Squeaky Penguin's (Trip Reports) Build Thread

Nice work.

 

Looks great, Brett! Now you've planted some ideas in my head.





Welds turned out much better as well

 

Dual looks great! Very clean.

 

Who did those welds for you?

 

Me that kid isn't that good.

 

How was getting the old bushings out? I just ordered some new ones for mine.

 

Pretty easy. Tried tapping them out against the inside lip with a punch first and they didn't budge. Cut a slot in them with the sawsall, and the basically fell out.

 

Cool, that's what I was thinking as well.

 

Also, why the switch? Reduce leverage on the arms(s)?

 

Exactly. Old bushings were absolutely shot. Was getting worried about something hitting the back glass on my topper there at the end.

This way I'll be much more confident in having the tire and 10 gallons of gas on there.

 

Mine isn't moving that much to worry about it hitting the window, but it certainly isn't tight. Still undecided if I want to add anything on the driver side, or just make a gas can holder that bolts into the spot where the CO2 is for longer trips and bum air as needed May go with a bigger ARB when I do the regear.

 

I meet future Brett. Please to meet you.

 

So my rear shock finally took a shit so I've started to do some research on redoing my whole rear and found this thread Kind of what I was getting at a few weeks ago.

This also popped up Not sure why it's only a 10" shock. Looks like there is more room in the wheel well to extend the mount. Maybe at extreme flexing the angle the compressed tire is will hit the shock.

 

Here's a quick pic, real world gap would probably be less with the bump compressing etc:

2017-03-20_07-42-10 by brettbjorgum, on Flickr


I might be able to fit a 2.0 if I angle in way far forward, whereas I would loose dampening due to the angle. I'll be keeping the 10" shocks vertical just inboard of the frame.

 

I think I have room

 

That picture was taken at full flex. Keep in mind the top edge of the tire will move closer to the frame as the axle articulates.

 

Proportioning valve in. In the front I used a union between the two hard lines. Might change this up to Old Brett's setup and just bend the hard line coming down so it goes straight to the soft line.

IMAG0221 by brettbjorgum, on Flickr

Valve is mounted on my frame plates. Just had to give a nice big bend to the main line in to get it to line up, and pick up two more unions. Will pick something up to support the line where it goes over the crossmember.

IMAG0222 by brettbjorgum, on Flickr

 

What made you not want to put it by the booster?

or do you just like crawling up under the truck in the dirt