1st Gen on 37's, Long Travel. Completion Date: TBD

Axle going in

 

Not great progress today.
Pinion set and ready to be cycled again and brake line sourced

 

Moving along nicely.

 

Should have bed cage all tacked together tomorrow, looking like I’ll bump it 1”ish below the frame. The leafs look odd when pushed up higher

 

Man you're flying through this. Change your mind on putting the bed back on or staying bedless -either way it's looking awesome. Two thumbs up!

 

Much Appreciated! Bed is staying off; i has too many holes in it already and cutting away for the bumps shocks, etc it will just cave on itself.

 

Bumps ready for install, shocks going in tomorrow

 

Upper shock mounts didn’t cooperate. Shocks wanted to layover at 30+deg to not hit the mounts, so time to do something custom

 

Did you make those spring mounts yourself?

 

The axle perches or the frame side mounts?

 

Both

 

Cage is ready for testing. Still needs diagonals added, but that will happen later

 

No neither giant 64 and perches from ruff stuff or somewhere similar

 

Good idea for not having the shocks hit the cage!

 

ya but they look a bit, well, huge. I think im going to have something cut and redo the upper mounts. Im happy with everything else so far.

 

Those perches don't look very strong is why I ask. One of the largest draw backs to the outboard mounts design is they introduce shear forces onto the perches so they need to be very beefy.

 

they are plenty beefy no need to worry

 

If the perches break i have bigger problems; their .25" thick

 

Ride height. About 10” of up travel and about 7” down.

The shock reservoir hoses hit the mounts...so I need to switch them for some 90deg ones I have laying around

And the parking brake cables don't just bolt in of course so i need to modify that too

 

IT lives. Brakes work, no parking brake yet but everything is happy!