there around craigslist is a pretty good place to start or when ya get back i can help ya out.....
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there around craigslist is a pretty good place to start or when ya get back i can help ya out.....
here are some more pics... you can see the mule on 44's now with the marsh racing wheels and i've started doing the rocker rust cut out repair and willbe making some pretty beefy rock sliders..... will take some more pics soon.....
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holy crap those pics are big lol sorry
is it really bad that i want to really put matt trax on this thing!!!!! hehehe
Bad? No.Quote:
Originally Posted by das beef
Should you post up the pictures? Yes.
I would LOVE a set of mattrax. If you find some cheap, sign me up too!
still saving up money for metal but i did get a flip video camera for x mas so i guess vids coming soon
Love your truck man! Keep it up! One day when we are both done. We have got to go wheeling together!!
- doc
das beef, what size are the rims (and backspacing) and width of the tires?
Great pics. They sure help tell the story of your conversion. Truck looks great.
All this excitment and your still going to sell it? Someone out there is going to get a pretty good deal on a nice truck.
Welcome home. Google m715's for sale, you should come up with a number of trucks to choose from. Depending on how much work you want to do. Finding one is part of the the fun of owning one.
the rims are 15" with a 4 1/2" back spacing
yeah the trucks bugging me i hate not having money to do anyting to it but i hate seeing it sit as well....ggrrrrrrrrrr like i said if it sells it sells if not i'll just keep building it
Don't give up, I'm still trucking along on mine
It took over a year to build mine. They don't happen fast, but they do happen if you just plug along a little at a time as time and money permit.
drove the mule around in the snow today doing 360's and tailslides was fun :D
Looking good. Like to see the finished product. That is if we ever get finished with these things.
A finished M715? Isn't that like the Loch Ness Monster or Sasquatch?Quote:
Originally Posted by militarypotts
What size tires are on the 715 when you first got it?
I didn't think you could use the phrase m715 and finished in the same sentence. As long as I keep coming back to this site, I'll never be finished. Although, it's nice to say your finished, meaning from now on whatever you do to your vehicle is because you want to, not because you have to. I'm not sure any of us ever want to be truly finished. We love our hobby to much.
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so uh anyone else have trouble running duel exhaust on the pass. side with a chevy 350.......1. the headers tubes are long thinking about cutting holes in the frame rails and putting round tube in the rails 2. if i don't how do you get past the transfer case? 3. should i just do a Y pipe and run it all down the driver side 4. or what the hell have you done to make this work lol :D
I have duels on mine with a big block, the headers I used are really close to the firewall and I just melted my girlfriends boot the other day. I have some pictures posted in my thread I think. If not I know they are on my photo bucket page that is linked in my build thread.
it sucks being poor........:(
hey man... ive been reading your build thread and just realized you live right over the mountain from me. your way further ahead of me build wise... but looking at the pics are you running the mrw custom rims? if so i take it that you are running stock axles also?
yeah i got the marsh racing wheels and also running the stock axles .... hav'nt had any problems yet :D
haha that is exactly what i wanted you to say!
might be a little late, but back to mattracks... I've always wanted a set since I first saw them. Living in Maine, we get plenty of snow and I've even seen a few homemade versions for snowmobile trail groomers. Over the past few years I have acquired more tools and skills and I decided that I'm going to try and build a set this summer. I'm going to build them for my lifted cherokee XJ and when I get the bugs worked out (and save some more cash!!), I want to fab up a set for the 715. Has anybody seen or heard of someone doing this on a 715, other than the una traks the military tested?
here is what I'm going to base my build off of, seems to be one of the more simple methods:
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some good reading:
http://www.planet4x4.net/forums/show...ghlight=tracks
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=854333
I have never had any experience with them on a vehicle, but I did ride a Honda ATV with a set of Matttracks about 4 or 5 years ago. It literally would go anywhere, but slowly. Those tracks didn't like any speed at all on dry terrain. The ATV felt very "jerky" and abrupt at anything over a slow crawl. This was on a mixture of gravel, dirt, and woods terrain. Maybe in snow they may be better though, or mud.
going to work on iron mule this weekend if anyone gets bored .. mostly replacing the front axle bearings and seals......
here an update pic
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dude if you build a set of tracks and it works or need a guinney pig let me know cuz i would really like to put trax's on my m715 :D
ha who thought it would be so hard to find a 2 1/2" socket for the axle bearing nut........ggrrrrrrrrrrrr
have you checked sears or a generic auto parts store like VIP? there are quite a few available online, around $20-$30 which is a lot for a single socket! I know sears has them, but expensive. I remember seeing somewhere (not sure if it was on here or not) but a guy took some pieces of flat stock, welded them together in a hexagon to make the socket and then welded a straight bar along the face to turn it. May not be the easiest but i thought it was pretty clever and certainly cheap... also, when you get into sizes that big, if it's a few sizes too big, it will still work ok but isn't great. Seems like 2 5/8 is a more common size for lock nuts?
i feel i should have gotten rockwells when i had the chance.........lol
ok ok so i got a little redneck and put a stack on my truck lol
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You need to check out http://diybeadlocks.com/. They make beadlocks with the punisher symbol that you have going.