Skully's ****box

SKULLYOTA · Monday at 1:26 PM

Oooooh Roadless Gear sells the stendo slip yokes $75

YotaAtieToo · Monday at 4:35 PM

bad zuki said:
They didn't drive the rig to the trails.

I like the spare tire/mount on the back. Samurais are tight to begin with. Mount a spare inside and it's stupid.
It will wheel a bit different without the spare though. IDK what kind of trails/camp you run, but for fire roads, I'd keep it.

I'm a no spare guy for everything but overlanding type ****, run decent tires and carry stuff to fix them.

bad zuki said:
I'll never run the adapters when 91-95 flanges bolt on. Seen too many of the adapters fail, then you're ****ed trying to fix it with a drill and oversized bolts/taps.

They still have the wrong pilot and the pinion nut often sticks out too far. I've ran them a bunch, even as a teen with vibration bad enough to make the lug nuts fall off, never had an issue.

bad zuki said:
Honestly, cut the slip yoke and lengthen it. Trail tough used to sell them, but its pretty easy to do.
Or try putting the 1" spacer on the transfer case side. IIRC, Thats what I ran on mine for years. 4000 RPM's at 70 MPH.

I like that idea, no spacers will slightly help with angle and keep regular bolts.

SKULLYOTA · Monday at 5:45 PM

I’m going to try out no spare, in 20ish years of wheeling (knock on wood) I’ve never had to swap a tire on trail. On the street? Several times.

We’ll see if I regret it. I’ll leave the 31” spare in the tow rig for peace of mind.

I wheeled several years with Willie Worthy from Four Wheeler and he didn’t carry a tire on the last rig he built before health reasons made him retire from wheeling. He did pack a chainsaw everywhere though.

The things imo that need to be more quickly accessible from a swing out style bumper are recovery gear.

I think once I convert to a three seater at the end of this season I’ll think about my storage again.

SKULLYOTA · Monday at 5:48 PM

Told my daughter that we’re going to hack this up eventually and clone this rig

bad zuki · Monday at 6:30 PM

SKULLYOTA said:
😭

Search newb. :flipoff2:

SKULLYOTA said:
Told my daughter that we’re going to hack this up eventually and clone this rig

Don’t.

YotaAtieToo · Monday at 6:57 PM

SKULLYOTA said:
Told my daughter that we’re going to hack this up eventually and clone this rig

Dude, we wheeled with him at hammers in 2012. That thing went everywhere and did not have a ton of money in it.

bad zuki said:
Search newb.

Don’t.

Ya, I do love that thing, but don't hack up a good samurai for it. It's all Toyota except the engine and frame anyway.

SKULLYOTA · Monday at 7:39 PM

bad zuki said:
Search newb.

i did, i see what i need now.

bad zuki said:
Don’t.

i dunno, its pretty coooooool

YotaAtieToo said:
Dude, we wheeled with him at hammers in 2012. That thing went everywhere and did not have a ton of money in it.

i have always loved it. I think it was Rock-Wear, or Rok-Wear or Rock-ware or something like that was the OG builder

YotaAtieToo said:
Ya, I do love that thing, but don't hack up a good samurai for it. It's all Toyota except the engine and frame anyway.

funny enough, my dad is cleaning out his shop and is going to give me what ever toyota stuff (axles, 5.29 thirds, tranny's tcases) i can carry back home if i go visit him down south this year. i already have the spare 1.3 engine and theres a samurai frame on CL in my area too......

i could just build it without having to cut mine up guess. be a poor man flesheater buggy

this one and John Hall's scorpion look alike that had the toyota 22r and axles

YotaAtieToo · Monday at 8:02 PM

SKULLYOTA said:
i did, i see what i need now.

i dunno, its pretty coooooool

i have always loved it. I think it was Rock-Wear, or Rok-Wear or Rock-ware or something like that was the OG builder

funny enough, my dad is cleaning out his shop and is going to give me what ever toyota stuff (axles, 5.29 thirds, tranny's tcases) i can carry back home if i go visit him down south this year. i already have the spare 1.3 engine and theres a samurai frame on CL in my area too......

i could just build it without having to cut mine up guess. be a poor man flesheater buggy

this one and John Hall's scorpion look alike that had the toyota 22r and axles

Definitely go that route over cutting up what you have. A 2x4 or 2x3 box tube frame would be super simple to make for the seats forward. Then you could use 0.120 wall instead of 0.001 or whatever the Sami frame is

Although I'd be tempted to go with a different engine than a 1.3 if starting from scratch and having to buy the W56 adapter. Maybe just go to a K24?

SKULLYOTA · Monday at 9:37 PM

Well my old man is going to give me a 5spd, tcase and axles and I have the 1.3L so, fab up a frame and some tube and literally clone this thing with some bald FB 35’s lol. Get a sidekick bell housing, Lucky 13 and a RingR

SKULLYOTA · Monday at 9:41 PM

YotaAtieToo said:
Definitely go that route over cutting up what you have. A 2x4 or 2x3 box tube frame would be super simple to make for the seats forward. Then you could use 0.120 wall instead of 0.001 or whatever the Sami frame is

Although I'd be tempted to go with a different engine than a 1.3 if starting from scratch and having to buy the W56 adapter. Maybe just go to a K24?

I could easily clone the 2x4 box steel Brennan Metcalf frame too now that I think about it.

SKULLYOTA · Monday at 10:01 PM

Old tool box off the ****ty flatbed 2RZ 2wd truck I briefly had that Steve300xcw loved the mirrors on :laughing:

Steve300xcw · Monday at 10:33 PM

2rz woulda been cool in that.....thing

crisbee1 · Monday at 10:37 PM

Heavy and tall, rzeez lean in a toy, would also require a t100 pan.

SKULLYOTA · Monday at 10:58 PM

Steve300xcw said:
2rz woulda been cool in that.....thing

If I had space I woulda kept that ****box, SAS’d it and had a good time. Or parted it out and kept the 2RZ/W58.

SKULLYOTA · Monday at 10:59 PM

Lost my original Hot Dogger exhaust burrito warmer so made one out of an old index card box. A little weebly wobbly but I’ll tweak it some more. Love me some hot gas station burritos on the trail.

YotaAtieToo · Tuesday at 8:48 AM

SKULLYOTA said:
I could easily clone the 2x4 box steel Brennan Metcalf frame too now that I think about it.

Was that the top 2x4 just overlapping the bottom? That was in an old Peterson 4wd mag. Was he an editor?

I'd probably want more rise on a buggy Fwiw.

SKULLYOTA said:
Lost my original Hot Dogger exhaust burrito warmer so made one out of an old index card box. A little weebly wobbly but I’ll tweak it some more. Love me some hot gas station burritos on the trail.

Love some paint flavor in my burritos :flipoff2:

SKULLYOTA · Tuesday at 8:50 AM

YotaAtieToo said:
Was that the top 2x4 just overlapping the bottom? That was in an old Peterson 4wd mag. Was he an editor?

no brennan owns a business selling flatfender jeep stuff, he was "Meiser" on PBB and his build was called Rango.

YotaAtieToo said:
Love some paint flavor in my burritos

meh, wrap em in foil.

YotaAtieToo · Tuesday at 8:57 AM

SKULLYOTA said:
no brennan owns a business selling flatfender jeep stuff, he was "Meiser" on PBB and his build was called Rango.

meh, wrap em in foil.

I know who he is, just wasn't sure if he was an editor back in the day.

He's an interesting dude, I've had some good discussions with him on IG before I got band :homer:

Tydes · 2026-06-04T11:09:02-0500

I got a samurai frame you can have.

SKULLYOTA · 2026-06-04T11:18:37-0500

Tydes said:
I got a samurai frame you can have.

hell yeah! i'll text you.

spent way too much time looking on the old place last night and found a buncha pics of that buggy, was built by Rock-Wear.

i really want to build a copy of this. or put a sandrail chassis on the samurai frame. saw one on IG a few years ago.

i would do my spare 1.3L, probably to a track/kick 5spd and samurai tcase doubler, toyota axles.

although i might go the route of stretching another frame a foot or more, find a way to lengthen my rigs body for more room/seating

or stretch another frame and throw a Kei truck bed on the back.

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