cheapest ones I found were at Crawltech
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cheapest ones I found were at Crawltech
why not just use something like shock bushing sleeves for a 3/4" bolt? same principle and there's not really that much stress on the spacer/washer itself. cut to fit. http://www.texasoffroad.net/albums/l...r_of_david.jpg
I will try the shock bushings, they would work temporarily until i find out which ones would be the best, good idea! Thanks!
For mounting the rear shackle hanger i thought of cutting a notch out of the bottom of the frame and welding in a peice of c channel iron to have the mount recessed up into the frame thus reducing the amount of drop the front would have to be? I saw this on another s10 but am wondering the strength it has. Will try to find pic and post it.
Heres the shackle idea i had but with regular plate shackles. And cleaned up a bit. Do you think this would be strong enough?
that looks like it would be plenty strong, especially with the pieces of plate inside it to mount the shackle too, but i would be leery of the frame bending once you cut the piece out. make sure you have the majority of the weight on both sides of the cut supported on jackstands.
Ok here we go, got the rear end put in and drivin, went together suprisingly easy without any problems so i started on the front end tonight, pretty much just had time to get rid of all torsion stuff and a arms tomorrow will do the rest and start measurin everything up. Posted a couple of pics...
44044s?
Eggsellent. :cheers:
yeah theyre 44044s got a pretty good deal on them through 4wpw. 210 delivered.
its scary how much that thing looks like nutz pile o' crap at 1st glance. hope you're up to finishing before this thread hits 30 pages, since that seems to be the standard everyone tries NOT to beat.
looks good tho. i like how shiny everything is. mine was that way once.
I think you need some bigger/taller jack stands. Those things look scary. looks like you're making some progress....And please finish this by page ten. I don't want to see pics and engineering drawings of the bolts you bought to attach your new antennae.
that stuff looks great! (and fun)
what size tires are you working around?
ok heres todays accomplishments, (not much), got most of the ifs mounts removed off the truck and made the sping perches for the front axle and bolted everything to axle spring wise. Slid it under truck to see where everything will be sittin. Tomorrow will try to weld everything up and have it rollin at least. Looks as though its gonna sit pretty tall hoping not too tall, i see now the 36's will be no problem, just hope it all settles down and rides a bit lower than what it looks like it will.
Slow down damnit. You're making me look slow.
With 44044s it's going to ride really tall, because mine does. If you have a body lift you will need to take it off.
In edit: You do have a body lift, so take it off. It will be the second best thing you ever did to your truck, after putting the axle on.
damn....those rims are...
...about as bling as the wheels you started off with. :flipoff2:
I'll have to dig up a pic of those when I get home...