Eric's Supercharged Shit-box

Well I finally able to use the winch. It is slow, but it worked great! Did exactly what it needed no problems. I'd recommend it, if you don't mind it's speed it's great. Free spools smoothly too.

Me too

Anywho, I was able to get some major wheeling done over Labor day! Not many problems really. I had the steering shaft slide out of my u-joint at my orbital... Mark had the same issue on his truck... Not sure what happened. Probably just excessive vibration and didn't check it ever for tightness; easy fix.



My biggest problem I have is that I BENT a leaf spring on the driver front leaf... Not really sure how, but pretty sure the leaf is trashed... Not too happy about it and hopefully Davez offroad can help me out on this. I beat the shit out of my Marlin Crawler springs and never had any issues with them bending like this.



Front diff has a slight leak



Got some new body damage...Finally dented my passenger side.... I think I can pop it out though. I gotta keep one side clean!!!



Anywho, pictures.

 

So... Mark and I finally got to tackle the leaf spring project on my truck. The leaf springs were set on the axle at 36" wide... Well we all know they should be 31.5" (ideally) but, of course the jackass who built this truck initially... well yeah.

We had to move the leafs inward to allow for me to turn since my tires were the limiting factor by hitting the leafs.

Here is our jig we set up to make sure the leafs are straight..



Before we set up the springs I had to straighten my leaf spring that I bent... we put it in a 20 ton press and left it over night.





Shackles tacked on







Marks welding... front leaf hangers



Welding the spring perches on



On and painted



Here is the shackle angle after the work... it's actually a little flatter... This is where we ran into a problem... I thought the leaf springs were 47" long so I set my spring hanger eye to eye at 43". I had a 5" shackle so essentially the math works out correct and that they cannot flop back to the frame... Well they were 47.5" long and if you compress the spring all the way it causes the shackle to flop back. A simple fix will be to put a 6" shackle on it and it'll fix the issue. For the time being I will do that, but in order to fix it I need to move the front spring hanger forward .5" or 1".

 

Good to see that get done. It was much needed. Now bring it up here so I can mess around in the engine bay.

 

Yeah some day.. ugh.

Here is the new ride height.

 

Need flex pics plz...

 

Well it isn't much... But I am putting on some new fenders...again haha. I couldn't resist for $100 shipped for the pair. I also needed new corner lights that will be going on.

My last set of fenders I cut...WAY too much out of them and it makes the truck look like it has bro lean way more than it should.

Here are some shitty photos... I am also going to paint these this time...

 

Dibs on the old fenders!!

 

What are you going to do with my old fenders lol

 

I have my stock fenders someone could have. Guess that would mean I would have to actually go to Badlands when you guys are there though.

 

December 6 T4T

 

Just remembered that I'm supposed to cover for someone at work on the 6th. Scheduled it like a month ago.

 

Shit just doesn't work out for us lol

 

You need to come!! It's a decent time out there, and it's for the kids

Just fucking quit don't be a pussy... Have someone cover your cover haha

 

Should be able to do it as long as there isn't to much snow in the forecast. Ill will talk to some of my buddies and see who else can go.

 

SNOW IS THE BEST PART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

But it makes it hard to get away if you plow and even harder if the plow truck is the tow rig. My buddy mike will be in with his 4runner. I'm not sure if I am going to bring my jeep or ride with him.

 

Oh I guess that is true. I didn't know you plowed the snow.

 

I don't but most of my friends do. No big deal just means I can't use any of their trucks and will have to tow with my van. If there is alot of snow I will tow mike's 4runner and he can sleep on the ride then go back to plowing when we get back.

Its one of those deals where a buddy plows and has some large accounts so all the friends think its cool and put plows on there trucks and help. Plowed some when I was younger and never really enjoyed 4 am plowing parking lots.

 

Well here is some comparison of the fender shots I took.





Here is a shot of them right now



Did some wheeling this weekend too. Just some small flexes



And now for the monster flex lawl. I had about 2" of down travel and about 2" of uptravel left on the other side... And the rear wasn't doing much. Not the best spot to flex but it's the only good one I had.