This has been an extremely long week and I apologize for not reporting on our projects. We got slammed on Friday and the parking lot is full of projects. Pics will be coming very soon, possibly tonight.

Monday consisted of Chris working on Eli's YJ. Focus was on getting the rear pinion angle better with a motor mount lift, removing the old spring perches and rotating the pinion up. This Jeep is on 11" of suspension lift and 40" tires. Ted worked on John's Tundra with Chris, diagnosing a blown intermediate housing that stripped the splines on the transmission output and the t-case input.

Tuesday, Ted and I got here at 8AM and worked till 1AM wednesday morning on a Carli 3.0 desert suspension on Tori and William's 2006 diesel Megacab. This kit is the most intense bolt on suspension worthy of running class 8 stock in any of the racing sanctioning bodies. A full write up with pics will be in the tech section of the forum. We got everything on the truck so they could drive home... front chromo heimed arms, progressive coils, billet aluminum shock towers, 3" King shocks and air bumps, bilstein stabalizers, 08 crossover steering, heimed swaybar links, rear Deaver springs, a long travel air bag suspension, 3" king reservoir shocks, air bumps with a heimed crossmember.

Wednesday needless to say, we were pretty cooked. Ted charged Henry's 4runner AC while Chris began designing an aluminum floor cover to protect the shock cradle that goes through the rear floor from our previous triangulated 4 link set up. Chris moved on to hand making track bar brackets for Eli's Jeep. Ted set up Jason Hall's front D60 with a detroit and 4.56's in a stretched early Bronco. I caught up on paperwork and phone calls.

Today, Ted and Chris knocked out the chromo ball joint upgrade on Tori and William's Megacab. There were a few things that we didn't have time to do on Tuesday... airing up the air bumps, adding the second Bilstein steering stabalizer, the front D60 diff guard, limiting straps and front air bump pads, and upper shock engine cage.

Tomorrow we will be doing rear brakes on Ian's 77 Cherokee Chief, finshing up a trackbar crossmember, brakes, and shocks on Eli's YJ, warranty work on Andrew's XJ that we installed a Clayton longarm, and making a plan of action for some tube work on John's Jeepspeed XJ project. Lots to do...

Krawltex Motorsports Birthday

Thanks you to all of our loyal customers and friends. Today marks three years since Glenn, Nate and I opened the shop. A lot has changed since our humble beginnings in a 1000 square foot rat hole. We could not have even dreamed of our current success with out all of you!

Today Chris will finish Eli's rear axle.

Ted is working on a 77 Cherokee Chief rear axle. Then it's on to regearing the front D60 on Jason Hall's stretched EB.

Tomorrow we start on a Dodge megacab and its transformation to long travel status with a Carli desert race suspension. This kit comes with chromoly steering, suspension arms, coils, 3" King air shocks, deavers, an adjustable rear air bag set up along with a whole bunch of goodies.

Other projects for this week are tube work on John Boyd's Jeepspeed race car, hopefully the start to Cory's 5spd conversion in his 4runner, the AC and rear shock floor of Henry's 4runner, and maybe a few more surprises here and there.

Got my 8.8 today and have almost scrounged all the parts for the disc brakes to function properly. Hopefully this 1330 D60 yoke will work on the Ford axle or I'll have to get another d-shaft flange.

Chris continued to work on Eli's monster YJ and diagnosed John's broken Tundra t-case.

Ted is working on Billy's yota AC and finished Aaron's TJ body lift and skids.

Tomorrow I'll be in and out of the office. The guys will have a Tundra t-case to swap along with diagnosing the front axle, a 4Runner starter, a Bronco frontend to shake down, and finshing brakes/traction bar and motor mount lift on El's YJ.

Today Chris is finishing up a trackbar mount on a YJ rolling under 40's and about a foot of lift.

Ted is researching a 5spd swap in Cory's 4runner to elliviate the wiring issues associated with the auto/3.0 wiring harness.

I've been dealing with paperwork and more paperwork.

On a side note, the Bronco 2 how has a 5" rear wheelbase extension from swapping the offset rear leaves around. My 8.8 explorer axle shows up tomorrow and I'll lengthen my driveshaft then. Picking up a front TJ D30 and some C5 leather seats from AK next week! Hopefully I can get the front end linked up and ready by the next K-rocks run...

Katemcy Rocks Memorial Weekend

Boy was it rough getting to last weekend. Ted helped me finish the SAS on Davin's Tacoma. Chris finished up the traction bar, steering, suspension tweaks and linkage on Jeff's 1 ton Jimmy. I pushed ahead on my Bronco 2.

Friday evening/saturday mornin... After cutting the rear glass, hatch and roof off the truck, it was apparent the sheet metal over my head was not going to give any sort of protection. So off it went. During that removal, the windshield cracked so it was tossed. Jeff gave me the rollbar out of his Jimmy. I cut that down and narrowed her to fit. As I began to notch the halo bar, the tubing notcher gave up the ghost. Dropping in the a pilars and finishing it off took till 3AM. Then I drove back to the shop because I forgot to bolt the harness belts in.

Ted swapped a clutch in his 2500 Chevy so we could leave at 9AM and get there before lunch.

Day 1 for the Bronco 2... failing brake system, blew the belts off the truck, flat tire, drove back to camp without power steering

Day 2... failing brake system, blown rear driveshaft, grenaded front hub, flat tire

project mayhem... the 4 day build for Katemcy

I picked up a street legal 84 Bronco 2 for $550 tonight. 6 cylinder, 5spd, 4 wheel drive with a failing brake caliper. Ted and I began stripping it. Some of the interior is gone. It got too late to do much.I'll be building this with mostly used parts lying around the shop and trying to get this turd wheelable for under $1000.

She needs some mad fender trimming to clear some used 33's. I've got various coil springs to give it a couple of inches in the front. Rear may or may not get lifted. Probably throw some extra leaves in or a block. If I find a cheap D30 with 373 gears, it will get a SAS. That may damn near kill me, though.

Depending on how much time is left, the top will be chopped to look like a fullsize without the fiberglass shell or get a simple roll bar and loose the sheet metal to the windshield. Not sure how it will get painted. Currently it is a hodge podge of flat black, dark blue, and peeling tan paints.

pics tomorrow

Today was another hot one. I worked a little on Eli's Jeep... measured for front shocks and driveshafts, got a rear brake line.

Ted fixed a CJ5 driveshaft and did some harness work.

I built an exhaust for Henry's 4runner. He came over and worked on some of the injection system.

Davin's truck is getting closer. Ted reamed the new pitman arm and built the draglink. I have the front axle out again... finished the shackles and prepping for final castor adjustments before bolting it back up, bleeding the brakes, hooking the steering up and mounting shocks and shock hoops. Should be done by Friday.