Lerch's R50 Chilkoot

Lerch641

New member
So some of you may know me from NPORA (same username), bear with me as there's gonna be alot of copy and paste;

Bought it last September from a guy an hour away, he'd been using it as a farm/beater truck and it was in pretty rough shape. CV shaft was busted and the boots were cracked, shocks and brakes needed to be replaced, taillight was cracked...it was generally beaten up but still fixable. So I paid the guy, drove the backroads home and parked it in the driveway, then spent a weekend cleaning it inside and out (sorry, didn't think about BEFORE pictures).

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Went to the junkyard and grabbed a new taillight to swap out...

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New headlights, air filter, spark plugs and floormats were next. After that I made an appointment with the shop on base to get the CV shaft and boots, brakes and shocks fixed, and then safetied for insurance. In the end, got it back on the road and insured just before we started getting snow in November. Once it got cold I packed it in and started looking into ideas for what to do with her. Lifts, tires, racks, but my priority since I wasn't going to be offroading in the winter was making the inside nicer, so next step was a new stereo to replace the deck that wouldn't read CD's...

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Took me an afternoon to wire up and install, but FAR better than the stock deck.

Next priority was getting ready for the awful spring roads that we see in Manitoba (they grit the roads here so there's gravel covering the streets now). So I hire a friend on base to make me a skid plate and I set out myself to bed line the sides.

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Results on the sides, I'm happy.

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The steel skid guard my friend fabricated for me, similar to the ones 4x4design used to make.

On top of that I had ordered some vent guards off eBay for the windows. I'd been planning to pick some up and somebody on the R50 Facebook page linked to these ones, so why not?

BEFORE

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AFTER

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Picked up a short antenna from Crappy Tire for a couple bucks.

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I ordered new tires and picked up the spacers from 4x4design (2" set all around), and was sent to Alberta for work, so I left it at the shop to get everything installed, last picture before my big change.

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(note the busted headlight, happened while playing in the trails with my friend)

And here she is when I got back;

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So there's the 2" spacers from 4x4design, Goodyear Duratrac 31x10.5x15 and new struts and sway bar.
Cut out the bumper because of rubbing while in reverse, and then redid the bedlining on my hood.

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Picked up a few decals for the side, also named her finally, AND managed to get myself some taillight guards (Westin);

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Allof75

Pathfinder
I still like the resurrection theme of this build, welcome! What exactly the graphic part of the chilkoot package supposed to be? Trees?
 

marty1977

Adventurer
Great to see another R50. I like your bedlining on the truck, I do have a lot of gravel roads as well and so far I was painting underbody whatever places I could reach but maybe doing the sides is a good idea as well.
 

Lerch641

New member
The Chilkoot decal is supposed to be hikers on the Chilkoot Trail.

And thanks guys, I've been accumulating a shopping list of parts over the last couple months. More changes to come!
 

Lerch641

New member
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Snagged a roof basket on sale from Princess Auto, and an extra roof bar from the scrap yard.
This weekend I'm gonna take the front plate and attach my license plate to it.
 

mortonm

Expedition Leader
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Snagged a roof basket on sale from Princess Auto, and an extra roof bar from the scrap yard.
This weekend I'm gonna take the front plate and attach my license plate to it.

my brother has the same roof rack on his XJ, no issues so far
 

Lerch641

New member
It's a great rack for the price, I managed to drill it and mount my lisence plate today;
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All in all I like it, and it's got about 34" across the inside so my spare tire will fit no problem.
 

mortonm

Expedition Leader
It's a great rack for the price, I managed to drill it and mount my lisence plate today;
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All in all I like it, and it's got about 34" across the inside so my spare tire will fit no problem.

When I helped him mount it I literally couldn't believe how light it was!!
 

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