Harry Situations' Custom Tracker Rockcrawler

A Chevy Tracker isn't the first vehicle you think of when you picture a rockcrawler, but this one regularly embarrasses Jeeps and Toyotas that cost far more than this Tracker. Crafted by rockcrawling legend Jesse Haines, the goal of the Tracker was to be lightweight and ultra-capable; it is essentially a buggy with a Tracker body at this point. Samco Fabrication did all of the wiring and plumbing and CR Fabrication did the custom sheetmetal interior.

This video was made in conjunction with with All-Terrain Family.

[JustDave-ygc]

Hi Harry 👋
I've always loved this Tracker build, this is the first vehicle I seriously fell in "build dream" with, and the attention you two paid during the build process to keeping everything as light as possible, it's the reason I overthink adding light-ness constantly 😂
Stay safe and awesome Karma out to you and the family Sir

[kevinthomson]

This thing is what every samari, tracker, and jimny driver wishes they had. Awesome rig!

[techniciantrar]

dude that almost looks effortless in that ride. great job to all hands that created it. A good driver goes a long way as well haha.

[phuabnomhawjyaj]

Awesome Tracker you’ve got!
Here’s what I have on my 93 Suzuki Samurai 1.6L upgraded everything myself, and I don’t have a shop but love the outdoors off-roading so I build my little Samurai. I currently have 37” tires on and front axle was from an FJ60 9.5” diff 5.29:1 and rear axle from a 1994 FJ80 full float axle for the rear both with lock right locker. The leaf springs comes from an Isuzu Rodeo rear spring for both front and rear extended wheelbase 6” front and rear, 3” body lift, missing link shackles articulate above 14”, Ford shock mount for longer shocks for the front and rear, transmission from a 94 Suzuki Sidekick 4wd cut off transfer case chain and patched with aluminum plate upgrade to 4.24:1 ratio connected to the Samurai 6.5:1 transfer case. Power steering box from a 4runner 2nd generation Toyota high steer and connected to 07 Toyota Prius EPS really smooth turning the 37” tires. Made a custom bumper inner winch 9, 500LB winch, onboard air compressor conversion from tracker air condition into air pump. Home made rocks slider and roof racks with LED light great for night run, equip with Midland high frequency long rang radio MTX400 for long distance communication on the trail. Broke other axles before but with current axles from the FJ60 front and FJ80 full float rear it’s bomb proof DANA 60 for now. Crawl ratio should be around 540:1.

Next project will be a tracker similarity to yours, I think you got one of the badass small rig of all time. I know these small light weight rig are truly most capable than Jeep if build it right. I have friends with Jeeps and they punch through the trails with lots of horse power only to suffer breakdown. Hope to meet have see your rig sometime later in the future. Stay safe! Thanks

[Wildlandfirefighting]

Imagine having Jesse Haines build your rock crawler, WOW, that is very xool though, I love it, I think it will be in a museum one day😄

[wallacegordon]

Loved the tracker build, video, and narration! Was like the class was in session and as the owner of two trackers, this knowledge was like gold! Thanks!

[dandahermitseals]

I have the 87 Pioneer metric tonne 4 liter 6 Aisen tow pkg trannry trackok dana 44 live up rock crawler trails in the NE washington mountains.waaaay off grid on challenging trail. All 4x4 life up here. Mild mods. 4" lift 33s winch bumper etc. Daily driver all seasons.😅😅

[-A.n.d.r.e.w-]

Man I love the details in this build! Incredible engineering there!

[campbemj]

As an owner of 5 trackers (96, 01, 01, 02, 03) - this is the stuff of legend. Nice tracker!

[Mrwilder]

Few of my buddy's have trackers they are pretty amazing, caused me to buy my Sammi. You really should do some overlanding videos with smaller vehicles. Great channel 👍

[rockandroadxpartsaccesso]

Love what you've done to the tracker. Performs well. Great walk around. Enjoy!

[RallyNavigatorOnline]

Way Cool Harry! Hadn't seen your Tracker before. Looks sweet!

[johnbehneman]

GREAT VIDEO HARRY!!!! I READ ABOUT THE GEO TRACKER BUILD UP IN PETERSENS FOUR WHEEL AND OFF ROAD MAGAZINE!!!! WOW IT IS SO BAD ASS ON VIDEO!!!! TOTALLY AWSOME ENGIREERING AND FABRICATION SKILLS!!! I LOVE IT!!!! GREAT VIDEO!!! GREAT BUILD!!! THANKS FOR SHARING!!!

[davidcraft]

Thank you. the most important thing I learned from this is the genius idea of getting a 2wd and using a samurai tcase.

[jasonjohnson]

This thing is amazing. Jesse Haines blows me away with his work! Love the details Harry!

[isaac]

Thats a very sweet little tracker Harry thanks for show and tell

[gburtch]

followed your build from Jesse and the lightweight build, sure Jesse wanted you to get the Gen 1 not a gen 2 due to frame width.. love the rig Harry, coming from BC ZUks Canada

[benjamins]

I used to watch the rock crawling comps at camp rock, where the King of Hammers is held, this is one of the best crawlers I have ever seen, anyone aside from 100% handmade multi hundred thousand machines

[guylongley]

Awesome build. I'm a Samurai guy I take that thing in places I shouldn't be and the Jeep guy's are blown away. Can't wait for more videos. 😁😁

[DashnCars]

Hugely underrated rig and video. I'm a huuuuge fan of this build, I'm all about the odd ball builds. I was really interested to hear about the running gear set up. My build is a super weird one myself so this is a huge inspiration. Great build brother!