Mod Day IV

Anyone up for another Mod Day? If no one has any new mods, anyone up for helping me put mine on?

What did you buy now??

I need to pull my wheels and grease the bearings. Want to help I am up for a get together especially if anyone has experience. Not sure where Chris has been???????

Let me know when and where .... I am open for a few weekends

I am up for later in October.

What did I get? Lighting.

I should be able to pick up a body lift by then... I'm down... also need to change all my fluids, and could sure use a little assistance... I'm pretty good at wiring and electrical, I'd be happy to help with that...
*edit* hey Roger... I can pull wheels like no one else!!! wanna do a body lift?

Kraig, the body lift will go easier now that we have one under our belts Now all we need is a date and place. I am open for my place if it's soon. My place is for sale and I will be moveing soon. Just down the road a bit but new house will not be available for working out of yet.

Scott, set it up and we will follow

Roger when did you decide to buy a new house? I remember you hinting that you were thinking about it but never heard anything concrete.

You guys are welcome to have it at my place again if you want.

How about the weekend of October 11th?

Also, can we perhaps limit the amount of trucks this time? I think we over did ourselves at the last Mod Day as we did not get everything finished. Nea, yea? Of course, if we have tons of helpers, we can do more. Just my toughts, machs nichs to me.

Right now we have me, Roger, Kraig and of course Chris if he has anything (as he is hosting).

Hey Rb - We are going to have the Mod Day at Chris' again.... in Fort Worth.

You can ride with me if you wanna.

Saturday would be fine as usual. I would like to scan my truck if you come. I keep getting intermitent lights for some reason.

Roger and Kraig - U guys up for the 11th?

11th sounds good to me... hopefully I can get everything in by then... even if not, I'll make it up there for a fluid change and to help out where I can...
Hey Chris... thanks for letting us use your place again... it'll be nice to finally meet some other members...

We need to move ModDay to the 4th of October. Roger/Kraig, you ok with that?

The 4th would actually be perfect for me. I'm planning on being in Dallas for that evening anyway. Sounds great!

You have anything to do on your truck Jason, or just gonna hang out?

Oh, I'll bring tha stock gas tank skid for ya. I guess you will have a 'mod' after all.

That's about all I had in mind. If I'm feeling adventurous, I might look at re-wiring my lights (I did a hack job the first time).

Scott, you already know the 4th is better for me

Jason... Caravan? you name the time as you have an earlier start time

Chris (2001Frontier), would you mind if I came over and hung out with you guys on MOD day IV and meet some of the XOC members. You know I can Help you with your rear bumper work if you want.

Of course you are welcome to come Herkie. Bring the monkey, and we can train it to weld or something.

I have my daughter that weekend, so I can't make it then... I have her first and third weekends... plus that cuts a week off my order time, and I'm still trying to scrape extra cash together... you guys go ahead, though... I'll work something else out, or just make it to the next one...

*edit* You guys suck!

Think I may hold off on the lift and install a snorkel first... pulled my filter today and it's nasty... shackles and t-bars should hold me for a bit... hey Jason... you wanna help me tear up my truck?

Kraig -- when are you getting your new bumper, by the way?

Dunno... ask Jim... ordered it the end of last month... he said about 3-4 weeks... soon, hopefully... my truck looks like butt with that mangled bumper... I'm soooo ready! That thing is super cool! Gonna make a huge difference! (had to say something nice in case Jim's reading this )

Name the time and bring the beer.

I'd like to come to the Mod Day if I can make it... just to meet some folks, hang out... maybe help if needed.

Anyone got directions to 2001frontier's place? Time to meet there etc?

I would like to stop by, maybe help, maybe point and laugh and drink beer. Directions and time? I'm coming from Richardson, 75 and 635 if that helps any.

Plano area folk. We can meet at the Wal-Mart on Spring Creek and 75 at say 0810 Saturday morning.

SurfTeach - Can you meet us at Courtesy Nissan?

Scott I'll meet you at the Walmart. I need to do some more electrical stuff...I'd like to run a fused 8 or 10 gauge power cable to a power block underneath the stereo for future eletcronics installs.

I'd like to also run a 8 or 10 gauge wire to the rear so I can set up my inverter and wire up some wall sockets into the plastic panels. I hope I have enough time.

Ram, Courtesy Nissan is north of me. I am actually between Beltline and SpringValley, so I can just meet you at the Wal-Mart at 8:10. What corner of the parking lot?

I'd say the one with all the modified X's in it.

Everybody's a wiseguy

As my dad says.. It is better to be a smartass than a dumbass.

The NE corner closest to Spring Creek. My truck is yellow, so we will be easy to find.

Oh, you did notice we are meeitng at Spring CREEK, not Spring Valley. I offered Courtesy Nissan as it is far closer to you than 75 and Spring Creek, but we will wait at the WalMart for ya.

So what mods are everyone doing? I plan to install my body lift, and hopefully raise up my ARB.

I'm going to see if I can cancel my Sat. appt. to make it up there (assuming AC gets me this thing in time)... anyone know anything about putting on a snorkel?

I know we get to mangle your fender to install it! I have a body saw that should work well for that. If not my jigsaw will.

Could we please leave the term "mangle" out? HERE\'S a pretty good write up on an install... look do-able?

Hehehe. If Carlton can do it, a group of guys like us should be able to. I am sure it comes with instructions anyway. Maybe he can chime in with any pointers from when his was installed.

Chris, wanna do lunch next week so I can see what you did to your truck?

Sure. We can do that. I won't have my tires until the week after that though, so it is probably going to look like poopoo with my bald donuts on there.

Anyone else from Austin area going? Besides you, Jason... and Chris... where the hell do you live?

2417 Maryel
Fort Worth, TX 76112

If anyone shows up to my house in the middle of the night I will shoot you!

Anyone got a hole saw?

What size? Is that what you want to use to cut through the fender? If so, and no one has one, make sure you buy a good bimetal one. I probably have the base part of the saw that screws into the hole saw itself.

Its ok my tires are bald too. I get new ones sometime in the next few weeks myself.

What are you getting?

Not sure on size... might have to pick one up when I get there and see what size I need...

Probably the Dunlop MT's as they are pretty cheap and rated almost as good as the BFG's

Actually, as stated in a independent research test they concluded that the Dunlap MT tires (last year) were rate best overall for the price when compaired against the other tire manufactures that make the same class tire but only charging a whole lot more for them.

See you guys on Saturday!

I have a 4" hole saw...but I do not have the bit that goes in it. I have the outside portion and the chuck , but it needs a small bit to go in it...

I am going to go with the Dunlops as well. The only thing that concerns me are the sidewalls durability.

I've had several Jeep friends run the Dunlops becuase of the price, and they never had any complaints... last guy I saw was fixing to buy another set because he had absolutely no tread left... seems like he had them for a few years...

Sweet. I can get five of them in 33x12.5 with a new rim for the spare for a little less than four BFG MTs in 33x12.50.

ok... snorkel just came in... this looks like fun! Hole saw needed is 86mm which converts to 3.386"? Looks like rest of holes will be 14mm (.5512")... Looks like this, too, was built for the Navara... Anyone know if they make an 86mm hole saw?
*edit* just went to Home Depot... same as 3.5"... anyone got? Part is $15 and I will never use again, so if I don't have to buy it, I'd rather not...

All i have is the 4"... I do have a jig saw, but that can get very very messy unless you have a steady hand.. I am going to bring the jig saw and some fine blades anyways..

Chris - I have the toolbox loaded up and ready to go. It turns out that it is plastic with metal reinforcement. It's a nice box nonetheless. We'll probably get over there around 3 or so. See ya'll then.

See you all tomorrow morning. I'll be on FRS 5 no codes.

Good day for mods. Lights, snorkel, body lift. Again, Ken thanks.

Oh, yeah 15 double cheeseburgers!!!!

I swear I thought that snorkel was going to take longer than the BL! It didn't though. I finally finished it up at around 7 PM last night. Now I just need to build new front and rear bumpers.

I want to thank everyone for their help on Sat... Chris, thanks for the tools... Scott, thanks for the place to crash... Jason(s), thanks for stopping by to WATCH! Anyway... anyone get any pics, or just video?

Just video. I did not realize my camera battery was dead.

Keith said he could grab stills from the video - and it's supposed to be an awesome camera.

There should be enough video on there for 4 or 5 good in-progress shots for both the body lift and the snorkel. I don't know when/if he'll do it tho.

Hey now, I did more than just watch , I just didn't help you much. You seemed to have it all under control Now the other Jason, he didn't do anything but watch...

Hey, wait a minute - I turned a wrench a couple of times while I was there. But it was more fun to drink beer and watch

Hey man I just wired my garage for 220 and have been playing with my New POS 1970s series welder... but I will grab some pics tonight and throw them up...