The_Magicians_Eye

The stock gears in our trucks are an odd ball size. When doing a SAS your goal is to get those gears as close as you can. Some are comfortable having them off a little but I'm not one of those people. Most people will be moving up in tire size when doing a SAS so regearing is really a big part of doing a SAS money wise and mechanically. Then start factoring the cost of lockers and setting up the gears, possibly changing the rear axle for something that has cheaper parts, having up change the carriers in a dana 44 because the stock ones won't hold the dump truck gears we run lol. I'm going through this process right now. I decided my best plan of attack was to make a list of every single part I need to buy. Find out what parts need to be new and what ones can be used. Take that list and start adding up the cost and do everything in my power after being price shocked to bring that cost down. There are certain things you can cut corners on and "upgrade" as time permits but gears I don't believe is one of them. Same goes for lockers. If you just want a mall crawler there are many things you can cut corners on but if you want to wheel it at all lockers are a big deal. If you rarely wheel I'd look at open diffs to bring the cost down, if you wheel it and use it on the road a selectable lockers is a must have, If you are using it strictly off road mechanical lockers or spools are a cheaper option. I'm not going to argue with anyone that likes their mechanical lockers on the road but those things have a tendency to trash tires and break parts if you don't drive carefully. Plus they sounds like something is broken when you turn. You might not care because you know what it is but people around you will think you rig is broken if they don't know any better. Nothing like throwing tons of money at something just for people to think it's a piece of crap lol. On top of that the money you think you're saving going that route will be quickly lost when you're buying new tires all the dam time. As far as what your post was actually about. I'm sure someone has chimed in already but I hope the information I posted above helps with your plans for a SAS.

PS I'll be documenting every step of this SAS on my youtube channel. If you have not subscribed yet you should. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0lPV3rqJYAn9k0lOKukk0A

Yes I got everything including the radius arm frame mounts. The only think I didn't get was the spring mounts on the frame. He was going to give them to me but I didn't want them. The springs are most likely useless but they did come with it. All for $200. All the steering will be replaced and like I said the knuckles out will be replaced. I was going to run high steer but I think I've changed my mind. Right now it looks like I'll just be flipping the steering to the top side of the knuckles to give it a couple extra inches of clearance without all the cost of high steer.

It's home and on the shop floor. Now time to find some affordable outers. In the mean time I'll be cleaning this up and getting it ready for the new parts. I'll also be working on wristing the passenger side radius arm.

Picking this up tomorrow! D44 out of an early Bronco. Looks like I'll be running Bronco radius arms. If I don't like them I'll upgrade to a 3 link later on down the road. I'll be wristing one of the arms to allow for more flex. I need some Chevy 6 lug D44 flat top knuckles, brakes, and spindles as soon as I can muster up the money to pay for them. lol

How much longer is this going to make the whole transmission transfer case combo? These things are already massive.

PM me when you do so I can update my location please.

Still not working. Again the map shows and old member locations show but I can't add my new location. Has anyone looked into this? I love this feature of NPORA and want to add my new location to it.

I'll just say this and hopefully this will be the last time I post about this lol. The amount of Nissan truck/SUV owners out there buying after market parts targeted toward the off road industry is really small in the grand scheme of things. I would think a company relying on that market would do their best to keep a good working relationship with every potential customer out there. I could be wrong and the market might be much bigger than I think but I doubt it. Ether way driving people away over dumb stuff is a bad idea no matter how strong the market is.

I don't have a problem with rules. Ask the people that run this forum. I totally understand and have no issues with rules even if I don't agree with them. It's their website and their rules take it or leave it. With that being said there are no "rules" explaining that my truck is not eligible for truck of the month voting because my company name is on my truck. So I uploaded them just like anyone else would have. My company has nothing to do with their business or their products. If it was branded with a competitor sticker I won't have even done that. That's not cool. If it was a rule that was explained to me even if it was a new rule explained to me based on seeing my new photos, I'd get it. The problem is they say anything. They just deleted the photos. If it wasn't for me asking the person who runs the facebook page I still wouldn't have any idea what the heck the problem is. And yes those are two different people. So whoever is deleting the pictures still doesn't feel the need to explain anything even after I ask why they were deleted on the forum. Now with that being said I uploaded some photos of my truck (like I said) that didn't have any logos on the truck. I did it to see if maybe they just had a problem with the logos and those were deleted too. Again with no explanation. So now I'm scratching my head as to what was wrong with those photos. I don't see how that's blowing anything out of proportion. I'm just telling people what's going on because it just seems ******. It's not like I'm over on their forum causing problems or anything. I post less on that forum than I do here. When I do post it's just about updates to my truck and that's it. That's it and I go away. I've never had a bad word to say about them. There simply is no reason for them to act that way toward me. Ok they don't like the vinyl logos. I get it. But why delete all the photos I post? What's that about? If I'm not welcome on the website say something to me. Don't just delete the photos I post. Anyway man I wasn't going to post anymore about this but your post came across like you think I'm trying to be a jerk to them. I just don't get what their problem is and it bugged me enough where I felt to need to share my experience. It's really not a big issue at all. It's just a review. If you're a company and you're going to act unprofessional toward me for some unknown reason I'm going to share that experience with others. No different than I'd expect any of my customers to do if I was the one treating them like that. It's just strange and annoying because there is no explanation for their actions. Believe me and the admins on the forum can back me up on this. I'm not trying to cause problems on anyone's website. If I think something might be an issue I ask before I post.

Just a quick follow up. Whoever runs their facebook page tried to clear it up. This is what they said. I guess that means anyone with any brand stickers on their trucks can't post photos on their website... I guess that's why they deleted the photos I uploaded yesterday before it had any logos on it? I've heard stories about these guys but this is just retarded. Off all the things they could do to run off a customer this is what they choose?.... crazy...

It is what it is. But I felt the need to post the situation for those that might not fully understand how these guys treat customers. It would be one thing if I was blatantly trying to promote RR website but I clearly wasn't and you can't even see the sticker or the motor mount I bought from them. So my only other guess is that they don't like that my logo's are on the truck. And Monstaliner... If that's the case f-them. Really, that's just dumb. I built that damn thing I can put my name on it lol. To be honest with you. If they would have just told me they don't allow branded up trucks to enter TOTM voting nor do they want them on your forum. I'd have respected the request and moved on. But to just delete my stuff and not give an explanation to what I did wrong is unprofessional. Anyway I'm done complaining. I'll just stop buying crap from them.

I could totally understand if you could see that sticker but you can't. So ether they are pissed just because they know it's on my truck or because they have some issue with the other stickers.

So those guy pissed me off today. It's been building but today was the deal breaker. I've been trying to submit new photos of my truck for their truck of the month voting since I got the vinyl put on my ride. They keep deleting them though. When I asked why on the forum they deleted my post there too. No PM or nothing explaining why. So I ask them on FB why it keep happening and they respond with the following: Am I missing something here? How does my company or any of the stickers I have on my truck compete with 4x4parts? The only gripe they might have is the tiny RR sticker I have on the lower corner of my rear side windows. You can't even see it well enough to make it out. Anyway the only reason I'm posting this here is because many of you know about this company an I just want to share with you my experience just trying to be an active member on their dead website. I've been a member over there since 2010 and I'm a passed customer. I currently have their parts on my truck and was going to upgrade my brakes with their parts soon. Not anymore! I've never had a problem over there until now. I don't get it... Here is the picture they keep deleting and have some sort of problem with. You've all seen it before. If you guys see something I don't please point it out.

Are you changing you address or just looking at it? I can see it just fine but can't change my address. It let me delete the old one but not add the new one.

So I tried to update my location on the Member Map and it's not communicating with Google Maps when I type in the address. Fix it please lol. It might just need an update for the plugin.

Thanks since I'll most likely loose August due to Mr SAS trying to make me look bad lmao. I'll be posting an updated pic though. My truck looks a little different already

Getting the Pathfinder ready for the Monstaliner booth at Mettowee Off Road Extreme Park this weekend.

Looks great! Beautiful work!

As requested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfGMOKZYIWU

I don't bow down to anyone lol. He's got to earn it the hard way. I'm not scared of his Exo cage, massive tires, SAS, or the Rugged Rocks 4 link in the back. That rock isn't nearly as big as it looks in the picture and I'm pretty sure his truck is broken and normally doesn't flex that much... let's see who believes that @!*% lmao

Since you're taking forever lol, I want to change my pic just in case I have a chance to beat Heloflyboy

2 gallon kit for the black and I used every drop and I did my bumpers and rock sliders too. That gave me two coats. 1 gallon kit for the white but I didn't use it all. One quart for the red and I didn't use it all. Once you mix it you need to use it. Whatever you don't use is wasted. If you expect to waste some it might be a good idea to find a small project to use the wasted material on and have it ready to go just in case you have extra. One quart of chassis saver but I ran out. Should have used two quarts for proper coverage.

God Damn! Even the Manual trans in these is massive.

I think I might try one of those 30" or 40" ones on ebay or Amazon. They can't be any worse than what I had on my old rack lol.