looks good. id grind the diamond plate flat under the bolt heads and nuts on the heim mounts. they'll load properly and tend to stay tight better.
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looks good. id grind the diamond plate flat under the bolt heads and nuts on the heim mounts. they'll load properly and tend to stay tight better.
yeah thats what i ahd planned to do when i get it back to my house john here is yesterdays work, the lower and upper trac bar mounts are done along with the gussets i made for them. tommy came over and welded some stuff for my last night , and i ower ryan big for helping me with all this stuff for the last week, its about 85 percent done, from a driveability stand point.
all i need to do is do the brake lines and bleed the brakes. then once its back at my house ill do my hydro assist tabs.
New pics start at picture 113
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The spiderweb gussets are klassy!
diamond plate...it's the redneck bling!
you gonna brace that frame-side trac-bar mount to the crossmember?
i dunno about bracing it, it isnt like on a ttb truck where the crossmember is right across from the trac bar. i probably will brace it somehow. the diamond plate looks like ass i agree, but it is what i had at the time last summer, i may grind some of the diamonds down, or take some light weight metal and weld over and kinda box the arm after the sleeve to get rid of it.
WEll its had tires on it and has been complete for a bout a week i have driven it twice, and it seems to bea lot more stable and tighter when driving it. i need to do lots of little things to it to get it completely finished
need to do:
set gears
grind diamonds off of brackets
finish cuting and install the inner frame braces
build a radius arm crossmember
sleeve and finish welding driver side arm
Re install hydro assist and weld tabs
change caster a little bit more
Hey Do You Have Any Extra Spring Shims?
seth i have some that i made from scratch, i may reuse them, if i dont ill sell them to you.
got the passengerside inner frame braces cut and installed today and it makes a big difference.
cool i will def need them. I have some bar stock, did you just take a grinder to them? would ordering leaf shims be easier? I def need them soon, springs are hitting tires ***
the springs hitting the tires has nothing to do with those shims seth. the shims correct coil bow front to back. you need to use some small u bolts in your upper buckets to correct that like i had mentioned to you before. also it isnt a bad idea to weld a piece of flat plate onto the bottom of the lower coil cup, as well as grinding the top of the radius arm where the lower coil mount sets, so that it is flat.
i was thinking of some kinda shim for the side to side as well instead of flat plate. i think I am gonna grind and flatten the cups too, might see what that does by itself.
do not grind down or beat the lower coil cup, you will mess it up more than help it, do like i said and weld a piece of plate to the bottom of it.
Also your adding a shim to the side will not work either, because that will mess up your shimming front to back. Also that is not the part of the coil that is making it bow outwards towards the tires. the reason for the bow is that with the soft springs plus having a litttle bit wider frame, makes the back side of the coil is not sit flush in the upper bucket. trust me this is how you fix both problems, i have fixed both of them so make it easy on yourself and do what i recommend to you.
Alright here is an update. me and cook aligned my shat the other day and i finished most of the little things, and the truck drives awesome. :gigem: Heck it drives almost like it did stock, which is a huge improvement from how it used to drive!
only problem it has now is when i get on the brakes hard at speed it seems to shimmy back and forth some, i am going to check the tightness on the wheels bearings.
Now i have bought and installed stock manifolds, and gotten rid of the nasty headers and exhaust that it had before.
So in my quest to get a y pipe, and single 3 in to an 80 series flowmaster,i have had hell. So i have the truck loaded up today after talking to the guy at rusty muffler, he told me just put the manifolds on and we will do the rest for around 250. So i load it up on the trailer and take it over there this morning. i get there and am taking the muffler out of the truck and goes where are the flanges for the manifolds? I tell him i dont have then, he replies neither do I.
So disgusted i ask, so can you find or order me a set of flanges, he then says with a serious face what do you want me to do Sh*t yo out a pair. then he made some comment about me being a silly college kid. At this point i threw my muffler back in my truck, and tolsd him well then you dont need my money either and left.
I called around to a few shops to find a place that had the flanges, in the end i found some at bryan muffler and performance. These guys kick ass, yes it is gonna cost me almost a hundred bucks more, but these guys know there shat and are very nice. The guy was like dont worry if we dont get it done today, cause of a broken pipe bending cylinder, but he said dont worry man ill keep it inside tonight so nobody messes with your bronco. Then me and him shot the **** about cams and motors and stuff for a while. So go to bryan muffler and performance if you want a good job done by nice people.
that's pretty funnyQuote:
Originally Posted by stx4wheeler
YOu did not own this vehicle when it was in "stock" form. It had been thoroughly mexicanized by the time you took posession :flipoff2:Quote:
Originally Posted by stx4wheeler
welded up the rear tonight, tomorrow i need to mess with the carb and replace the starter solenoid on my lunch break, oh and we are gonna be two wheelin skinny pedal machine tomorrow for the lack of time to set front gears.
That's a good way to break a shaft I have heard.
somebody told me that once too
im not to worried, of all the people running sterlings i have only heard of one breaking a shaft and he had 42's and doubler, plus i got spare shafts in the tool box so im not to worried.
You have been warned.
So where's this wheeling you're going to do?
(Govenata voice activate) I got de powa to make de panties drop from my fo sizty (Govenata voice deactivate) :flipoff2:
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its was a little 30 spline 60 that broke. however, if your engine can break that, the 460 should be able to break the mighty sterling.
try to come out of one of those creeks in 2wd frick. i dare you.
haha nothing to extremly wild, a few hill climbs and some little stuff. It at 47 pollock the same place that your rear died last time.
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and front d-shaft
No more front drive shaft breaking. I've solved the axle wrapping issues. Leaf springs are good for things like trailers, but even then I prefer torsion.
alright today i ditched the crappy e fan wiring that i previously had, and with some help from cook, and sharpe, and jordan finding the vatozone kit for a fan it is done, its adjustable turn on temp, and shuts down at 160, with two 30 amp relays wired in parrallel, and a manual override toggle switch, we also wired up my rock light as well.
got most of the big things done and took it to 47 today and it did pretty good, considering it hasnt been wheeled since clayton last year. i like having a locked front now as well. had one malfucntion that was on the list to be fixed before clayton and ran out of torch gas, other than that i am very pleased. Thanks to clarke for hleping me set the gears, and sharpe, danny, and asshat, for letting me use your driveway and back yard for the last weeks.
No problemo, it turned out to be a successful weekend here
its all ready to load on ole pete!
doors version 2.0
sado those even open?
right now they open, like a normal door, but i am not finished with them yet. The thing i like about these is they are made to where you can just jump right in,cause the bottom of the door is flat even with the floor of the truck even though it doesnt look like that.Quote:
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you are going to fall out
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and evidently you need to learn to read they are not done yet. :rolleyes:
Why run doors at all?
cause 1 i dont like the way it looks, and 2 there is a reason i am building new ones, since the old ones are smashed to hell, therefore i would like to have the added protection that doors give.
Kinda like running those door inserts that they have for eb's. Good idea.
and evidently you missed the humor in that he was talkin about you being a munchkin and all. :flipoff2:Quote:
Originally Posted by stx4wheeler
Well last time I checked Tate wasn't the biggest guy either...
The doors look good so far, I was thinking the same thing as Joseph about them looking like the e.b. and scout inserts.
I haven't wheeled or drank with tate so I don't know how big a boy he is.... Maby TCC???? Babey. :flipoff2:Quote:
Originally Posted by CheapJeep