Well, I found a good deal and decided that the dead sammy needed more qualified hands than mine...

I picked up Bioniconion's 93 Tracker as a new project for me and my son to build up and the sammy is going to my fabricator friend. His plans for the sammy include front and rear 4 links, coilovers, the Iron Duke engine swap, 33" Trxus radials and a full exo cage, all this just for starters! LOL!!!

My plans for the onion Tracker are a little tamer: First, get it running(has a fuel problem that needs straightened out). It's already got a 4" body lift, the floorboards are hammered back and the wheelwells are trimmed. I'll be doing a strut mount flip, removing the swaybar and at first adding some coil spacers(anyone know where I can pick up some 1.5" coil spacers cheap?). Then it will be getting some 15x8", 3.75" backspaced steel rims wearing 32" Swamper TSL Radials.  Depending on how much I end up having to spend to get it running, I'll only have less than $1200 in it by this point, counting the cost of the rig!!!

Once that's taken care of, then it's off to my friend's shop for some armor plating. Those plans eventually include front and rear bumpers, winch mount, skidplates, rocker guards and a rollcage, as well as a lower exo-cage/brush-guard/tubular fender flare setup... Materials are free as he has access to a huge scrap pile of steel! It would also be nice to eventually add a suspension lift, T-case gears and a locker, but that's much further down the road.

My son is really looking forward to helping me work on it in hopes that he will get to drive it some time... If I get it up and running quick enough it might make it's debut at GonZukin! I'm hoping to make it there anyways with at least my 90 tracker...

We need pics of the build!!!  

Cwkick

Does you son know how to drive stick?  
How old is he?  
Is this going to be "his" wheelin rig?(i hope he would want it to be)

I remeber my first wheelin rig(78' f-150) and i lerned almost everyting i know today from it.  I was about 12 or 13 at the time.  Getting your kids started early in wheelin and wrechin is such a good way to spend some father son time.  

hope all goes well!

stu

P.S. let him do alot of the work and let him drive alot more than you.   he'll thank to later.

sounds like fun!   you can get 1.5" coil spacers from sky's manufacturing (see link on main page) for cheap.

my son loves to wheel ,hes 12 now and can drive a stick, i tought him how to weld about 5 years agow , i used to take him to work with me on weekends ,give him a pile of scrap and a welder , great babysiter. hes learning how to use a torch now ,wich makes me nervous ! but hes getting better.i let him drive the track saterday but kinda got in trouble ,evedently you have to be 18 to drive at kansas rocks?? i understand ,but i dont

Don't worry about pics, I'll be sure to post plenty!

My son is 12, soon to be 13 and hasn't driven a stick yet that I know of. That's sort of his incentive for working on it with me, getting to learn to drive it and then we'll have 2 trail rigs!

Thanks, Chet! I'll go check those out!

This Tracker is going to be bigger and badder than my silver one... so for now I am not going to say who's Tracker it's going to be, if you know what I mean! LOL!

My son is 12, soon to be 13 and hasn't driven a stick yet that I know of

LOL!

My brother is 6 years younger than I am.  When I turned 17 (legal age in NJ at the time), and got my first car, I taught my 11 year old brother how to drive.  By the time he was 12,  I got my second car, which was a stick.  When we would go somewhere together, I always let him drive on the way home, just the last couple of miles.

When my brother turned 17, my dad wanted to "teach" him how to drive.  I had to laugh when I heard my dad bragging that his son mastered driving a stick in 5 minutes.  I didn't have the heart to tell him that my brother had been driving for 6 years!