Have you guys/gals seen this?

[JLS]

Custom built Crew Cab. I think it is awesome!

There is a 2 page build up artical and I thought it was a great read. There is some great ideas there too. Also check out the chuck wagon.
Check it out! www.tawayama.com/gear/crewcab/2405.jpg

 

[marc olivares]

it belongs to Mike Slade, currently residing in SLC area

 

[kellymoe]

Very well thought out and built vehicle. Slade knows his stuff.

 

[Jamooche]

Yeah, sweet truck. According to BWOverland,it is for sale:

http://www.bwoverland.com/

http://www.bwoverland.com/vehicles_content.php?vehicleid=5

What a bargain!

Jamil

 

[Ron]

"Slade knows his stuff"

thanks to Cooper

 

[Michael Slade]

"Slade knows his stuff"

thanks to Cooper

Ron,

Sounds like you have a case of sour grapes. Yeah, I learned a LOT from Cooper, but definitely not everything I know. To assume so is very naieve and ignorant. Ask him how many hours I've spent on my junk. He'll tell you. Ask my wife how much time I've spent working on those things. She'd love to tell you too I'm sure.

Thanks for the compliments guys.

Marc, we'll have to get together and do some wheeling sometime soon. I'm itching to get out!

Back to lurk mode...

 

[LMRW]

"lurk mode" lol i hear that, nice set up, but i dig the 110 trailer to compliment. like icing on the cake ! custom
SCUBA activated, submersing down to lurk and remain incognitio

 

[marc olivares]

slade,

Bill said you were back in town, welcome
love to get out any time, i'm always up for a quick trip to 5 mile/constrictor, or even AF for that matter.

you gonna check out the UROC event this weekend at the raceway?

 

[Michael Slade]

Yeah.....I'm not so much into the rockcrawling comps anymore. I think the technology is cool, but the acutal events leave me with a sour taste in my mouth.

This is the cool thing about getting to know the SLC locals. I haven't really done a lot of wheeling in N. Utah...most of my experience is the west desert and down south. Up here (other than my stomping grounds in Cache Valley), is still pretty new. I do like the drive up Butterfield Canyon to see Kenecott. A very neat trip if you haven't done it.

Anyway, yeah, e-mail me anytime you get the itch to get out.

Later!

 

[marc olivares]

... I do like the drive up Butterfield Canyon to see Kenecott. A very neat trip if you haven't done it...

just on my mountain bike

 

[Ron]

Mike,

No sour grapes. I should have said "thanks to cooper (POR flipoff guy)" Just to say that cooper taught you a lot, while it is your truck and I know you did a lot of the work (and based on your posts went from a near newbie to someone who knows a thing or two working on it) cooper is the one reponsible for the frame, drivetrain etc.

Ron

 

[Michael Slade]

just on my mountain bike

Woah.

Back in High School (I graduated in '87...so you'll have an idea of the technology I was familiar with), I thought I was pretty tough. Rode my mtn. bike everywhere. Thought I was in pretty good shape, so I entered a race in Vernal. That race kicked my butt so badly that I pretty much gave up mountain biking for good. Decided then and there that there were easier ways to get me and my gear where I wanted to go.

I'd be too much of a wuss to hang out with you Marc...you riding your bike to the top of Butterfield Cnyn. pretty much proves that.

 

[Michael Slade]

Mike,

No sour grapes. I should have said "thanks to cooper (POR flipoff guy)" Just to say that cooper taught you a lot, while it is your truck and I know you did a lot of the work (and based on your posts went from a near newbie to someone who knows a thing or two working on it) cooper is the one reponsible for the frame, drivetrain etc.

Ron

Oh yeah, you're completely correct. I'm always quick to point out that without his fabrication skills none of my big projects would have gotten done as well as they did.

Before I started hanging out with Cooper, pretty much the biggest job I'd ever done was changing the wheel bearings on my '66 88-inch. I thought that was a big accomplishment, and considering that not too long before that I actually didn't know how important motor oil was to keep in your engine (blew up a VW bus motor as a result...but I digress...).

Cooper taught me to think outside the box when designing a vehicle. The 80-inch was pretty much a 3-year apprenticeship on vehicle assembly and fabrication. From there I was pretty much on my own as far as designing and coming up with the concept of the CrewCab and the ChuckWagon. The LWB's were also an extention of what I learned from the 80-inch.

I was lucky I found someone that would not only work on my trucks and do custom fabrication on them, but also would answer my questions and teach me some things from time to time.

I'm good with wiring, nuts and bolts, suspension, etc...but the finer things like engine assembly I'm just now getting the hang of (gotta get that rebuilt 4.2l into the LWB before too long...but I digress again)...which shows that I know just enough to be dangerous. Taking apart a transmission is out of my league too, but I can remove and install one now thanks to the school of hard knocks.

Timm was a big help in my automotive education, but honestly the conversations I'd had on-line and reading my manuals were a close second. Getting in there, getting dirty and making mistakes to learn from were the best teachers. Fortunately no one was killed because of some of the things I'd done wrong. Hehe.

:flipoff2:

 

[marc olivares]

...I'd be too much of a wuss to hang out with you Marc...you riding your bike to the top of Butterfield Cnyn. pretty much proves that...

LOL, oh man, your way over estimating my biking abilities, really!
Lance Armstrong, i am definately not
i'd say that maybe i have the lungs of (75year old) Neil Armstrong....not Lance