Fitting 35’s with minimal trimming NOW ADDING LONG TRAVEL AND 934 CV’s

I paid $4.19/gallon for regular yesterday

 

As the other comments mentioned, depends on your skill set, the availability of the right tools, etc.

I think of myself that I’m pretty comfortable with disassembly and assembly of automotive parts, but I lack the tools. Not going to lie I make what I have work as best I can without having to buy every specialty tool. Also I have no air tools.

I’m doing this in my driveway on jack stands,
I’ve completely removed and disassembled the front end components in about a days time. I think I spent about 2-3 hours per side at what I would call slow pace. Another 2-3 hours per side cutting off the existing LCA tabs and bump stops, grinding them down.

I plan to do some fitting this weekend of the lca kit, some cutting to fit the slide rack and 934s and fitting of the JD supplied gussets and fill plates. I’m not sure I’ll modify the steering rack yet. I may replace it still. It wouldn’t be the first time I’ve removed it, I’ve gotten faster at that too. It should go much quicker that all the other parts are not in the way.

I don’t weld, so I can’t comment on how long that portion takes. @81Trekker mentioned to me he does them in about 16 hours. Makes sense with the what he has available to himself and the repetition of doing them.


If you had your mind set to it, focused on this and only this, I could see this being a weekend project for a average joe with some decent tools.

I’m dragging mine out, I won’t get more than a few hours In at a time. The weekend is supposed to be my time to help with the baby since I’m at work all week while the wife deals with him. I’ve already gotten in trouble for interrupting nap times. The baby’s bedroom is next to the driveway and he won’t sleep with the grinder going full tilt

 

Where the fck in SD County are you paying that much for gas????

 

Del Mar

 

Sounds like you chose the wrong block to get gas

 

My new oem rack showed up today. Just waiting for my slide rack to be done and it’s all going on.

 

Yeah the real pain in the ass part is pieces of the govt is a mix of metric and US Standard. Super annoying.

 

San Antonio is great since I left Cali in January

 

Nice. CA is a failed state.

 

That's putting it nicely and the most PC way possible.

 

Whats happening with your truck? I remember watching the saga in like...2017? 18? anything new?

 

We aren't that low that's more like our reg lol

 

DAMN

bruh
it's $2/gal in other states
What The Fuck

 

Yeeeeeaaaaaaa, still better than Texas though

 

It was getting caged
Shop did a half ass unsafe incomplete welded cage
I took it back
Paid a IG popular shop to cut the cage out and prep it for a proper one.
It’s been sitting since.
Covid 2020 was a shit year for me and it kept kicking into 2021
Lost my house
Had some money stolen from me
So I did the only thing I could afford...
Leave California and relocate to somewhere else so I could afford to live and hunt for new employment or school.



it’s sitting on 40’s and will get a LS 454 when I can afford to start paying the fabricator money again.
Which at current junction...
Who knows

I can weld
And I can gunsmith
Both of which are jobs in jeopardy right now in America

 

Woah

 

F in chat for a fallen comrade

that's a sad looking truck (and story). sorry to hear that.

 

She will live again
Just gotta recoup

 

I paid $4.19 for regular in the valley yesterday.