Lil Digger Truck - ECORS Stock Racer Build

[cumminsdzl]

I like that tie rod protection, thats straight up custom.

 

[MetalCraftSolved]

I like that tie rod protection, thats straight up custom.

Hell yeah boy.... that was another good golden mountain story on the racetrack

 

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Found some pictures of when I picked this thing up somewhere in between Yucca Valley and Johnson Valley California

 

[gooftrooper89]

it was fun as hell watching this thing at DPG. Good luck with the future build

 

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Hell Yeah Boi Build is done!

Time To race!

 

[shawn]

That was fast.

 

[mcutler]

sweet ass chassis brother

 

[Black Bear]

It aint easy is it?

 

[MetalCraftSolved]

It aint easy is it?

bein cheezy?

 

[UNBREAKABLE]

I don't think it'll fit out the shop door

 

[91oneton]

is that rogerbuilt ?

 

[MetalCraftSolved]

So I just spent a long, awesome week back home in North Carolina for Christmas. And during my excessively pro-longed trek back to Tennessee I had tons of time to treat my little Honda car like a snow plow around the state line on I-40 and think about this project....

It's about time to blow this pile apart and start building shit and I really want to compliment the first truck that I built somehow?

I worked my 14 year old ass off to buy this truck for $2500 from this dude that lives on 64 towards Mocksville and then I spent who knows how much money at Tom's 4 Wheel Drive buying stupid shit!

All in All I rolled it right after I turned 16 and got my license.... My Dumbass would always drive off the side of the road, bang second gear and sling my truck around to face my friends in the car behind me like a badass Needless to say I don't try things 10 times anymore!

TreadStone! haha This is the one that started it all for me as a high school Agricultural Mechanics project 4 years ago

Since I'm not using a Toyota pickup truck body the only things I can come up with are the double B-pillar and the name of the truck....

I think I'll call this truck TreadStone #2

 

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My Idols were Greg Stone and John Thomas when I was 18....
I hope they don't start crying and shit
I remember taking this picture because my pile was beside JT's Pile at the outpost haha

 

[tw89yj]

I think you should run thornbirds on the new racer as a tribute to the original.

 

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I think you should run thornbirds on the new racer as a tribute to the original.

haha I'll have to get rocky to call interco and see if he can score me a set! That's a good idea, I got a tire groover and I know how to use it and I'd rock the shit out of them.... old school son....


My lil digger is back for one more again! I thought I was going to let it be broke til I tore it apart and tubed it out.... BUT peer pressure insisted I get it fixed for 5 days of riding/ Drunk Shenanigans over New Years at Wheelin In The Country

The transmission was cracked from the drive shaft slipping out and smashing into it under power in a roll over which in turn stuck into a fucking log and before it rolled into a bronco it sheared one of the leaf springs....

 

[yoder519]

man i love this yota. so haggard lol. so laet me get things cleared up. the greyish toyota you got when you was a youngin, then rolled it, then you caged it and thats the buggy you posted?

 

[MetalCraftSolved]

yeah my first build, what a shitbox, but I love it.... lol I still have it back in Lexington

 

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So I got it up and running to take to SummerTown for New Years and Def Finished off the body.... and there isn't an ounce of fluid left in the truck anywhere....
I got the body bolts out after work today and all the lines and crap unbolted so I can pull the body off tomorrow hopefully!

 

[336wheeler]

That yoter is shit beat.

 

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Bout time to turn that hat around backwards....

It looks like it will turn out low and mean:Rockon:

 

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I cut away all the excess wires that I don't need and brake lines that I have to redo and place better....

 

[WARRIORWELDING]

you don't own a pressure washer? or at least a garden hose?

 

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haha, actually we have both! The water outside the shop has been frozen solid lately, we got like 5 inches of snow or something