Some progress woo hoo! I'm slow at builds I should have more pictures tomorrow or Friday after I finish triangulating the lower arms. I can't seem to find pics of the jig I made to triangulate them but if I can find them I'll post that too.

I used the same bar as before to bend the 2x1/4" bar into the shape I wanted. Here you can see it started. I still need to shape the ends where it mounts to the frame and plate it. I'm going to plate just the top for now and move onto the upper arms and come back to it later to finish smoothing it out after everything on the front end has been fabricated.

now back to working on yota scene mobile

Got some more pics from doing the other side

Made template to box it in. Control arm is so rusty lol


This is the tool I made that I used to triangulate the lower arms. It is a combination of a 9/16" bolt, bushing sleeve, extra bolt from the old locator arm(not sure what it's called). I had to cut it apart and weld it back together to do the other side so that why it looks rough.


Here are the pieces I bent for the other side with my contraption. They came out good but I would love a press break.


Another view


Another view


Assembled and ready to weld on. I used bent rods to help keep everything lined up before plating.

Im planning on rounding the ends but will do that last

nice work baha! are you triangulating to the back?is there any advantage of triangulating them other than the stock ones binding on massive wheels?my truck is still stock,seems to do fine.

Thanks man, yeah I'm triangulating to the back. I still haven't found a rack and pinion to replace the factory steering know of any short oneS? lol

I'm not sure how much play was there with out them being triangulated, I just wanted to use something to replace that locator bar( still not sure what it's called lol) to keep the front end stiff.

What size tire are you running? I have to double check but I'm pretty sure I set it up so I could run a tire through the fender even though I won't, just wondering how big I can go with out having to modify the fenders. I love your wheels cable.

thanks bro,I think there called strut rods,lol.im on 18's with a 35 series falken,stock strut rods,all stock suspension with belltech drop spindles+z'd about 1in.,but I also still got about 1/2 inch of rocker to crush via the interstate when I get it going again,lol

here's an old pic


thanks bro I love these wheels to!!!I was at the right place at the right time,my buddy hooked me up,otherwise I could never have afforded them,they came off an old minitruckin' feature truck called "sole survivor-bad ass truck btw! how come you want to go to rack and pinion? with my truck bodied 3.5,but rockers still holding me up a 1/2in. on the 18's with a 35 series I'm pushing up the fender lip about a 1/4inch,how much b/d you gonna do?

Do you have any pictures of that truck? I want to see it!

I'm more of a performance guy then dragging, the rack and pinion will take up less room, and it should stiffen up the steering. Plus I love the look of a polished or painted rack lol

Your truck should be body dropped more than mine. Johnny cut it all when he started it so I'm not sure about the exact measurement. I'm just going to cut it all back out and make the body even with the frame underneath after I roll the pinch weld on the rocker. It is probably like 3" or close.

I'll probably run the same size combo you're running I think it looks perfect for these trucks. I like my wheels to look proportional lol

Welp I'm all done until next week. I should be able to make the frame mounts next week, and I'll finally have the lower arms fabbed up.

Anyone have a 5spd transmission around Atlanta, GA for sale?

Anyway here are some pics I got the other side done, and tack welded the top plates to both arms.

sweet work bro,here's that truck when my buddy nate dogg owned it:






















here's the link to the feature on it
http://www.minitruckinweb.com/features/ ... index.html

Thanks man that's a killer toy!

Today's Update:

I put the frame back on the floor so I could modify the upper control arms and check to make sure they didn't bind while laid out. I still have to make the frame mounts for the triangulated lower control arms then that will be all fabbed up.

I decided to put the wheel on and take some pics from the angle it should be seen.

Baha, does the bag up front fully compress or is that not the final overall tire size? To me it looks like your going to be riding on lots of pressure up front from the way the bag looks. Just making sure now, before you get much further.

We'll there's a couple things keeping it from fully compressing the upper control arm isn't on, and I'm going to be running a bigger tire like you said.

Don't worry man I've done my homework lol

nice work baha!glad to see your making some headway on that thing!that rear square notch crossmember looks great,how'd you get that thing off your table?the cherrypicker?lol.my bare frame hung on one for about a week once,steering box leaked all over the floor,lol