Night Eagle's kind of a build thread

Well in the world of maintenance of my truck i always find something I will need to take care of soon. So today after work I did my spark plugs, serpentine belt and attempted to do my diffs and transfer case. Well I got everything do except my rear diff. Went to go pull the drain plug on the rear diff, but found that wheeling adventures has ground outer ring down to almost touching the plug. Unfortunately I did not have my dremel to cut it out so I will do that tomorrow. Oh and I found that my driver side CV boot has a tear in it, so that is fun. Now to decide if I want to just reboot it for now or do I want get some CVJ axles.

 

I did this to the truck today.

 

Let the parts collection start. Bed side stiffener arrived today. Shock tabs from ruff stuff have shipped, shocks shipped today and now just waiting for lower shock mounts from archive to ship out. Once that all arrives I can start fabricating and get the rear of my truck all squared away.

 

More parts have arrived today.

Ruff stuff shock tabs and they sent me a x-mas ornament.





Archive Garage lower shock mounts of pure beef.



Now just waiting on the expensive parts to show up.

 

Look what finally showed up after a lot of bs with ups

 

What’s with those lower rod ends? Never seen any like that.

 

Normal King welded rod end. Basically a COM10 race welded to the shaft. Makes replacing the shafts 30% more expensive and built to order only.

@Night Eagle Get some King shin guards or boots to keep the shafts from getting pitted as fast.

http://www.kingshocks.com/products/parts/2-5-smoothie-shaft-guard/

You will probably need a new shafts to run them.

 

I went with the welded rod ends to try and bring the lower mount up a little. I knew it would cost more to replace but I felt clearance is nice.

@TMFF are 2.0 and 2.5 shock shafts the same? It looks like the shaft guards will work with the welded rod ends.

 

Gotta check the lengths but both are 7/8 shafts. I just installed a set of the shin guards on some 2.5's and had to replace the rod end. They are retained by a small groove that's cut into the rod end and molded into the plastic. I have not need the welded version but I bet it has those provisions also.

 

So my weekend was supposed to involve the install of my new shocks but instead it involved this.

 

Dishwasher flood?

 

Yep it was my dishwasher. Had a meeting with insurance today and it sounds good. Its just going to be time consuming now. I have to call a flooring guy and a plumber tomorrow to start getting the repairs rolling.

 

Got a good portion of the shock relocate done today.




Fully ground off now.




This is just taced in place for now. Just need to fine tune the tube placement and then burn the uppers into place and figure out where to place the lower mounts.

 

Make sure you cycle the suspension and make sure the shocks stay tilted forward the whole time. They look very close to vertical in the pic

 

They are vertical right now, because they are just hanging for looks. Plan on tearing leaf packs apart tomorrow to cycle and find the lower shock mount loction.

 

Bro, do you even off-road? That is a sweet looking mall crawler!

 

Hey looks are all that matter. The only mall in my neck of the woods is the dump. We all call it the Milner mall.

 

I washed my GX470 so I fit in better with the Bozeman elites.

 

Poser...

 

Who’s got the bender and notcher, Brett?