This entry has several days of updates but it ends with a bang. The frame is right side up, springs are installed, motor trans and tcase are installed. Axles are under the rig with a fresh rebuild :) and I put the 35's on it for now.
Cut some plates with the plasma for new homemade motormounts. (yes solid for now. If it causes issues I will put a rubber bushing between the mount and the motor.)
Welded up.
Motor Mounts installed.
Transmission mounted again.
Front axle built up :) This took much longer than I expected.
Specs are
- Trail-gear gusset
- BTF cover
- Trail-gear inspection kit
- Trail-gear High-Steer
- Trail-gear Hydro Assist
- Aussie Locker
- 4.56 Gears
- Rock rings
- Back plate Elimiators
- Solid Stock steering stops.
- Longfield Super 30's
- Trail-gear drive flanges.
Rear Axle Specs
- Poly Performance Chromo shafts
- Homemaid Disc brake conversion
- Chevy 1500 Rotors I turned out on the lathe
- Malibue calipers
- Aussie Locker
- 4.56 Gears
- BTF diff cover
- Trail-gear traction bar bracket
- New spring perches
- Trail-gear inspection kit.
Trail-gear inspection cover on the rear axle.
Spring perches welded on.
Gonna cut some solid mounts to hold some Shackles on the axle for the winches to pull on.
One of these got welded to the top of the diff on the rear axle. The other will go somewhere on the front axle once I figure out where the axle sits versus the stearing and the winch.
Springs installed. These are Trail-gear 5" springs with 2 springs from each pack removed per trail-gears instructions.
Front axle going under it. (heavy little buggers all built up.)
Testing the fit. I had to clearance the BTF cover a tad more for the Ubolt to line up with the plate.
I have some front pinion angle work to do. Sits at 12* right now. I have some 7* steel shims that I'm gonna throw on to see how that helps. Right now I would be binding yokes like crazy I think.
Rear axle going under. (Still needs paint)
Top view. I grabbed a shock to see how I'm gonna mount it :) Probably will mount it on the leaf spring plate to the rear seat tube.
Rear Disk brakes
Tires installed and its sitting on its own!
Front Approach angle with 35's. The 37's should make it better.
That's it for now. These springs are gonna be very flexy I think. I could easily get the front and rear to move down several inches with my 250lbs of weight.
I hope to keep building from the ground up by doing the traction bar (thinking slip joint), shocks, bump stops and tie in the chassis for good next. I have a full day saturday and alot of time sunday so maybe I can get most of that done by this weekend.
Thanks for looking.