The Ugly

shortened the rear about 18 ish inches to make the current wheel base 114.5. Still planning on lenthing the front 5-6 inches and maybe shorten even more. I did the shackle flip in the rear but not sure if completely happy, seems to me the the factory confirgeration would allow alot of down travel and to make up for this I put the shackle at a pretty good angle backward. hopefully get more done tomorrow and take some better pictures.

Also does any one have any u bolts for a 60? I need some that arn't set up for 8 inches of blocks.

Yeah!!!

awesome man, looks like you've been bokkin it with the project

done for the day, still alot that needs to be done.

current plans:
strip inside cab
weld up floors
motor and trans swap
tires
cage
put cab back to gether
and a bunch of other ****

I am confused about the gears I have. If I jack up a tire and spin it one complete revelution the pinion only spins about 1.8 times aroung. I dont think can have 1.8 to one gears. is there another way to tell what gears I have?

The real way to do it is take the diff cover off and look at the numbers and divide them.

Sure you're not including backlash?

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Originally Posted by Doug Krebs

The real way to do it is take the diff cover off and look at the numbers and divide them.

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thats next but I would have figured that you could just count the number of time the pinion spun to make the tire spin once.

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Originally Posted by BroncoJo

thats next but I would have figured that you could just count the number of time the pinion spun to make the tire spin once.

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I edited my post... Sure you're not including backlash?

I saw your first post and yes the backlash is not much. It has an open rear end I dont know if that makes a difference

On my bronco which has a detroit, I can spin through the backlash (locking the diff) then as the tires start to move I can spin the pinion 4.1 times to make the tires spin a complete revelution.

take the cover off and count, it is a good idea anyway since you will need to replace the fluids and make sure nothing is wrong witht he new truck anyway

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Originally Posted by colman

take the cover off and count, it is a good idea anyway since you will need to replace the fluids and make sure nothing is wrong witht he new truck anyway

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If you took the cover off, why would you count? Just look on the ring gear and divide 2 numbers.

If you are only spinning one tire and have an open diff the pinion will only rotate half of what you are expecting. You have 3.55 gears, or maybe 3.73.

I was wondering about that.

i meant find the 2 #'s and divide them, its been a long day. my bad

yeah that makes sence. spin both tires and count

cents, since, or sense? :flipoff2: