THe NAC Lots-O-BFG KO2 Thread

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Begster said:
Some XXXXtard I know who has a JK is head over heals of the "Gobi stealth rack." Stupid useless piece of metal costs over $1k, and he is in love with the thing.
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this is such a redundant statement I can't even figure out where to start. :roflmao:

vetteboy said:
Sooo...you want it, or no?



Back when I still gave a shit about answering dumb threads, whenever anyone would ask "what should I buy next for my rig?", my answer was always to take whatever money you wanna spend on parts, and use it to go wheeling instead. You'll eventually find out for yourself what you wanna spend on money on.

Same thing with deciding what bullshit to carry with you. If you're cool with carrying a few hundred pounds of sockets and wrenches while your rig sounds like a train wreck going down the trail, so you can be "that guy" who has everything to fix everyone else's rig, more power to ya.

Maybe I'm just jaded (and exceptionally bitter today, for some reason), but to me this whole sport is about self-expression and trial and error. If I gave a shit about what anyone else wanted me to do, would I really be attempting to run a TTB 35 front end? :laugh:



I built my roof rack out of conduit. Literally, straight shots of 3/4" EMT conduit, with 90* elbows, and the little couplings with set screws on each end. I framed it out like that and welded cross braces to the galvanized tube without cleaning it first. I used reinforcing mesh for concrete as a floor instead of expanded steel because that was the closest thing I could find at Home Depot. It was held to my (homebrew) roof rack bars by a mix of Home Depot u-bolts and small exhaust clamps. That piece of shit carried my spare tire, hi-lift, strap, and 4 lights for almost 3 years.
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Yes, definitely!

I carry damn near every tool I own on the trail. Of course they fit in a single ~70lb semistructured toolbag and will fix almost anything on an XJ/MJ. Every spare part? Nah I leave that in piles at the campsite these days :eyes:

I see nothing wrong with a homebrew roof rack, just the idiots making them out of pvc pipe and crap like that need to be shot.
 
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I throw all my tools and shit in my sweet box in the back, doesnt make a peep
 
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MoparManiac said:
After I have a spare tire mount figured out, I'm going to find a way to securely mount a toolbox in the bed somewhere and carry just what I need.
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That rollup jobber that I have is pretty much the best thing I've found. Quiet, compact, organized, and easy as hell to transport wherever you need it. Every wrench from 1/4" to 1", every socket from 3/8" to 1", ratchet, extension, two screwdrivers, and an allen wrench set in something that takes up as much space as a foot-long sandwich.

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I had a telescoping breaker bar with a ~4" extension built into it. Thing was about a foot long when collapsed and went out to two feet, and the extension was perfect for use as a lug wrench. That thing kicked ass and I'll be looking for another one when I assemble the toolkit for the next rig.

The rollup thing, that breaker bar, a hammer, lug nut socket, yoke socket (the 1-5/16" also serviced the pitman arm nut, and the 1-1/8" fit the tie rod castle nuts), spark plug socket w/universal drive, big adjustable wrench, a pipe wrench, vice grips, and a hub tool...that was enough to do 90% of all work on my rig. If I needed more than that, chances are whatever was wrong was beyond the scope of an immediate trailside repair anyway.
 
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vetteboy said:
I built my roof rack out of conduit. Literally, straight shots of 3/4" EMT conduit, with 90* elbows, and the little couplings with set screws on each end. I framed it out like that and welded cross braces to the galvanized tube without cleaning it first. I used reinforcing mesh for concrete as a floor instead of expanded steel because that was the closest thing I could find at Home Depot. It was held to my (homebrew) roof rack bars by a mix of Home Depot u-bolts and small exhaust clamps. That piece of shit carried my spare tire, hi-lift, strap, and 4 lights for almost 3 years.
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My roof rack was made out of the same EMT conduit, also held spare, hi-lift, and when i went to NAC-fest I threw a bunch of camping gear up there as well. Atleast 100 pounds, and it was cheap as hell. I finally got sick of it and realized I never actually used the thing so I sold it.
 
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Yeah maybe I'll go the toolbag route this time.

There's a perfect little nook right in front of my battery box that could house a toolbag.

I purposely tried to use 5/8" bolts on everything I could suspensionwise to make tool carrying simpler.

Every control arm uses them, track bar, all steering links, rear u-bolt eliminator bolts are too.

Now that I think about it, I think I've pretty much deleted any and all metric bolts on my Jeep other than the NP241 case half/input bolts and the NV4500 tailhousing bolts.

A standard socket set would probably do me just fine :laugh:
 
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dwe meeting tonight whos in?

MEEEE
 
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I need a wrench roll up, my wrenches look like this chilling in my back seat
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I'd like a nice tool bag for the tools in my craftsman tool box, i hate lugging that huge thing around
 
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MoparManiac said:
Yeah maybe I'll go the toolbag route this time.

There's a perfect little nook right in front of my battery box that could house a toolbag.

I purposely tried to use 5/8" bolts on everything I could suspensionwise to make tool carrying simpler.

Every control arm uses them, track bar, all steering links, rear u-bolt eliminator bolts are too.

Now that I think about it, I think I've pretty much deleted any and all metric bolts on my Jeep other than the NP241 case half/input bolts and the NV4500 tailhousing bolts.

A standard socket set would probably do me just fine :laugh:
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But what if you have to take the fenders or bed off on the trail?! Or your hood?
 
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had this in the back, big mistake. 3 bumps and the XXXXer blew apart. i have sheet rock screw and ratchet straps holding the box together
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I got a small bag with a couple of neede sockets pliers and screwdrivers and a 5/15 rachet wrench and a 1310 ujoint I'm planning on picking up a action packer bin to hold them and my tow strap, speaking of I had dom order me a hilift and tow strap and completly spaced on club dues I supose ill just pay mu dues next month
 
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kastein said:
But what if you have to take the fenders or bed off on the trail?! Or your hood?
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I would need a sawzall to get the bed off (welded to tube).

And I might ditch the stock front fenders at some point over the summer/fall.

But damn, that hood is always in the way.
 
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