Well its been a while since I updated this blog, busy life this past month or so. I did manage to peel off some time to make progress on the project. Biggest milestone is the engine is in the truck. This was my first time mounting an engine so I was really trying to take…
Pretty productive unproductive couple weeks, I know it sounds weird but feels like a lot of hurry up and wait happened. My cousin came over who is a way better welder than I, he spent about 6 hours in the shop final welding all the tack welded frame bits I had put together. I figured…
Still waiting on the motor and trans to show up, but from what I am told its being picked up today and should arrive at my place sometime next week. Super excited, I probably watched this demo start of the drive train a million times. This running pallet is coming from the guys over at…
Been waiting on the driveline to ship for a week now. I figured I could knock some of the small things off my list. One of the small things was a broken bottom hinge on the drivers door. I forgot to take pictures of the problem but basically the metal the hinge was mounted too…
Over the weekend I managed to weld on the front suspension cross member and get the front suspension bolted on. It all went fairly smoothly following the guidelines Scott’s Hodrods laid out. I didn’t bother to install the brakes at this time, I have to pull this apart later on to paint everything (frame and…
Most of the rear suspension is put together, just waiting on the coil overs to arrive. So in the mean time I decide to weld in some stand ins for them and move on to installing the front suspension. First task we getting the truck turned around, last time it was moved it was nothing…
I have been picking away at assembling the rear suspension over the last two weeks, half hour at a time makes for slow progress but I managed to get it all tack welded into place and assembled. I recorded a short video for you to check out, I wish I had more ways to test…
4 Link in the rear is making progress, managed to get the other side upper link and frame addition in this weekend. Same process as the previous. Welding seems to be getting better, getting tips from my cousin about what I am doing right and wrong. I started on the lower link, now my problem…
Bit of a slow week this week, I did managed to make a bit of progress on the 4 Link install. The truss I ordered from Barnes was for a 3.5 in axle tube but I knew I could modify it to fit my 3 inch axle tube. So that was the first thing I…
Now that parts have arrived, I am able to start figuring out my rear suspension setup. I knew early on that I wanted to run a triangulated four link setup with coil over. The install and geometry looked simple enough until I started down the rabbit hole of research. Now I am not going to…