Just found this, anything come of it? Most of the single lever shifters have what I'll call a "wobble plate" that the lever acts on. It operates both shift rails and relies on the shuttle pins to keep from doing something bad like putting front in low range while rear is in high range. To convert a...

I had forgotten what the alcoa backspacing was. Now that you point it out I remember measuring a looong while back and thinking it was 4.25. Guess those are a no-go. As for the spindle boring - sounds about the way to go with just giving them a bit more progress at a time. I've had stuff like that w...

I need to get another stocker and see if there's enough material to make them 5 spoke. Not sure if the holes will clean up without it looking funny. Your starburst copies on the DGAF toy look good. I'd be interested to see what you could do in a star pattern. Let's see if this linking in a photo wo...

These are a set of 5, 15x7's I had for a while. They seem super rare. I still have a 16x7 in 5x5.5 of these up in the rafters. I LOVE the look of these but finally sold my 5 I'd been hoarding when I decided to take all trucks to 8 lug. Now I wish I had um back. This 5 star pattern also came in an 8 ...

Does alcoa make a 17? I think they discontinued their 5 spoke pattern though. Looks like an AR 23 - just stronger. I'll inquire on the 7475. Sounds interesting. Same buddy who has the acorn tables used to be a machine specialist for Boeing. He would have to come in and try & figure out why they were...

I was going to say ask Desolate if they had an opinion on numbers. Cool they gave you that measurement.

I'd probably do exactly as you are planning and leave the arms like that (you can weld the tubes together for now) and set the final stuff up on the truck and tack the plates there.

Yeah, not actual acorns. I saw where your mind went. And I only had one of these tables and honestly I like the newer tables with holes or threaded holes better. The platens only work if you have the tooling for them. They were ok to clamp to but the new style stuff is way better. My buddy has 6 of ...

Fixture table. Acorn is a brand name. Looked like one of these to me. This is my old one.

Fun...

Nice acorn table by the way.

There is some caster built into the beams already, I just forget how much. I want to say it's around 5*. As for how much to run, that's kind of driver and driving style dependent. For dirt only trucks guys go as high as like 16*. I know Geoff at Giant likes 15-16* if I remember right. For street and...

Apparently American Racing Wheels, KMC wheels, Black Rhino Wheels and who knows who all else have been purchased by some entity that calls themselves "wheelpros". All dimensional data for their wheels is now privileged information. We feeble-minded customers can't be trusted to figure out what whee...

Funny, I thought that stuff looked familiar, but with SteveG saying we were having new account issues I was thinking maybe the guy posted up under a different screen name now. Anybody else look up the 919 area code? It's Raleigh North Carolina area. With cell phones now & people moving all over they...

Nice. Knew I'd seen the screen name somewhere before but it's been a long while since I was active on RDC. Like 15+ years lol. This place is mellow and a good group of guys.

Good looking start. Like your new wheels better than what it came with for sure. Those look good!

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Tue Mar 23, 2021 7:37 am

Its amazing how much better it looks with the Raptor wheels on it. It looks way more respectable with what you did to it. Great work!

Good to see you finally joined instead of being a creepy lurker

Sounds like a fun ride - post some pics up!

Welcome. Same RacerX from DezertRangers, etc?

While McMaster ain't cheap - at least they're quick. Down here we're nearly same day delivery from them. Plus if the vendor is going to order from them anyway you might as well save the drive and the middle man markup.

Now this is getting entertaining!

Love the upgrades Bray! Looking good.