Roxanne SAS and BS

Shock hoops welded, need to gusset them. Stripped a power steering part so I'll have to get a new one, hopefully that'll be cheap.

 

Leaf Spring SAS? You mean the lazy SAS

jk looks good!

 

Now it's a waiting game.

Ran out of welding wire. So close to being done welding too.

Wait for regear of rear diff.

 

Got love running out of wire lol I've been there before. What are you regearing too?

 

Front diff is 5.29, rear is pulled in the back of my company car right now, about to be 5.29. Gonna drop that off at the shop tomorrow morning.

 

I was so mad, I only have maybe 15 minutes more of welding...

 

Haha! I got my knuckle balls half welded on today and ran out of wire.... 7mins after after all the hardware stores closed! Never thought i would say this but thank god for walmart, they had 1lb spools of flux core and i was able to weld the balls back on and some other stuff.

I feel your pain lol

 

Yeah I thought about running to Lowes, but just bought some gear oil and filled the front diff instead.

 

Here's some pics of the truck I mentioned the other day.

 

such a tease!

 

Never gonna finish this trash pile...

Any hints on how to get the transfer case front shaft out to replace a leaking seal? Ain't having any luck yet.


Some pics of work tonight.

It's horribly swuating right now but these 63's should give me some decent lift.

 

Is it just the front output shaft that's leaking (where the front driveshaft connects)? All you have to do is remove the nut and flange from the shaft and pull the old seal and install the new one. No need to pull any shafts.

 

Yeah, I didn't word that all that well... Removing the nut was my problem. I tried using a breaker bar in between the studs to lock the shaft so I could turn the nut AFTER I tried using a breaker bar in 4lo and almost ran the truck over myself. Soaked the whole thing in PB Blaster and tried the impact on day 2 and it came right off on the second try. All replaced and good to go now.

Unfortunately, I'm making slow progress it seems.
Last night I cleaned up the Chevy 63's and painted them. Tonight I am hoping to tack the spring hangers in and check for lift, shackle angle and the lot. Getting the old Chevy bushing out of the spring eyes was a chore, once I found the perfectly sized drill bit those came right out though.

And Tapatalk doesn't seem to be working for me... Not sure why?

 

No more tapatalk support for TW.

They were doing some shady shit I guess and tcBob said screw it.

He's currently making an app I believe

 

Well that works for me, hope the app comes soon. Otherwise I'm stuck to checking once or twice a day.

Tiny spare will probably never see the underside of the truck again.


Did this for the rear shackle hangers. I will clean it up tomorrow and *MAYBE* even tack the rear suspension in.

Toughing it out while grinding leads to arms burning now... Bad idea. Wear long sleeve at least!


And this is so whack, saw right after lunch.

 

Boring update, the front suspension is done, rear springs are done (need paint), gotta fill the T-Case with oil, then remove stock transmission T-Case and replace with Trail Gear one so I can install my front driveline. Then throw some bump stops in. Then I can wheel her!

This weekend I (with Ray's help) couldprobably get most of that done but its our 1 year anniversary! So... gotta do something with the wife.

 

Got her up and driving! Still need to swap out the front crossmember and install front driveline and rear shocks are the big ones.

 

Nice job! Looks real good.

 

Sickkkk!