Well I talked to my body guy and he said he will be ready for it in about 2 weeks. Just in case your not familiar with body guys that means 3 weeks in "real time" He wants to go orange. :-/ I think Im gonna go for it.

Next question. Has anyone cut and moved the floorboards back in a clean manor? Or would a big hammer be a better Idea?

Mike

Next question. Has anyone cut and moved the floorboards back in a clean manor? Or would a big hammer be a better Idea?

Mike

We used a grinder, a cutting disk, a torch, 3 different hammers, and a welder to get the job done.  I wouldn't call it 'clean' during the process, but it ended up being clean lookin in the end.  We painted, dynomatted, and undercoated it to look and perform better then stock.

Some picutures of the process can be found here http://www.whitepineclub.com/members/kd7hcg/pictures/33s/index.html

Good luck!
~Nate

Thanks, I was afraid it might look like that. I dig your rear bumper shock! I have been planning on doing the same thing... just seems like theres not enough time to do everything I want to do.

I moved the floors in mine. it only takes a weekend and you gain so much.  mine look like it came from the factory.  I had a friend(body man) put tin over the hole thing on the out side so it looked vary clean.  lata stu

O ya i forgot to say that why i can run 34's with only a 3 in body lift and not rub ANYWHERE in the front.  of corse i did do one other thing.  hehe  lata stu

Well I talked to my body guy and he said he will be ready for it in about 2 weeks. Just in case your not familiar with body guys that means 3 weeks in "real time" He wants to go orange. :-/ I think Im gonna go for it.

Next question. Has anyone cut and moved the floorboards back in a clean manor? Or would a big hammer be a better Idea?


Mike

Mike,
I cut and replaced my passenger side floorboard. I had never bent sheetmetal to fit before and made it look good. I double layred it to make it stronger. Then when I got to the drivers side I decided to see if all of that work made a big difference, and used a BFH and a 2x6. It came out looking smooth (except for the folds at the bottom) and I was pissed that I had spent all of that time on the other side. But now a few years later, the passenger side is still in good shape and the drivers side is rusting through and I need to replace it any way. I'll try to find a pic and e-mail it to you.
Zig

Well I picked out the color today. We looked at all the oranges and I picked out the brightest one I could find. It gets dropped off Dec 15th.  Im going to pound back the floorboards Sat night.  Ive got new fenders and will probabaly trim the Sat night as well.

 Chunk stopped by last night to BS. I was cleaning out all the dust in my Speedometer, thought it might work again if I did that.... It didnt. It has 99989 on it. Damn thing wont give me the pleasure of rolling 100000.  

He was walking around my rig while it was on the hoist. Each sentence began with "Did you know..."

Did you know your frame is bent
Did you know your floorboards are caved in
Did you know Your Exhaust is bent to crap and has a big hole

Blah Blah Blah
This goes on for a minute (or 2) and then he says "Screw the paint, you oughta junk this piece of crap!

I told him Bent does not = Broke.   Then I told him to stop being such a wus!

Ive got a lot to straighten and fix... Ohh well.  Hopefully it will feel like new in a few weeks.

Mike

THE BEST PART OF BEING IN THAT ROUGH SHAPE YOU DON'T MIND MAKING IT ROUGHER   WHEN YOU FIRST PUT IT TOGETHER, I ANYWAYS  ARE A LITTLE SQUEEMISH TO RUN IT HARD AND MEAN...BUT AFTER THAT FIRST DENT ETC.. ITS HAMMER DOWN  

• OH AND BY THE WAY SPEAKING OF CHUNK, OF WHICH I DONT KNOW, BUT READ SOME WHERE ON HERE THAT THEY LIKE THE WAY HE JUST AIMS UP AT THE OBSTACLE AT HAND AND HAMMERS THROUGH IT...  NOW THAT I'VE GOT MY MEDIA PLAYER WORKING I SAW WHAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT...HE WAS DOING SOME ROCK CRAWLING THEN AT THE TOP HE GIVES THE CROWD A LOOK OF WHAT WAS THE BIG DEAL... I WISH I WAS AT THAT STAGE ... I ALLWAYS APPEAR NERVOUS AT AN OBSTACLE..BUT ITS MOSTLY CAUSE ITS MY ONLY RIDE TO WORK...AND I'M NOT ALL THAT MECHANICALLY INCLINED SO THAT MEANS I MUST SPEND MORE MONEY IF I BREAK IT ! OH YEA I LOVE THE PAINT JOB OF HIS RIG AS WELL     HAPPY ZUKING !  MATTY D.
  

He killed that rig at Zukimelt . He now has a new rig that goes in for paint after mine. His new rig will have all the same components but on a 16V 97. Now he can really hammer down!

Mike

Mine has a candy cane look to it.  Its kinda funny.  Front fender is white... then door is red.... 2nd door white... back red.   Gotten a lot of curious eyes.  But cops recognize me no matter what when neighbors explain what i look like when i rev up the engine at 12 at night.  I was changing the fuel filter!

I was thinking of kinda a cool blue.. i was looking at the blue like steel blue.  Kinda pondering whether to worry about clearcoat.  I'm just going to scratch it some more in the woods anyway.  Who knows it all depends on price.

I was thinking about going with a flat finish on mine.  Good old Army Helicopter Green.  It's almost a black green.  Little different than a flat black but you wouldn't likely see anyone else with a rig that color either.

It's FS 34031 if you know how the federal standard colors work and want to take a look at it.

You would probabally like this one.





Mike

Hi, new member here. I just got done painting one of my Zuks! It used to be dark blue/primer gray/rust brown. I wanted a color that would turn heads, so I chose safety red. A buddy and I stripped and gutted it before painting. I'm in the process of reassembling it now. Safety red paint is so bright, it fools my camera into thinking it's orange. Only a few of the pics I've taken actually show it's true color. Here's one:



I love it! Can't wait to put it back together. Everything on the truck will be either red or black, except the chrome lug nuts. Whaddaya think?

Oh yeah, love the color, one of the things that attracted me to my Tracker was the fire engine red color, it drew my eye, stuck out on the dealership lot!!!

I'M THINKING OF GOING RED ALSO    THEN I'LL GIVE IT THE NAME SATAN'S CHILD  .............MATTY D.