tubbing front guards

[lil86]

im looking at cutting my front guards to allow clearance for 35's, curretly its an 86 single cab with a 2 inch body lift and ome 60mm springs with 33's. i dont wanto go any higher and cutting the guards and firewall seems pretty straight foreward but i cant work out how you get around the problem of accelerator pedal when the firewall has been tubbed.
i know it can be done i've seen the pics of the tubbed firewall but not the pedal arangement, anyone know how its done?

[RUFF]

The pedal is fine because you cut the firewall below where it bolts on and you just bend the bottom of the pedal up a little to get Full throttle again. I only notice mine is bent up higher after getting out of my 2wd lux and into my 4wd one.

I will post every pic of when i did mine in this thread as i dont know if i have them all anywhere else here.

Im not describing the procces as you should get the idea. But if you have any questions just ask.

[RUFF]

[RUFF]

[RUFF]

Im running 38" TSLs with approx 2" lift in the springs,2" body lift and the front axle forward approx 3" and the tyres dont touch at all on full compression.

[ausyota]

Ruff how legal is it to tub the front firewall? Is it classed as structural or not?
Paul.

[crowy]

[quote="ausyota"]Ruff how legal is it to tub the front firewall? Is it classed as structural or not?
Paul.[/quote]

nothing is legal any more

[lil86]

hey can u give me an idea of time an costs of such a mod?? is a DOT really gona notice u tubbed the firewall wen you're inches over the legal height and running at least 35's. hehe

[RUFF]

It took me and Sam maybe 1hr on each side but the cab was totaly bare and removed from the frame. As for costs i wouldnt know what you could get charged. And i doubt someone else could do it in an hour when the body is still complete.

[Hybrid]

This is what I did today. I had a fair bit of rust to cut out of the footwell so I tubbed it at the same time. I didnt want to cut into the body mounts as ruff had becasue I didnt know how badly they were rusted. As a result Tony would a have couple more inches clearance by the looks of it.

This took me a bit over 3 hours but I had alot of rust to clean up. Most of the time spent was stripping the number of metal skins of the rusted mounts.

John

[bubs]

hybrid - what did you use to cut out your inner guards

[Hybrid]

I mainly used a jigsaw and a grinder with a cutting disk. But on the lip where the gaurd joins I used Beebees sabre saw (sawzall). I didnt find I had as much control of the sabre so I tried to use the other tools as much as possible.

John