Roxanne SAS and BS

Sub'd. Can't wait to see this thing done.

 

Angle grinder and a garage sale sawzall. It's been damn slow but I had two friends helping earlier. I'm beat though lol. Here's as far as I got on one side tonight.

 

Nice! Should have done the frame chop!!

 

Thought about it...

 

I only had to cut off the sway bar mounts and almost getting a face full of cut off wheel a few times doing that, I'm glad i went the frame chop route.

Flip side of that is making the fish plates with nothing but an angle grinder and a propane torch was a PITA.

 

Hell yeah!

 

@slander the sway bar brackets are the easy ones!

 

More Pics than anyone wants to see of grinding down IFS brackets. This is taking forever.

On the plus side, my shoulders are getting a great workout.

 

And that's why I'm glad i didnt have to mess with the rest of them!!

 

Replaced the oil pan last night, went pretty well but the new dipstick tube and I didn't get along. I really don't care for it. Really hoping nothing leaks.

Couple pics

 

Getting good and lazy but making progress again. Took a break Thursday cuz the wife wanted to do some things.

Body mount chop


New oil pan

Ray roasting himself in sparks. @Ghost.


Cutting for the shackles.

 

Getting closer... Maybe someday I'll drive this thing again.

 

I wish the springs were a little longer, but should be fine. Had to pull the front hanger a couple inches back to get a good enough shackle angle, but should work well enough when I burn it in.

 

I was gonna ask about that. I must be missing something cuz it looks like the shackles are angled like the complete wrong way in that last picture?

 

True. Without any weight on them they are "angled wrong" with some weight in them they are at about 90 degrees, which is optimum for these springs so that when they break in it will be at a more suitable shackle angle.

 

Apparently my neighbors have been complaining on Facebook about the grinding noises. Lol.

 

Just got back from Soldotna for work, now back to work on this.

 

Had to fix the creeper, went with some oversize tires cuz Toyota life.

 

Huge shoutout again to Ray @Ghost. for all his help and BSing when working on this pig.

I pulled the third member while Ray got working on the steering, we both made some good progress.

The rear axle is ready for the regeared third member to 5.29, once I can get that back...
Need to clean and paint almost everything, hopefully not too much longer before I can drive it.
Currently sitting at close to 6" or so of rake, front high. Definitely need to change out the rear end for the Chevy 63's and maybe even use some extra leaves or a block.