Windigo build thread

A little bit more done today
Cleaned inspected and painted some axle u joints.
Surprisingly excellent condition after all these years.

 

cap threads and spindle studs and wheel studs all 1/2-20 thread
Cleaned up threads. Installed some races and painted housing

 

Hopefully by next week I can finish this.

 

Thanks but honestly it's about a 7 right now still lots to do. Plan is to be finished by next week.
( Just jinxed myself)

 

Do you have an idea when your gunna be doing the swap? Leafs front and rear?

 

swap I'll start this coming May is my guess, and yes I'll stick with the 1st gen tundra leafs that are on there now and I'll mock up and maybe use if it can hold the weight, my old set up which is yj leafs up front.

 

Yeah everything always takes longer. Feel that. I’m almost done with my Chevy 63 swap. Maybe only have 15 hours into it but over the course of a couple months. That part sucks

 

Time, is our ultimate enemy. well it can be over come with money. Just drop off your truck somewhere and say, do this , this and this please.. I'm sure we'd all love to do that but $ the greenbacks don't come easy..

 

It’s always so worth it. My swap I did over 3 days and I think it turned out pretty good. I would go a little further forward with the rear hangers to get a lower shackle angle but it still rides as goood as before.

Gotta build my flatbed to get full potential out of it though. Mounting the shocks to the bed

 

excited to see this..

 

There's a whole lot more pieces that I have to gather up. Brake lines, brackets etc. But at least they're pretty much done.

 

Colour combo is pretty awesome!

 

Your too kind awesome would have been black.
But paint sitting in my garage another 20 years not happening. Anyway on to the next pieces.

 

Feel ya. Once it’s covered in mud and dirt it will be close enough to black!

 

2 more pieces of the puzzle cleaned up

 

That’s a 205?

 

Nope Dana 300.
I can't lift a 205. I tried.

 

lol they are pretty beefy. Can do a true twin stick on the 300 which is nice. How does the case compare to the fj case? Assuming it’s much beefier but overall size wise, you won’t have too much to cut out?

 

I'm not going to know until the eco crawler shows up. Hoping its going to be close but either way I'll need new driveshafts and since its going to be passenger side drop hoping not to run into too much issues.