"Zachary Burcham" <roadking_dakota@hotmail.com> wrote:
: Hey! Real quick, I've been watching the digest for about a month now just
: soaking it up, this is my first post so I hope I don't screw it up. That's
: Matt's QC, the reason he's probably runnin' the 33s is that it was a budget
: build. He was out on a trail in it and blew the front diff apart I believe,
: I saw a video of it. So he just decided to do a swap. That's all his work,
: he did it himself for what I was told was under $3k. It's been done since
: summer and has been trail tested twice I believe. He's in a group of about
: 4-5 dakotas that regularly go out trail driving. They're mostly from
: Eastern OH and Western PA. You can see more pics of it at
: www.dakotatrucks.com under albums and KillerDakota2 if you want to, he has
: some fun flex pics.
Wow, if he was able to build that for $3K, that's great! :-)
I have seen people selling just the solid front axle parts for
that amount of money. He's got some pretty cool homebuilt rock
sliders too, says they are strong enough to jack the truck up
with; that sure could have come in handy down in the ravine, eh
Adam? :-)
Here's a direct link to those photos, for those of you who
don't feel like drilling down through the side:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?B54E66C67
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