Jons dcsb mid travel build and b.s

Good looking truck so far man. Can't wait to see the finished product.

 

Looking good, not looking forward to cutting my rear when I get a hc bumper

 

Just do it on a mod day I'm sure there is a couple of us that can help ya. I bought a die grinder to do it with and it was a solid choice. I can't imagine doing it with a 4" cut off wheel lol

 

Thanks man! Yea I work Out of Roseville but live up north towards Chico out in rice country.

 

Got around to getting the remaining skids mounted as well as the rear leafs last night and this morning. My rear shocks are still on back order, so in the mean time I will have to run the oem shocks at around 2" of lift. It will be fine for the next couple weeks for just driving around town but definitely no wheeling until the kings get here. I didn't want the full 2.75" of lift out of the dakars as I will be installing a shackle flip kit soon and that will net me around 3/4". So after some reading and asking around I decided to remove the third leaf down rather than remove the overload. Removing this leaf netted me around 2" of lift. I know the leafs will settle a little bit but all said and done I should be between 2.25-2.5" of lift on the rear. Now onto the pics
Third leaf removed

I installed the all pro flip kit but wanted to keep my oem bump stops for the time being until I decide what I want to upgrade to. It was pretty easy to fit the oem bumps to the all pro flip kit. The flip kit comes tapped for a couple different bumpstop kits on the market so all that was needed was to drill my oem bumps and then mount with 3/8ths hardware. The below pic is before I tightened the bumpstop down. I had to slide it over and center it once on to clear the U bolt hardware but all hardware did clear!

Here it is all mounted up also trimmed the exhaust
Once I got the lift components on I went ahead and finished installing the skids. Really happy with all of the @Pelfreybilt built products. Really well built and all very straight forward to install.

After getting the amor installed I had some down time while waiting for my alignment appointment. So I went ahead and pulled the rear decals. I removed the bedside decals as well as the tailgate decals. Really cleaned up the rear end IMO.

Alignment went well I purchased the lifetime alignment through firestone. Figured for $150 it was a worthwhile investment. Here is a shot I took on the way home. Pretty happy with how the truck is turning out.


Now I just have to wait for more parts to come in. B.A.M.F relocation kit and cab chop plates came in this week along with the extended rear brake lines. Rear shocks should be in early January, SCS wheels should be on by late January early February and tires shortly there after.

 

Looking great!

 

No more progress yet but did take it out with some other members yesterday! Front feels so nice off-road can't wait to get the rear finished. Didn't get any shots of my rig but here is a couple from the day

 

Just got the tracking info for the rear kings. Hoping they arrive by Saturday so I can get them mounted Sunday! B.A.M.F kit needs to be welded and mounted but I've been waiting for the shocks to do so obviously

 

Time for some relocated 12s! Shocks won't be in until tomorrow but prep can start today

 

Old mount is off time for the driver side.

 

Both sides and axle are prepped. Kings should be in tomorrow and I can start putting the buckets together. Also ordered mtrs yesterday and since I'm impatient for the wheels I also ordered 4 1.25" spidertrax spacers. I figure I'll need them to clear the rear shocks once I go to 315s anyways. So not a total waste but I need tires bad and rims won't be ready until February.

Also if anyone is thinking about doing this definitely just go ahead and remove the bed. Made life soo much easier than trying to just lift one side at a time and get behind the factory mounts.

All prepped and ready for the kings!

 

Great work so far!

 

How did you remove the bed? How hard is it?
I like the progress, truck is lookin' good.

 

Thanks man. To removed the bed you have 6 torx bolts in the bed. Remove from the top and then unplug both tail lights, back up camera, and the 120 outlet. Then with my wife and a buddy lifted it right off. Oh and unscrew the gas cap. If I had removed the tailgate I could have easily done it with just my wife.

 

That's sounds pretty easy, especially since I don't have a backup camera or 120. I'll definitely remove the tailgate. This is to (hopefully) paint the truck.
Thanks!

 

So these showed up today!


Ate dinner and then got to welding. I got the drivers side B.A.M.F mount tacked up and did a dry fit. Just need to burn it all in now and then mount to the frame.

 

One side has some crap welds and is burned in lol

 

And both sides are now burned in. Tomorrow night I'm hoping I have enough day light to prep the frame and axle. Then hopefully Thursday I have enough day light to tack them up. Will burn them in as well as do the cab mount chops and rear brake lines all on Friday.


Oh and these showed up today from ruff stuff specialties

 

Passenger side is tacked I have 0-1 degree side to side with 9-10 degrees front to back. 3.5" of up travel with where it sits on the axle. Need to get some bumps ordered! Gonna space ten port but will order bumps this weekend

 

drove it down the street and through some bumps with it tacked came back and in conjunction with advice from other members decided it need more up travel on the shocks. So I clicked the lower mounts down and now have 4 and 7/8ths of up travel. I'll burn it all in tomorrow.