trucks on the road!

I see the odd custom mazda in Southern BC. Tonight I saw a lowered mazda, so I had to pass everybody just so I could drive next to it.
I live in Abbotsford, so we still have to get that Coquitlam meet up and runnin'.

Love the truck bro looks sick! Most mazdas that i see in the lower mainland are all driven by old grampas lol but actually the other day another b2200 pulled up beside me at a red light and this guy had a crazy lift on his truck with 30 some inch tires and starts revin his motor at me so of course i had to race him and i actually won, go figure. But i thought it was pretty cool, a crazy lifted mazda vs a low dropped mazda

ive seen a video of this truck on youtube flipping the switches.





-justin

matteo
that's a guy i know named colin
apparently has all toyota gear underneath it, with the mazda body

he has a body dropped and bagged b2200 aswell, but it's for sale or something


i've been having problems with a bunch of stuff on the truck lately,

to many problems, not enough $$$

What problems?

Well,

The past few days we've had some snow, so I had it parked up at my brother's house. The day I finally brought it back onto the road, my brother had tried tuning up the choke on the carburetor, but the choke is disconnected right now.

But last night, driving around, the carburetor was icing up because the stock fan blows so much cold air onto it, I need to get an electric fan.

The gas tank is leaking slowly, I'm pretty sure its around the seam, or most likely at the top around the seam of the sending units bracket where the 8 little bolts are.

My driver side wiper arm is messed up, either the knuckle is messed up, or the whole linkage is screwed up, It will go, but it's really sloppy, and then sometimes it won't go up, but the passenger one will.

Also, my digital controller for the airbags just shut off and won't turn back on when I turn the truck on, so the trucks stuck at a static height, yet before I parked it at my brother's house, it was fine.

My transmission's 3rd gear is screwed, I need a new trans.

Just lots of stuff, my interior is slowly going to get replaced with gray parts instead of the tan.

I need to take the tanneau cover off for a bit to get my fuel cell in.

When you guys mount a fuel cell in the back of the box, do you just drill the 4 holes through the box, and bolt directly to the floor, or does anybody use some flat bar between each side to help brace it down to the floor and a little off of the actual box itself?

. . that's like where the bolts would be, but instead
. . you put bars like this--->
| | underneath the box, with the bolts going through the box, and the bar and then snug them all together?

Damn man, You think maybe your brother was tinkering with it? That would suck, If your tank is leaking it probably isnt from the top unless you have a full tank all the time, Did you check voltage at the height controller? maybe a blown fuse?? My wipers are stupid too, Havent used them in the rain cuz I only have driven my truck 3 times since I bought it , Your 3rd gear is toast? or grinds going in, if it grinds going in it might just be a syncro which are cheap and easy to replace.. I would either brace the tank or use a bar underneath at LEAST a washer on either end, Nothng worse than having your bolt hole wash out and your cell start raoming freely through your bed good luck man, seems like some simple fixes... you have an external switchbox no? couldnt you use the box to lift and lower as an override to the controller? I dont have a controller nor have I ever used one so I dont know..?

I have yet to do this but i would re enforce the mounting, instead of relying on the sheet metal in the bed, if thats what you mean, I 'd make a crossmember to support the weight underneath. too

That's kind of what I meant.

The bars running underneath the bed would help distribute the weight on the floor bed. I can't really make a cross member myself, as I don't have the shop to do it properly.

It will be getting mounted up near the cab side of the box, not near the tail gate. I weigh 120lbs and I can stand in the back of the box just fine with the bridge cut out there and the floor doesn't flex at all. My brother, 185lbs, when he steps close to the bridge cut out it flexes a bit, so I think it should be fine?

You would be fine without a crossmember, No worries