Scugly (for now anyway)

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Turns out my neighbor has a machine shop, and he helped me drill out my brake/clutch bracket to fit my shtuff.

Heres what I cam up with

I hadto drillout the clutch mc a 1/16th to fit the wilwood m/c

So I had about 4 hours this afternoon, and have to work all weekend. Here is a few pics of shtuff I have been tinkering with here and there.

A full day or more was spent chipping this tarry crap off. It came off easy enuf with a harbor freight air chisel.

Th white crap, seam sealer I imagine, is a pita to get off. I used an air hammer with as flat a blade as I had. It still sucked.

Here is the pass side, which I plan to cut and replace for extra leg room for the wife/kids.
Luckily the factory heat shield kept too much "glue" off the bottom, even though I am leaving it on this side till I cut it out.

Ended up with 4 piles, all bigger than this

The tub is ready for sand blasting, sheet metal work.new firewall and floors, and bed liner/insulation


also been working a little more on the rear links

I needed to raise the upper links as mentioned before. I plasma'd the bulk off, and the neighbor owns a machine shop with a nice 6" belt sander. That sander helped a lot. I plan to cut on the yellow line to clear the body. The piece on top is the middle factory body mount, which I will weld back onto the body, and use this piece as a upper link mount and body mount. Its cut from 3x5x3/16

Still just mocking and punching numbers through the calculator

 

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Minor progress in the rear link set up. Most things are tacked in place, and I think final. Still waiting for someone to tell me that my numbers look good.:d

I can not figure out how to make these damn screen shots bigger.

 

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A few more link pics.

I ended up lowering the tcase and raising the motor, soim at 5 degrees lean back now. I get 5" of droop at the pinion. Im just gonna live with it.

Im also gonna ditch the radius arms and 3 link the front.

Still need to cut the factory rear crossmember out, as the links hit. Was gonna wait till the coils were on to see how much up travel I will actually get though

Well, Christmas came early. The wife took the boys to oregon for 10 days, and I actually got two 3 day spats of working in the garage without interuption......so 72 plus man hours later I have accomplished the following.

Stripped the 60 of all the radius arm wedges,built a truss, cut a web (not pictured), tacked all brackets aside from the track bar and hydro assist, built a new upper link mount, etc, etc.



Upper link mount, I still need to weld the end and gring smooth, and then make an inner bracket to put it into 'double' shear.

Upper link mount and gusset to the top of the housing

1.75 188 wall truss, slightly angled down for clearance

Finger worth of clearance at ride height

New middle body mount

Rear mounts.

 

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Lowered the body down 1". The body is twisted up pretty bad, and the doors wont align, so that will require some work. The sill plates are at 33.5" now with a 24.5" belly height. Should be 6" up travel front. Oh, I also pulled the front stretch back 2" to a total of 4 front and 8 rear.

 

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Looks like flexing the front 3 link gives me what I need. Still lots of stuff on both sides, the lowers are hitting the old leaf mounts. Pinion angle appears pretty good through travel also, so its time to start burning things on for final.

 

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Glad we could motivate you!

We'll be down there again in a year, think it'll be done by then?

 

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Im hoping.