....thats kinda weird.... oh yeh....nice progress Last edited by Slammed03 : 06-22-2007 at 03:16 AM.
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06-22-2007, 04:05 AM	#261
01 BRaVaDa DRiVa shaved...like my girls Age: 20 Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 404 Location: Pennsylvania User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username you're trucks comming along nice man cant wait to see it finished
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06-22-2007, 08:32 AM	#262
mister880 Registered User Age: 21 Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 5,694 Location: St Marys County, MD User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username moving along real fast. looks real good adam. slammed03- check your RPO codes, there is a sticker inside your glove box, run them rpo codes with the rpo code decoder located on this site. that will tell you every option your truck has.
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06-22-2007, 09:01 AM	#263
xtucking22s I want sonoma grill! Age: 23 Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 7,679 Location: Phoenix, MD User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username Thanks everyone! Im definitly very happy with the amount of progress I made last night Quote: Originally Posted by lowdime96 damn its coming along nice man. Deffinitely worth getting those parts powdercoated too. Painted parts always rust. ya that was one of the big reasons why i did powder coat, for the simple reason that i dont want anything rusting. Although i gottta say i thought powdercoat was more durable then this is, this stuff will stratch pretty easily if you bump it. just from handling the parts allready i got a couple of stratched(where the powdercoat was removed). Oh well, thats life I guess. Quote: Originally Posted by Slammed83Mazda looks awsome bro, you will honestly get real tired of the dragstar sticker. I had so many local people ask me and joke about " your a drag queen" and shit and i got tired of explaining what it is, so its no longer on my truck. ya i figured thats whats going to happen to me so i just put it on there for fun while im baggin it and all. once im back into the real show scene again after this year's projects im sure ill take it off. Last edited by xtucking22s : 06-22-2007 at 09:02 AM.
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06-22-2007, 10:53 AM	#264
kovz34 I needs paint! Age: 23 Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 8,189 Location: Pittsburgh, PA User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username man i love that chrome diff cover. too bad you are tubing it. that stuff is gonna look so purty under there, haha
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06-22-2007, 10:56 AM	#265
xtucking22s I want sonoma grill! Age: 23 Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 7,679 Location: Phoenix, MD User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username ya it is a shame that the bed will be tubbed and covered up, but oh well. I gotta keep the bed water tight for the project im doing with the inside of the bed after im done bagging it
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06-22-2007, 02:20 PM	#266
MGSDime97 Registered User Age: 21 Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 1,012 Location: Gibsonville, NC User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username yea dave will hook u up on the missing bolts. they left my differential bolts out also. as for the spring perches on the axle, you need to take quite a bit out of the front of them so the bar wont hit, i used a hole saw on mine
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06-22-2007, 02:22 PM	#267
xtucking22s I want sonoma grill! Age: 23 Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 7,679 Location: Phoenix, MD User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username ya I allready talked to Dave, he is gonna get me them bolts. and I also was planning on using a hole saw for the axle brackets
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06-22-2007, 02:23 PM	#268
TooLowTooGo Registered User Age: 23 Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 257 Location: User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username lookin damn good!
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06-22-2007, 03:53 PM	#269
Slammed03 Twizted Intentions Age: 21 Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,658 Location: Radcliff, Ky User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username Quote: Originally Posted by mister880 moving along real fast. looks real good adam. slammed03- check your RPO codes, there is a sticker inside your glove box, run them rpo codes with the rpo code decoder located on this site. that will tell you every option your truck has. yeh i wanna know if it is a zq8 not know all the options my truck has...thanks anyways
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06-22-2007, 04:02 PM	#270
mister880 Registered User Age: 21 Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 5,694 Location: St Marys County, MD User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username well then go into the rpo decoder and find out. that's the sure way to know if you have a zq8. unless you still have the dealer sticker from your truck.
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06-22-2007, 04:06 PM	#271
Slammed03 Twizted Intentions Age: 21 Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,658 Location: Radcliff, Ky User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username Quote: Originally Posted by mister880 well then go into the rpo decoder and find out. that's the sure way to know if you have a zq8. unless you still have the dealer sticker from your truck. my bad xtuckin20s...i dont mean to take over your thread.... but i went and typed all the codes and it just told me all the options...i didnt see anything telling me what type s10 it is....hummmm
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06-22-2007, 10:26 PM	#272
layinbody31 Center your wheels! Age: 22 Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,180 Location: Griffith, IN User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username looks good man hope to see a lot of progress this weekend
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06-22-2007, 11:35 PM	#273
xtucking22s I want sonoma grill! Age: 23 Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 7,679 Location: Phoenix, MD User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username Quote: Originally Posted by Slammed03 my bad xtuckin20s...i dont mean to take over your thread.... but i went and typed all the codes and it just told me all the options...i didnt see anything telling me what type s10 it is....hummmm its cool and its xtucking22s not 20s lol. not much big visible progress will come out of this weekend, the next BIG thing on the to do list is weld the notch in, and thats next weekend, until then its trying to relocate evap canister thing, clean the frame more, and some other miscelaneous(sp?) things
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06-23-2007, 02:51 AM	#274
xtucking22s I want sonoma grill! Age: 23 Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 7,679 Location: Phoenix, MD User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username Tonights progress, as always im a picture whore, sucks to be you if you got 56K..... notched the axle pads to allow the front link bar mounts to travel freely without hitting them.....so i used a hole saw first then used a cut off wheel to cut of the rest back to this later... I cut off the brake line bracket, gonna weld it back onto the notch later I dunno what this weight looking thing is on the axle housing, the damn axle housing doesnt spin so why is there this little weight thing? well anyways as my new saying goes "when in doubt, cut it out!" Spent a lot of time on this tonight, used the flap disc wheel on my grinder and began to realy clean the axle. I got tons more work to do on this lol and this is just a nice little close up of how the axle pads look once notched I talked to Dave at SD about the missing bolts, he said he would ship them out. I had asked if he could overnight them but he didnt specify if he did it overnight or regular shipping, I guess I'll find out tomorrow now wont I.
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06-23-2007, 03:48 AM	#275
Slammed03 Twizted Intentions Age: 21 Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,658 Location: Radcliff, Ky User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username
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06-23-2007, 04:15 AM	#276
snakenet Now bodydroped on 20s!! Age: 20 Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 779 Location: West Sacramento User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username lookin good bro!! check out my thread too, im doing the same thing, but i made my 5 link, i do kinda wish i just bought the sd one tho, sooo much work.
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06-23-2007, 11:46 AM	#277
Twin-10s UNDER CONSTRUCTION Age: 40 Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,847 Location: San Jose,CA User is: Online	Re: [Project] Living up to my username Quote: I dunno what this weight looking thing is on the axle housing, the damn axle housing doesnt spin so why is there this little weight thing? they are not weights, they were there to locate the rear sway bar. not need anymore for sure. looking good so far.
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06-23-2007, 12:04 PM	#278
cpolaris502 I wonder how it tastes? Age: 19 Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 12,517 Location: Rogers, MN User is: Online	Re: [Project] Living up to my username haha, i kind of thought they were weights too. they come off easily with a hammer and a chisel though.
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06-23-2007, 12:10 PM	#279
Chris0nllyn tu-tu guru Age: 21 Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 6,829 Location: Southern MD User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username lookin good dude!
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06-23-2007, 01:03 PM	#280
xtucking22s I want sonoma grill! Age: 23 Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 7,679 Location: Phoenix, MD User is: OffLine	Re: [Project] Living up to my username Quote: Originally Posted by snakenet lookin good bro!! check out my thread too, im doing the same thing, but i made my 5 link, i do kinda wish i just bought the sd one tho, sooo much work. allright cool man, im subscribed now. But ya this SD one i well worth the money, very well thought out Quote: Originally Posted by Twin-10s they are not weights, they were there to locate the rear sway bar. not need anymore for sure. looking good so far. oh ok, that makes a lot more sense now haha. And thanks everyone for the compliments as always....and now that I slept in till noon on a saturday(i love sleeping in!), it is now time to go out to the garage for the day, ill be back with updates and pictures later on today/tonight Last edited by xtucking22s : 06-23-2007 at 01:06 PM.
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