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BENDER stays in hibernation with me

Bought a pair of these :D Going to work on the tube doors to accommodate the new mirrors. Once I get my original doors switched from electric to manual, I'll do the same on them. I can't deal with my current tube door's little motorcycle mirrors and the factory ones are only marginal at best. My Dad's truck has these. OHHH how nice are they! :waytogo:

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Did you see the thread on here where the guy linked to a off site thread with a install of those?
 
I think I saw a truck with them but don't remember any of it other than one picture.

However, that's not the inspiration. I'm learning as things go that I can do anything I want. And what I want, is better mirrors. So, I'm putting these on and that's it. :D
 
Back when my truck was stock height, the factory mirrors seemed to work okay as long as I stuck a convex mirror in the corner. Now I can't see too much out of them. If there's a Corvette in the lane beside me, I can't see it at all.
 
andyblack said:
Back when my truck was stock height, the factory mirrors seemed to work okay as long as I stuck a convex mirror in the corner. Now I can't see too much out of them. If there's a Corvette in the lane beside me, I can't see it at all.
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yep, I went to the parts store and bought a convex piece of glass they sell that you glue over the original. Helped a lot for the passenger side. Have been thinking of doing it for the driver side too:waytogo:
 
Man that's the only way to go. I don't see how anyone can drive on multi-lane roads without a convex mirror on both side mirrors. Why don't all vehicles come with them to start with?
 
yep, if I didn't like driving the blazer so much this stuff wouldn't bother me, but cruising around LA freeways, traffic 5 lanes across, I gotta see better than I currently do.
 
Frist, never mind my cheater strap :D

I've got all the down travel I could want in the front. Only problem, I'm short on up travel. The 14" shocks need about 1.5" more up travel to be safe. I'm currently bottomed out :( I'll set up my bumpstops after some new mounts are made.

My rear is just the opposite. :doah:The 12" travel shocks are extended all the way here. My passenger side (though the factory mount has more angle than the driver side IIRC) still has ~2.5" before full compression. I'm thinking of extending the upper mounts and adding 14" travel shocks out back as well. OR PLAN B, move the axle side mounts closer to the top of the axle and hope that's enough :dunno:

:D I've been eying this post for a while now :) It's my place of work and I finally made it my bitch! :woot: I had probably a dozen production workers from the parking lot checking it out. :haha:









 
Awesome. :thumb:

Why don't you put the 12" shocks from the rear in the front and move the 14" shocks from the front to the rear? Or is that possible?
 
It's something I've been thinking about but I think the rear will bottom out. The 14" shock body is longer, so I'll lose some up travel.

I wish I had my tape measure. The front shock shaft looked close to 10" extended. Raise the top mounts up 1.5" and that still gives me another 2.5" of down travel. Whether I can actually use it I dunno, just as long as the shocks aren't the limiting factor.
 
Here is my bent TRE, passenger side. I mentioned it earlier. Looks worse in person but you can clearly see the bend. Was worried about that run the offset, only way the huge tierod and huge diff cover behave. Might end up with high steer down the road if this becomes a problem. :(

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Nice chop! At first look, i was like WTF? That would be some funny chit though, the look on the climbers faces would be priceless. Kind of reminds me of hunting, hiking your butt off to get to a remote spot. Only to find a rig parked on top.
 
Working on a video but my computer can't seem to play footage smoothly. Time for a new computer so I can edit all this stuff I've been sitting on. Here are a couple teaser screen shots from last Sunday..... hopefully a treat for the few folks that stop in here :thumb:












 
Babaganoosh said:
Those are pretty sweet pics how are you mounting the camera? Hows it holding up?
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a pipe I had laying around, screwed to the bottom of the bumper, then used the camera's handle bar mount. The picture of the truck climbing (after the snow one) has the pipe PSed out.

Camera is a Pyle Hi Speed HD 1080p (wannabee GoPro for $70) I bought two of them, with one more on the way. I look forward to having SEVERAL positions available for mounting :D
 
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