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Glad to see you got some internet Scott. Best of luck on the rest of the trip.

You'd do well to do a search. This has been discussed many times. But if you want a reliable maker and an even better kit. Go with SJR and save yourself the many emails and posts asking where your kit is after you order it.

Here's one that's a little more pin pointed. . . http://www.wunderground.com/US/OR/Astoria/KAST.html

There should be video of it at WCSS6? on one of my vids Mick.

Scott said to clear coat it too. It looks good, but he said it would tarnish. Just one more thing that will make this car unique.

You're not kidding about what a pain it is if you don't. A good lube will make all the difference.

I think that's what he said.

One last thing. Walk them down a little at a time. 1/4 inch each or so, then the other, then back and so on.

When you do the adjustments, you'd do yourself a favor by lifting the wheels off the ground first.

Kinda blury, but you get the idea. Scott cast it out of aluminum. A little black paint and some time with the dremel. . . The original had some flaking of the chrome.

Indeed, and I agree. The photos can be priceless.

No biggie Brian. This thread came about when we went off topic in rkirky's thread. Light hearted ribbing is welcome. Discussion and contribution even more so.

Back to the original car in question. Digging around, I came across this one. It's got to be my favorite one of that car. Couple more.

More proof for your pudding.

Ok cool Will. I'll take your comments with a grain of salt now that you've explained yourself to me. I have to admit, I've been on trails I had no business on. The first time at Evans Creek, I was with a group of stock Soobs. We only got to do one trail, and it took us all day. But it made me want to get serious about wheeling Soobs. This was @96. This was about 93 or so. I got it stuck all of the time. It was a jeep that pulled my soob out. (but he charged us 10 bucks) He wasn't able to pull out the one next to me, we had to go find someone with a winch and snatch block. Here's one to give you a tickle. The guy was showing off at WCSS3 and wound up on his side. But it happens to the best of us.

It says H6 on the back. . . Who knows?

I own two Soobs currently. I've owned some 35-36 total. I didn't buy in a few months ago and pretend I know it all. I'm not here to be mean or scream and yell every time something upsets me. This thread is a discussion, in the NON-SOOB forum. Nobody's putting anybody down, except you. Keep in mind, you were warned not to take your car on that trail, but you did anyways. I put my back into it, I helped push your car when it was stuck. If I seemed not to be patient, it was cuz it was the 10 millionthed time I was in that situation. The novelty of pushing cars that had no business on the trail gets old. Didn't you go away mad?

And to make you feel better, one did roll on his side on the trail from catching the cliff with his front tire. It was the Soob that pulled him back on his wheels.

Well said. I'd love to drive my Toy as a daily driver. It's a blast to drive around town. I get lots of looks and thumbs up from people all the time. It has the loudest stereo (by far) out of my cars. But, I can't stand to put miles on the mudders. They cost a pretty penny, I like how they work off road. Will. I'm not sure why you're so upset. I really do mean to have a discussion about this, not poke fun or try to make you or I feel bad or good. I used the pic above cuz it's the only example I have from the only time I ever went wheeling with you. In the pic below, I can assure you that I didn't see any of them spitting chew out of their windows, and I really doubt that any of them bought their lifts at Les Schabb. I can say that that day of wheeling in the snow and ice at Evans Creek was hands down the best wheeling experience I've ever had. The biggest baddest Subaru I've ever got to be around was there that day. There was no way we could talk him into following Ken (after he followed me) thru this hole. (nor any of the other rigs there that day)

My buddy pretty much fabbed up everything on this Toy. Very few things were bought. It wheels awesome.

I moved the two missing posts to non-soob offroading. We really did hijack his thread, we can discuss it more there if you want. EZ

In his defense, he's just purchased an imp, lifted his car and is trying to put away $ to buy an ej adapter kit for his imp. And he has a wife he's gotta get a long with at the same time. :-p

And RKirky, you're gonna love having twice the power and 3 times the torque. Your project is looking great. Next time we do the loop, your car should keep up with the imps way better than your Brat eh?

I'd rather b.s. and wheel than be on the trail the whole time fixing my ride or trying to pull it off of a small stump. It was like that when I drove my Soobs off road, now it's like that when I drive my Toy. In 3 years of wheeling it, it's never (knock on wood) given me any crap. I'm free to wheel all day and not worry about it. I've said it before, I've proved what I can do in a Soob. I've been thru all of the trails around here, and I absulotely know what the Soobs can and cannot do. You won't find a better spotter in the Soob world than me without looking really hard. The Toy walks thru it all with no complaints and it's still sporting an open diff. As for money. It cost me 4500+ to build the blue 85 brat I had. Less than that for my toy, and that's including a 700 dollar bumper and 500 dollar winch. I have pulled out several Soobs with it though. 5 in one day even. You can't say that Toyota owners are the same as Jeep owners. It just isn't true. We found that out on the Rubicon trail in '03. The Jeep owners snarled at us when we blocked the trail, had no problems driving thru my shots while I filmed. The Toyota trail boss yelled at his group when one of them bumped one of our broken rigs. The Jeep guys laughed at us on the Pirate board, the Toyota guys vollunteered to carry our heavy gear if we ever made it down again to make it easier on us. Don't have the attitude that Soob owners are better than the rest, or you'll put yourself in the group of elitists you're trying to avoid. And keep in mind, there are some 8-10 former Soob offroaders on this here USMB that drive Toys now. We aren't any different, we don't have any new attitudes, we just don't wheel Soobs all the time any more.

If I don't make it down today, feel free to drop by after work. I'll poke thru it with you. MAAAAAAAAYyyybe, you put the blocks in backwards in the front. Did you beat the walls back to clear the blocks? That would limit movement as well as make noises.