Ok, well I pulled the oil pump and replaced it with the one from my 345 which was giving good pressure. I also shimmed it according to your instructions and roberts math with an extra .089 shim gives me a boost of about 10 psi. I would have done only .05 or so except that my spring was slightly collapsed at 2.18 inches. Anyways, I adjusted the bands and put on a new extra capacity trans pan. I have new guages for water, oil and volts that I'm gonna jimmyrig into place until I rebuild my dash. I also went through my prestolite dizzy and rebuilt/lubed it with my new pertronix unit. I figure whatthehell I May as well. I picked up some street fire plug wires and am going to make those up today. They were about twice the price of the generic accell wires but they are way sturdier and I'm hoping that I'll quit pulling the ends of the wires off every time I remove them from my plugs. Anyways, after all of this tune up stuff hopefully this thing will be running right!
ENGINE NOISE
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Holy cow! It runs great! So, as a classic example of "one thing leads to another" and IHOnly's "quadruple factor" (where you take the reasonable dollar amount for a fix and quadruple it). So, I figured it would take about a grand to get this thing really road worthy. I should have figured four grand.
Long story short, this thing has more power than my old engine, and so I gunned it going up a small hill and what happens??? Bye bye drivers side rear axle. Sheared it clean. Amazingly I caught this on film. So here's some pictures, and I will post a link on youtube when I have a minute. I was gonna tackle the steering next but I guess I'll be doing axles first. Anyone have a good set of Scout II Dana 44's?
I don't know if you can tell or not, but the axle was already cracked and was only holding on by about 1/4 of it's original thickness.
Either way I guess it'll be one more weekend before this things going good. On to the classifieds to find a set of axles. Now that I get to pick, what's the recommended gear ratio for a 304 w/ tf727 running 34-35's?
Here's the youtube link.
The noise is wind I think, the engine sounds pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8glyv1itqcu
Oh yeah, and now I get to learn how to do body work.
Long story short, this thing has more power than my old engine, and so I gunned it going up a small hill and what happens??? Bye bye drivers side rear axle. Sheared it clean. Amazingly I caught this on film. So here's some pictures, and I will post a link on youtube when I have a minute. I was gonna tackle the steering next but I guess I'll be doing axles first. Anyone have a good set of Scout II Dana 44's?
I don't know if you can tell or not, but the axle was already cracked and was only holding on by about 1/4 of it's original thickness.
Either way I guess it'll be one more weekend before this things going good. On to the classifieds to find a set of axles. Now that I get to pick, what's the recommended gear ratio for a 304 w/ tf727 running 34-35's?
Here's the youtube link.
The noise is wind I think, the engine sounds pretty good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8glyv1itqcu
Oh yeah, and now I get to learn how to do body work.
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The tag on the axle say's
46-13
3.54
I'm assuming 3.45 is the gear ratio? If so I guess that's what I need to find so that I match my front. Maybe I should just say screw it and do my SOA right now? I dunno. I can't afford new tires and an SOA would look pretty awesome with my 31's that I'm running now
46-13
3.54
I'm assuming 3.45 is the gear ratio? If so I guess that's what I need to find so that I match my front. Maybe I should just say screw it and do my SOA right now? I dunno. I can't afford new tires and an SOA would look pretty awesome with my 31's that I'm running now
Michael Mayben
IHPA Tech Moderator - Retired & No Longer Online
the tag on the axle say's
46-13
3.54
I'm assuming 3.45 is the gear ratio? If so I guess that's what I need to find so that I match my front. Maybe I should just say screw it and do my SOA right now? I dunno. I can't afford new tires and an SOA would look pretty awesome with my 31's that I'm running now
Trickledown won't end for at least another year ben! You have just got yore feet wet so far, but I admit you have had a harder time than most!
My opinion...that truck had an encounter sliding sideways with a curb at some point in the past! Prolly tore hell out of a wheel/tire and was replaced but they did not replace the axle shaft itself. That fresh motor didn't tweek that axle, it was already scruud! Or...it's possible axle bearing set was fried in the past and grossly overheated, that can damage the axle itself, they May have just pressed on a replacement bearing/seal.
Anyway...a 3.54 gear ratio (per your axle tag) is certainly a good one for all around use with the tires ya describe. Really all ya need is a replacement axle shaft which several folks around the forum have in volume...and Jeff has at the shop both in high end new stuff and prolly some good used also. And I bet the fwbeezs over in mexturd have some too.
You're saying 3.54 is a good gear ratio for 33-35" tires? That would be great if I don't have to do any gear changing! I already talked to Darren at ihonlynorth and he priced me up a set with all the bells and whistles... I just can't afford that much right now but I'm definitely inclined to find some way to do it, just to give them my support. Anyone have an axle you're looking to get rid of??? I'll post a quick thread in the wanted section.
Thanks
Thanks
Michael Mayben
IHPA Tech Moderator - Retired & No Longer Online
I misunderstood, I thought you wanted to retain the 31" tires!
For much more serious trail use I'd run 4.56 or at the minimum 4.10. Either of those will involve changing both carriers in your existing axles as the 3.54 carriers won't work for those gears.
I don't have any axles available myself, but they are readily available here in the northwest (sii applications). Several members around here have swapped their sii d44 axles for other stuff out of their trail rigs and have a set already set up with the lower gears.
Ok tell me what you think of this? I think it would work for an SOA but it's 5 on a 4.5 bolt pattern, I think that's Jeep and Ford? This looks like an axle that I saw in one of dcextremes builds a while back. It already has disc breaks. The guys at the yard said he'd give it to me for 300 including the driveline, which seems like it's in good condition. I think it's a Ford 9".
The measurement is center of rotor to center of rotor.
The measurement is center of rotor to center of rotor.
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Scoutboy74
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Dam ben! Be glad you weren't rolling at 65-70 when that let loose. Those usually end very badly.
Honestly I'm more pissed off about the body work that I have to do than anything. The body on this truck was so straight.... Now I have to really bend some metal. Owell. And don't get me wrong, I'm counting my blessings. I'm glad I decided to drive the truck to work as a test of it's reliability before I had my wife start driving it and boy am I glad that didn't happen to her!
Any of the fatwhiteboys have an axle laying around?
Any of the fatwhiteboys have an axle laying around?
dkminors
Member
I don't know where you are, but I believe there are a couple of axles on a Scout II down at the pick-n-pull In san jose.
Scoutboy74
Moderator
I'll ask scott sinner if he has any. He'd be the only one here in fwb-ville.
Scoutboy74
Moderator
Sheeyit man! You don't want hooty's fubared crap. Jerry glued them sumbitches together with chawd nicorrette and elmers.
so maybe I'll be able to get this thing going this weekend after all.For the third time in as many weeks... She lives! After replacing the axle I was having problems with the throttle cable, so it's now replaced as well. I'm going to do all of the steering stuff next.
Thanks again guys. It's running great and I even took it up the steep hill! I need to get the gears lower and adjust the kickdown better... After that and the steering issues are solved it'll be time for the SOA and all of the body work! That's what I'm really stoked about!
I guess I'll keep posting progress on the rest of this build as I go... Thanks again guys!
Thanks again guys. It's running great and I even took it up the steep hill! I need to get the gears lower and adjust the kickdown better... After that and the steering issues are solved it'll be time for the SOA and all of the body work! That's what I'm really stoked about!
I guess I'll keep posting progress on the rest of this build as I go... Thanks again guys!
I was wanting to update you all on the status of the build. It's going well! I ordered up some tie rod ends and new spring bushings and got them installed tonight. What a difference in the ride!! I wanted to share how I removed the old bushings since I have heard of people torching, cuting, sawsalling, and driving them out with air hammers...
I used my large pulley puller and a 7/8" socket with my 3/8"x1/2" adapter inside of it to center my puller. I just pressed the bushings out and then popped my socket out with a hammer and driver.
Here's a picture if you aren't getting it.
It made this job take about 3 hours.
I used my large pulley puller and a 7/8" socket with my 3/8"x1/2" adapter inside of it to center my puller. I just pressed the bushings out and then popped my socket out with a hammer and driver.
Here's a picture if you aren't getting it.
It made this job take about 3 hours.
