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With: Terrina Harris It is official! The tear down has started. We have the Samurai in the garage and that was no small task in itself. We had to make room for the truck by getting rid of all the old parts. All of the parts we collected over the years were sold on […]
Continue ReadingKickin’ Vitara! Southern Style… Waaay Southern! Edited by Bill Johnston Marcos Levy, a member of Surge Team Suzuki, has once again finished the “RALLY DOS SERTES” running a Suzuki. Not only is this the largest cross country rally in the Americas, but it is also the largest off-road event in the Latin America. Congratulations! Marcos […]
Continue ReadingWith: Terrina Harris Back to work! That is what Larry keeps telling me. I guess if we are to ever finish this project I must. We took December off for the holidays to spend time with the children and grandchildren. Just a short recap, we are still taking things off the truck. I never knew […]
Continue ReadingWith: Terrina Harris iZook Guru’s Ultimate Project Build Off – Truck One June Update – OMG It Is Not Going To Be Done! We are starting to get a bit worried, time is flying by! The truck is still sitting out in the garage and it does not even have the tires on yet. The […]
Continue ReadingWith: Terrina Harris iZook Guru’s Ultimate Project Build Off – Truck One I have some big plans for the Samurai! I am tired of Larry blowing up the rear end all the time so the first order of business was to call Brent at Trail Tough and order the Hybrid Rear Axle. This is […]
Continue Readingwith Bill Johnston A Super Samurai! Darryl Jones and Brian Cole are hard core 4×4 enthusiasts who wanted to build something that no one else had. They also wanted something that would represent the high quality of their shop while climbing just about anything put in front of it! They decided on the Samurai […]
Continue Readingwith Jim Bova Project #2 Returns! Project #2 is back. It really never went away just sort of took a little break. I spent the better part of the last year or so scouring the countryside for parts to do a SPOA on her. It will have a welded rear put in as […]
Continue ReadingPage two. Since these photographs were taken I have added Calmini’s steering stabilizer/truss and idler arm bracket. I upgraded all the fasteners and performed minor grinding to fit the idler arm bracket to the later Sidekick/Tracker/X-90 platform. Here’s what I did in the back: Cut the springs shorter, closed the last coil by […]
Continue Readingwith Jim Bova Project #2 Returns! Front Spring Over With Rear Springs With the rear SPOA done on #2 it was time to move on to the front. There is a little more work involved in the front with the steering. There are a few ways to address the steering issue, cross over steering , […]
Continue ReadingA case study in tinkering run amok… by TD (Troy) Graham Part 3: Fun with Mock-ups. Misery loves company: At this point, a little introduction is in order… where “me” becomes “we”; the other half of “we” being my buddy Tom Wilhelm. He is the President of General Crafts in Goshen, Indiana, […]
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