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Back from Petersen's Ultimate Adventure!
- Thread starter Stephen
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the beast
1/2 ton status
az-k5 said:
Lexan?
More pics!! MORE PICS!!!!
I'm a little disappointed in the UAK10. I liked their concept, but I think they blew it when they when with the $4500 crate motor and $2K tranny. Cripes, I think I have less than $2k into my truck TOTAL! Including purchasing the truck!!!
DPI
1/2 ton status
Here are some more pics of the run. Looked like a LOT of fun and pain from all the sheet metal that got hammered!
http://hobartultimateadventure.blogspot.com/
Strange that they don't have shots of Stephen's rig..
http://hobartultimateadventure.blogspot.com/
Strange that they don't have shots of Stephen's rig..
DP_90K5 said:Strange that they don't have shots of Stephen's rig..
That is odd that he's not in any pics, no backgrounds - nothing!
Stephen, did you make somebody mad? 
DP, did you see the tire carrier on the Heep?
DPI
1/2 ton status
nvrenuf said:That is odd that he's not in any pics, no backgrounds - nothing!
DP, did you see the tire carrier on the Heep?
Copying is the greatest form of flattery.
Emmettology 101
3/4 ton status
Stephen - are you running those hummer rims with spacers? And are those GM or Ford hubs/spindles?
Esteban86K5
1/2 ton status
nvrenuf said:That is odd that he's not in any pics, no backgrounds - nothing!
You guys are crazy. There is a CLEAR and up close shot of Stephen's rig in this pic.
In case the pic doesn't work.
MTMike
1/2 ton status
BigCountryx
1/2 ton status
Oh ok, Stephen was leading the Pack and the Camera man couldn't catch up to him. I see 
Maybe now that he's back at the shop, he'll send me my xover That's a Joke, I know ya'll have been waiting on parts, I'm still building axles so I've got time 
Maybe now that he's back at the shop, he'll send me my xover
That's a Joke, I know ya'll have been waiting on parts, I'm still building axles so I've got time The funny thing about getting Pics in the Magizine is you usually have to do extraordainary things to get in the pics.
If I heard the stories correct there was good wheeling but nothing that is out of the ordinary for what we/Stephen normally does so he didn't make any big waves.
Also remember that Hobart is trying to point out everything they did to "help" eveyone eventhough Stephen had a Premeir power welder on both the tow rig and Wally for that trip they were the "Official" welder for the trip so they by default get all welding repairs.
If I heard the stories correct there was good wheeling but nothing that is out of the ordinary for what we/Stephen normally does so he didn't make any big waves.
Also remember that Hobart is trying to point out everything they did to "help" eveyone eventhough Stephen had a Premeir power welder on both the tow rig and Wally for that trip they were the "Official" welder for the trip so they by default get all welding repairs.
I kind of tried to make everything look as easy and smooth as possible rather than looking like I was fighting to get through everything. There were a couple of short displays of "the big bump". The new motor is good at bumping stuff. I can only hope that the video is like the TTC video where you see lots of rigs struggling and breaking and then wally walking right through, hopefully with relaxing music too.
The IROK/H2/staun combo worked great, they're pretty round going down the road, the tires were AWESOME offroad, not even a chance of legality issues and pretty cheap overall. The H2's are nice and cheap, they ran about $25 each but are pretty heavy (also strong) and are going to get ripped up by the rocks. I did have to put spacers on the front and already had spacers on the rear. The spacers were mostly to clear the control arms and the coilovers but they do help with the hub stickout problem. I'm running standard GM wheel hubs with the tera 35 spl. locking hubs and of course the blingin hubcaps. I know James Cramer is running the same wheel/tire without spacers and does well with it.
My wheel/tire/lock combo weighs in at 134# each, the old cut and worn TSL's on TR alum beadlocks were about 124#
Windshield is coated lexan from roadless gear in montana. The coating makes it work well, scratching doesn't seem to be a problem. We cut it with a jigsaw, smoothed the edges with a flapper wheel and bent it on our press brake. Overall it was pretty easy to work with and turned out really nice. It's 1/4" thick. I have a couple of hot rod style wipers to mount right to the glass but rain really wasn't too bad as long as it was raining hard. After it let up the water turned into little drops and was pretty distracting so I wiped it off.
I did drive it on all the road portions we were present for, we missed the road trip from missouri to arkansas since we were on the way from here that day.
Wally does OK on the highway, I missed my steering box some but have some ideas on ways to tune the steering in a little better. It was find up to 70 or so, I had to be 100% focused on driving but it wasn't a death trip.
The drivetrain was great on the road, the 504 starts pulling from the time you twist the key so running low rpm's in overdrive worked well. The one section I checked milage on showed a little under 9 mpg which is all I would ask for, the big bronco with us was running about 5 mpg, ouch!
Legality? I never got stopped so it was a success. I ran a set of mudflaps on a bar in the receiver hitch and never had a problem. I had a couple of close looks by some local cops in prairie grove AR but they never even stopped to chat. I do have most of the bases covered but if a cop had a grudge I'd still be in trouble so I'm going to limit the highway time and mind my manners while I'm there. I just want to be able to do loop trails without major hassles.
I never did get to use the premier welder, we had one trail breakage incident and another rig had a zena welder close by so they spent about an hour trying to get a panhard mount welded up with it. I think it would have been faster to just run wally back down there and get it done. The Hobart guys did run some test welds with the premier one morning and seemed to like it and I used it to charge the battery on Clampy when the alternator died. It's nice to charge with 15 volts, batteries top up quick that way. Hopefully premier gets on board next year as a sponsor for the on board welder.
I'd better run, got some work to do, like waiting on pitman arms....
The IROK/H2/staun combo worked great, they're pretty round going down the road, the tires were AWESOME offroad, not even a chance of legality issues and pretty cheap overall. The H2's are nice and cheap, they ran about $25 each but are pretty heavy (also strong) and are going to get ripped up by the rocks. I did have to put spacers on the front and already had spacers on the rear. The spacers were mostly to clear the control arms and the coilovers but they do help with the hub stickout problem. I'm running standard GM wheel hubs with the tera 35 spl. locking hubs and of course the blingin hubcaps. I know James Cramer is running the same wheel/tire without spacers and does well with it.
My wheel/tire/lock combo weighs in at 134# each, the old cut and worn TSL's on TR alum beadlocks were about 124#
Windshield is coated lexan from roadless gear in montana. The coating makes it work well, scratching doesn't seem to be a problem. We cut it with a jigsaw, smoothed the edges with a flapper wheel and bent it on our press brake. Overall it was pretty easy to work with and turned out really nice. It's 1/4" thick. I have a couple of hot rod style wipers to mount right to the glass but rain really wasn't too bad as long as it was raining hard. After it let up the water turned into little drops and was pretty distracting so I wiped it off.
I did drive it on all the road portions we were present for, we missed the road trip from missouri to arkansas since we were on the way from here that day.
Wally does OK on the highway, I missed my steering box some but have some ideas on ways to tune the steering in a little better. It was find up to 70 or so, I had to be 100% focused on driving but it wasn't a death trip.
The drivetrain was great on the road, the 504 starts pulling from the time you twist the key so running low rpm's in overdrive worked well. The one section I checked milage on showed a little under 9 mpg which is all I would ask for, the big bronco with us was running about 5 mpg, ouch!
Legality? I never got stopped so it was a success. I ran a set of mudflaps on a bar in the receiver hitch and never had a problem. I had a couple of close looks by some local cops in prairie grove AR but they never even stopped to chat. I do have most of the bases covered but if a cop had a grudge I'd still be in trouble so I'm going to limit the highway time and mind my manners while I'm there. I just want to be able to do loop trails without major hassles.
I never did get to use the premier welder, we had one trail breakage incident and another rig had a zena welder close by so they spent about an hour trying to get a panhard mount welded up with it. I think it would have been faster to just run wally back down there and get it done. The Hobart guys did run some test welds with the premier one morning and seemed to like it and I used it to charge the battery on Clampy when the alternator died. It's nice to charge with 15 volts, batteries top up quick that way. Hopefully premier gets on board next year as a sponsor for the on board welder.
I'd better run, got some work to do, like waiting on pitman arms....
Very Nice!!! 
Who did the bodywork??? Glass???
Who did the bodywork??? Glass???
Body is all factory steel, in fact, the driver door is the factory '82 door from this truck. So is the hood. They're cut up and welded together into one monopanel for each side. This time the paint is cheap truevalue enamel so it's easier to fix.
That's my Dad's head in the hobart busted ring gear pic on their page.
That's my Dad's head in the hobart busted ring gear pic on their page.
yeah, them 1-piece skins are kick azz. 
very nice work.
Surprised to hear how light the tire/wheel combo was. Those are 42" iroks right? I weight my 39.5 TSLs on Eaton HD steel rims when I got them and it was 123# each. I thought those hummer rims + stauns would be heavier than they seem to be...
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very nice work.Surprised to hear how light the tire/wheel combo was. Those are 42" iroks right? I weight my 39.5 TSLs on Eaton HD steel rims when I got them and it was 123# each. I thought those hummer rims + stauns would be heavier than they seem to be...
j
Keep in mind those are H2 wheels, non beadlock cast alum. jobbies, not the heavier heck H1 beadlocks. I was expecting 10-15# less than they are but it's still not bad for a beadlocked 42 on a HD wheel.
The one hobart site pic with wally in the background is where they were welding up the track bar mount on the yellow jeep at the base of the ledge that only wally got up. That was one of the "big bumps".
The one hobart site pic with wally in the background is where they were welding up the track bar mount on the yellow jeep at the base of the ledge that only wally got up. That was one of the "big bumps".
BOWTIE
1/2 ton status
stephen i got to hand it to you. just when i thought wally was on top of the truggy list you went up and over yourself. top notch stuff.
dammit you got me thinking on a rebuild.
dammit you got me thinking on a rebuild.
OffRoad
1/2 ton status
was the clampy toyota truck there?
Emmettology 101
3/4 ton status
What size spacers are you running in the front? 2"? I like the width!
And Wally looks good!
And Wally looks good!
Stephen said:
I have a couple of the UK10 that I'll have to post up later, I'm out of time for now.
That looks awesome! Very slick, clean lines, almost more like a racer of some sort. Monopanel! ingenious.
