M998 newbie looking for advice

[ari]

I second that, I sold the cargo cover, doors, soft top, tailgate and fabricated my own wagon style hardtop and rear to enclose everything.
Making it yourself is a lot of work, fun but a lot of work and extremely cheaper than buying something.
I made my extended hardtop for about 600 bucks. That included C pillar, D Pillar, rear door, side door, enclosing everything.

sounds cool post up a pic

 

[DLJIII]

 

[ari]

cool looks interesting. does it have doors in the rear?

 

[Action]

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Will that tire clear the custom exhaust when the suspension is compressed?

 

[DLJIII]

Here is the rear door. There is another smaller door on the passenger side above the wheel well.
Yes, the exhaust extension I fabricated uses the original tail pipe, extended it out of the body and wheel well.
Then up and away from the vehicle. If the tire compressed the shocks to that point it would not touch the pipe and probably break my half shafts.
I am gentle with my rig, work and pleasure rides only.

 

[schersch78]

I hope you get your doors. Let us know what happens.

My X-doors showed up yesterday via freight. They are just as advertised: a little rough. With a little TLC, they'll work great. Finally got my EUC cleared and will be picking up my truck tomorrow!

 

[galaxie428]

You should bring your APC and M998 to the fall rally at Haspin. It wouldn't be a far drive for you at all.

 

[NormB]

I have a Plan B rig. The top and rear are nice. The doors are decent but yes the window design is not optimal. They're integrated into the door, so it would take some serious modification to swap them for something else. They don't open very far and thus air flow inside the truck is poor even with the rear open.View attachment 691592View attachment 691593View attachment 691594View attachment 691595View attachment 691596View attachment 691597View attachment 691598

Hey, thanks for your honest assessment of those windows. I've had a set of those doors earmarked/saved on ePay for some time but wasn't comfortable with the window design. Back to looking for a good/used set of X-doors I won't have to sell plasma to afford.

Fans. Fans are good.