540 BBC 68 Burb Dually 54" Boggers on Rocks

[y5mgisi]

25?! Crazy! Im 26 now and there is no way i could imagine myself building that truck! It has been pretty awesome going from day one on buttpirate to where it is now!

[68burbanontherocks]

I was gonna throw up a video of its first start up but stupid thing says invalid file. Its only 1.32 mb 15 second clip but it wont let me upload it. Any tips or i could just send the file to someone else and they could give it a try.

[pickup67man]

Originally Posted by 68burbanontherocks

I was gonna throw up a video of its first start up but stupid thing says invalid file. Its only 1.32 mb 15 second clip but it wont let me upload it. Any tips or i could just send the file to someone else and they could give it a try.

I haven't found an easy way to embed a video here. I link a video from YouTube and still have to change some language to make it work. Maybe someone else has an easy button. My YouTube videos only share with a link so you can't browse them.
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[57NAPCO]

I must say.....you did one hell of a job
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[Cumminpwr11]

hey Joel, I sent you a PM.

The more I look at those pictures the more I get impressed. Not to mention the ideas it fosters.

Chris

[RatRod68]

Originally Posted by 68burbanontherocks

Haha thanks man, well this past may i just finished up getting my masters in cellular and molecular biochemistry. In june got hired on as a bio chemist at a cheese factory then once monster came through as a title sponsor in august i started working on the truck full time. I have recieved early acceptance to a few medical schools but to be honest i think i want to build race blown monster trucks, tube frame chassis, or ultra 4 koh style buggies. My wife likes plan a better and do the trucks in my free time haha.
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Here i am *****ing about starting my MBA. Thats an awesome acomplishment man. Congrats. What med schools? Ones there in NM?

[68burbanontherocks]

Originally Posted by 57NAPCO

I must say.....you did one hell of a job
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Thanks buddy! Its wierd having all this stuff people call free time
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[tecky11]

i just finished reading this all 15 pages, and i am just amazed on what you have done. great work, i am envious. altho i do have a question tho, how much did it cost to have those wheels made? PM me the details if you want.

[68burbanontherocks]

Originally Posted by tecky11

i just finished reading this all 15 pages, and i am just amazed on what you have done. great work, i am envious. altho i do have a question tho, how much did it cost to have those wheels made? PM me the details if you want.

Haha thanks man! Well the wheels are made by john staszak at Stazworks. He builds one off custom 4x4 steel wheels for alot of the top truck challenge trucks as well as many others. My front tires are 20X14's and the rears are 20x12's all double beadlocked, hands down he builds the best wheels and there all in house. Check out his website (stazworks.com)and you'd have to call him for pricing ect. He has a haas cnc machine so all those cool tabs i have he made for me and he also does rear steer kits. So hes definalty not one dimensional doing just wheels. If you call him tell him joel with the piece of crap suburban sent you and he will help ya out ha.
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[68burbanontherocks]

Originally Posted by Cumminpwr11

hey Joel, I sent you a PM.

The more I look at those pictures the more I get impressed. Not to mention the ideas it fosters.

Chris

Chris! Hey man i just built this frankenstein cradle for the fenders its awesome haha stuffed both of them onto one pallot. Ill call ya and let you know once i talk to a few shipping companies and hopefully the "saga of the fenders" will soon be over!
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[68burbanontherocks]

Originally Posted by RatRod68

Here i am *****ing about starting my MBA. Thats an awesome acomplishment man. Congrats. What med schools? Ones there in NM?

No im way too white for the med schools in new mexico! Lol but seriously they just want first generation "Chicano" students who are bilingual ect. And im just a 6'5 285lb x college football player/ogar so basically the exact opposite of what they want! I was accepted to the university of Miami-Miller School of Medicine in Miami, university of colorado in denver, Tulane and LSU in New Orleans, and USC in Southern California.
So ive been pretty fortunate i have a few options, but im defiantly not gonna go to USC, my family lives in denver area and my wife's family is from looserana so maybe one of those areas but my mom, uncle, an aunt, and two cousins went to Miami-Miller so that's the obvious choice... personally i just wanna build monster trucks and tube frame chassis for ultra 4 buggies, rock, crawlers, roundy round cars, and big ghey mud trucks, but nobody seems to understand why lol
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[68burbanontherocks]

Just a little poser shot! Mabye one day ill have a few pictures of it in action haha.
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[68burbanontherocks]

Look at that booty! Lol
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[RatRod68]

you got that thing running yet??

Edit: Driving

[68burbanontherocks]

Originally Posted by RatRod68

you got that thing running yet??

Edit: Driving

Lol yea, i had to have it running by sema. The problem is i havent put sway bars on yet so its a pain in the ass to drive cause it squats to one side then to the other. So i need to make some just ordered the pillow blocks so hopefully it will be jumping in no time!
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[propanemudtruck]

awesome work

[scotts72heavyhalf]

Any updates?

[68burbanontherocks]

Originally Posted by scotts72heavyhalf

Any updates?

Actually yea. Bad news though..... So while the truck was at sema it basically only ran for about 2 minuites total, just enough to get it off the trailer and into its spot. When i brought it back home i just kept it on the trailer and spent time with my wife for a bit cause i kinda missed her for the last 8 months of working on the truck lol. Then i went out to turn the motor over and i could hear this grinding noise coming from the blower snout, thought thats odd i wonder what that is. So i pulled a spark plug off and bumped it again and could hear the grinding in the supercharger still so i pulled off the inspection cover for the blower snout and this is what i saw......

[68burbanontherocks]

So the machine shop who assembled the motor and dynoed it for 20 minutes "forgot" to put any gear oil in the blower snout, it ended up screwing up the 4 of the 6 Teflon strips on the rotors, knocking the barrings out of balance, and fried the gears....

No worries though, Don Hampton at Hampton Blowers came to the rescue and fixed it free of charge! (900 dollars in parts and labor). Oh and he even called the machine shop and let them have it! Great dude and awesome customer service i really hope i have an excuse to put a blower on another motor just so i can use his product again!

Blower Timeline:
Figured it out on Sunday 11/18
Sent it to him monday 11/19
He got it on wendesday 11/21
Sent it back to me with tracking number 11/23
Scheduled to be at my door Tuesday 11/27

[RatRod68]

WHOA!! Words could not fathom the amount of anger I would have had. I would take the truck and run over the machine shop after that

[Dieselwrencher]

Originally Posted by RatRod68

WHOA!! Words could not fathom the amount of anger I would have had. I would take the truck and run over the machine shop after that

LMAO! Same here!


Man, sorry to see that. That is a really bad deal. That's awesome of Don to do that. I may have to look into him for a supercharger kit for my hemi when the time is right. I can't wait to see a vid of this monster doing it's thing!!!!

[1985-GMC]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

Man, sorry to see that. That is a really bad deal. That's awesome of Don to do that. I may have to look into him for a supercharger kit for my hemi when the time is right. I can't wait to see a vid of this monster doing it's thing!!!!

Better yet put one on your longhorn along with the twins!

[68burbanontherocks]

Originally Posted by RatRod68

WHOA!! Words could not fathom the amount of anger I would have had. I would take the truck and run over the machine shop after that

Lol yea i verbally bodyslamed the guy. Hes an angry old man (call him mr scrooge!) which makes it worse, just not a nice guy even when he was blatently wrong all he said was oops i guess i dropped the ball... He used to build motors for don schumacher racing then for one reason or another moved to new mexico lol.

Eh owell its all taken care of now....

[68burbanontherocks]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

LMAO! Same here!


Man, sorry to see that. That is a really bad deal. That's awesome of Don to do that. I may have to look into him for a supercharger kit for my hemi when the time is right. I can't wait to see a vid of this monster doing it's thing!!!!

Haha yea its pretty schweet. I acutally got the blower back today so threw it on and fired it up. The thing is stupid loud. Took it around the block which turned into "on site testing lol" Before i knew it the brakes were glowing red and i was out of fuel. No kidding lol. It took everything i threw at it and then some. I think it may be a little bit too much horsepower for my liking....

HA yeah right as if there is such a thing!!! I just need to adjust the rear nitrogen shock pressure cause if you romp on it it will just squat real hard till you let off. Theres still alot of testing and tuning prior to a video lol.

Fab wise it seems to be holding up really well the frame is really stout and for how big it is the weight seems really balanced out!

[Cumminpwr11]

Holy hell. I'd be pissed for sure. Glad that Don stepped up and fixed someone else's mistake. That's customer service that I love to hear about. Post a youtube video so I can drool some more. I wish I had half your talent.

Loved the turkey picture. Every guy at my plant wants one now. Better get that patent quick!
Chris
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