Month: September 2010

The   Click Here To Visit     with Bill Johnston Tweaking the Grip The Stalker project started with 31″ tires, so we lowered the gear ratio in the differentials to make up for any loss in power that the larger tires caused. The freshly rebuilt motor took full advantage of the gearing as it […]

with Bill Johnston Truly a Trail Slayer When Hartie Spence picked up the phone that day, I don’t think he really knew what as in store for him. He was interested in getting a suspension to work and he ended up getting the chance to take home a work of art… When Hartie told me […]

    With: Terrina Harris Pictures: Sonya Griffin iZook Guru’s Ultimate Project Build Off – Truck One This month was to be the start of the tear down with the installation of the Trail Tough YJ lift kit.. We are going to start the tear down, just not in the order we thought! Many of […]

With: Terrina Harris iZook Guru’s Ultimate Project Build Off – Truck One March Update – Dash To The Finish!   OMG only about 8 weeks before the largest gathering of Zooks in the US and the truck is not even close to being complete. Will we be ready for ZookiMelt 06? Had a visitor the […]

With: Terrina Harris iZook Guru’s Ultimate Project Build Off – Truck One March Update – Panic In The Garage! This month it is Larry’s turn to get to work. As you know we are installing the Petroworks dash and VDO gauges. To top that off he decided to add a home built fuel injection system. […]

With: Larry and Terrina Harris iZook Guru’s Ultimate Project Build Off – Truck One   Larry and I have come to the conclusion that if it can go wrong it will. We tried to complete in 6 months what should have been a 1 year project. Seems that everything involved in this build has had […]

with Bob Norman, assisted by Alex Maslo Part 3… ZookiMelt or Bust!  So, where did we leave off???   I picked up the “new” body from Rod’s Used Samurai Parts in Iowa. The body cutting and preparation for paint are taking a lot longer than originally anticipated. I expected to chop a little here, trim a […]

With: 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 […]

With: 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 […]

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 […]