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The Lone Ranger – Sliders
I’ll start off by saying I’m not real happy with how these turned out. I wanted to go ahead and cut out the rockers to get a bit more clearance, but wound up leaving them lower to make it easier for the wife to get in and out. We’ll see how I like them after my first trip out, but for right now they’ll do. Since I’m cheap, I started out with some drop 2x5x1/4 wall tube that was a…
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The Lone Ranger – Belly Skid
In my XJ, I had actually spend some time making a ‘contoured’ transfer case/tranny skid. That resulted in decent ground clearance, but also meant that I always wound up high centered on one of the nooks of the skid. So this time, I gave up some clearance in order to have a flat belly. The net result is that I only lost about ¾” and I now have a stupidly stout (and heavy) skid. This thing pretty much threw weight…
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The Lone Ranger – Rear Bumper Air Tank
The rear bumper isn’t anything special, Just some ¼” wall 4×5 that Is capped off to be an air tank in the future (If I remember my measurements right, its about a 4 gallon tank size) . I took the center section to work and milled a hole for the receiver mount. After that was completed, I burned on the end caps and receiver: And burned on the truck: At this point I started playing with the side tubes some.…
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The Lone Ranger – Stinger
I finally got around to finishing up the front bumper with the addition of a stinger. This took a little longer than I thought it would to get it to look right, but I’m happy with the overall results. Bent up a hoop and played around with the placement of it: So much for being able to walk around the truck with the garage door closed (and it only fits in the garage one way now): It was a little…
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The Lone Ranger – Front bumper main structure
It was a bit of a road to get here, but I finally settled on a design for the front. Just to recap, I went through more than a few versions to figure out exactly what I wanted. Starting with V1 (Right) and V2 (Left): I then ditched those two ideas and started on the V3 with the main supports: Added the outer potions: Still wasn’t happy with that (seemed to big). So onto V4, I kept the same center…