Hock's 2012 Raptor Build

[Hockster]

Was going to install shocks today but decided to make a rack to hold stuff first... Got all the mounts made today... Oh ya and the bed bolts cam right out with ease!!! ha ha go figure...
So **** trying to keep my cost down making this rack... I'm at $112 so far ha ha... So I had to really get creative to get the mounts to fit...

 

[Hockster]

So since so many are making their rack the usual way I decided to make mine look a bit different... Of course its not done U need to add a few more runners and a few support feet but this is what its going to look like when finished... I am making a second rack that will hold a big aluminum box I have for all my stuff... It will be alone mounted off the back 2 bed bolts...









Unless I get this eye disease under control This will be my last DYI build thingy I am doing.. I cannot see anymore to weld. My welds look like a 3year old did them. Dam glad for grinders!!!

 

[Hockster]

Close to completed..

 

[Yukon Joe]

Cool design Hock. I like how you tied in the winch set up.

Yukon Joe
Delta Force
Snoball500 Support Raptor

 

[Hockster]

Cool design Hock. I like how you tied in the winch set up.

Yukon Joe
Delta Force
Snoball500 Support Raptor

Thanks... Just went with something different cause everyone else has the straight look. I want to build a front bumper but I cant see anymore with the ****** eye I got.. Im gonna ask Ironman to do my welding... Ill bring up my bender and we can make 2 bumpers one for his one for mine... lol This getting old shit really does suck bad...

This is my design...

 

[Icecobra]

Looks good for a guy than can see, looks great for a guy that can not see so well... I am 5 years behind ya and I hope the eye trouble is not exponentially faster as I get older.. My son is my fall back as I get older he sees the details I see the big picture... lol...

 

[Hockster]

Looks good for a guy than can see, looks great for a guy that can not see so well... I am 5 years behind ya and I hope the eye trouble is not exponentially faster as I get older.. My son is my fall back as I get older he sees the details I see the big picture... lol...

I got the chicken pox virus in 08 in my left eye and didnt know it. 4 days later I was ******, almost lost my eye... Ive been dealing with it returning every 3 months now and I am using a steroid drop and its causing a cataract... Basically I have ****** in my left eye!!! ha ha ha

 

[Icecobra]

THAT SUCKS HOCK...... here's to Hopeing to not get it.....

 

[Squatting Dog]

No eye sex with hockster!

-Greg

 

[DirtNasty]

Besides all the eye sex talk, that looks pretty damn good so far.

And im within ya on the praise for grinders, its been years since i welded but i do explicitly remember loving my grinder more then my welds.