NwiFAB what's in the garage now?

Sent you a message about some work for a potential 4WD Conversion for my truck. Please let me know what you think.

 

Still waiting for rears to be built and finish painting the leafs and then I'll be in the garage

 

Sorry been pretty busy with work lately. PM sent.

Sounds good. Got your text the other day, I was down in KY, let me put something together for you and I will shoot you a message. I need to look at a calender too, lol.

 

Perfect. The shocks are coming in next week so we just have to figure out a date. I have police exams during the middle of June on those 3 Saturday's 4,18,25 but other than that I just need about a week in advance to take off Saturday since I normally work

 

Here's what's in the garage now...

 

*tear* it's.....beautiful

 

Theres actual work goign on wayyy in the back lol

 

The sad thing is theres still two on the truck and the spare still in the bed...

 

that's a lot of rubber...

 

Was wondering when someone would say it..

 

Thanks, I replied to your PM, I think I am going to move forward on this project and wanted to get your opinion on the best way to do this to minimize any down time.

 

Me. I'm in the garage now.

 

Well I guess this thread is do for an update, I suck at keeping threads up to date, lol

Garsha91 came down a few weekends ago for his long awaited 63 swap. Never tackled this before other than mine, so getting it done in the time "alotted" meant we had to stay busy. Oh and did I mention this is a 2015! And true to form, I took next to zero pictures, maybe he will chime in with some more. Here's where we ended up after friday night:



And here's where we ended after saturday night, lol



He did come back on his way to the Badlands last weekend and got some bumpstops sorted out too

 

Also had a local kid come with his Chevy that had broken and bent/mangled safety chain loops on the hitch. I backed them up with a 5lb sledge and worked them with a 3 lb ball pein hammer back into shape. Took a slice out of the broken one (metal stretched) and welded it up. Again my picture skills are lacking, here's the finished product:

 

Don't worry I did take photos and I'll post them in a bit.

 

Well. For those of you who DONT know. I went to @NwiTACO house this past Friday and Saturday for the Chevy 63 swap

Disassembly began as soon as I got there. Yes. I know. Green. Move on.


Here's the old leafs


Everything is off


Protecting everything important


Got everything set up and organized because mark was cutting and I needed to keep myself busy


Plasma cutting old shock mounts


Started to clean everything up while he worked on the other side


Cut off the lower shock mounts


Saturday morning started fabbing the kits from BAMF and ruffstuff


Finally painted them black because I didn't like the green or how they looked beforehand


Fabbing the hanger mounts


Making sure we lines everything up correctly


Now time to mark where hangers and mounts are going to go


Tack welded the front mount


Tacked the hanger mounts


Finished welding the front mount


For those unaware these are plug welds. We did this right next to the gas tank so we didn't have to take it off or worry about it catching on fire


Engineers painting rack


Shock relocation mount all welded and painted


Almost done. King shocks in


Day time with everything back together


Bonerific

 

Yup ashlee's growing up quick. She's got a nice of headlights already

 

Hopefully I will take some pictures of what I'm doing to my truck...now that IT'S finally in the garage, lol