Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Lots of things going on at the rock shop. We recently hired Zuki Dave (formerly of jeep Masters). He started working at Krawltex yesterday. With many years of hot rod building as well as Jeep repair, Zuki also knows a thing or two about building Samurais!

The new shop is coming along and we hope to move in around my birthday, October 15th. We passed the water inspection and await the building inspector and fire marshal approval for our certificate of occupancy. We are all very excited to move in to the new, larger facility off 500 Brushy Creek in Cedar Park.

This past weekend we got a couple chores accomplished at the new shop. Davin and Tony came up to help Ted and I construct some work benches. We also ran over 200 feet of 1" ID 450 PSI pvc air lines through the shop. we will have 9 points for compressed air with 3 seperate welding plug circuits!

More parts are trickling in for Jake's 12V swap. We did get the NV4500 installed. The 241 t-case, shifters, pedals, and cross member still need to be routed. Ted has been working on a Honda cylinder head and camshaft replacement as well as diagnosing the factory defect ARB in Patrick's Rubicon. Zuki did a steering box frame repair and bolt on brace on Tony's 82 Chevy K10. He also readjusted an e-brake set up on Chris' 8.8 disc converted Mazda Navajo.

Today, Ted will finish up this Honda and take a look at Jane's eclipse AC system. If there's time left, will do some work on the 12V suburban. Zuki is building a swing out tire carrier for Patrick's Rubicon. I will be doing a front bumper addition to the other Patrick's 84 4Runner.