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Clamped the '79 Spring buckets in place

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Drivers side...I put them as far forward as possible

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Drilling holes

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Passenger side bolted up

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Drivers side

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Closer look at passenger side...see the rear bolt to replace the rivet lost when i took off the ttb ...

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Hung the spring to look at it

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Bolting on the radius arms

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Rotated the axle to see if the radius arms were even

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Kept retightening the C bushings till they touched at the same time

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Slid the axle under the truck

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Hung with the springs, staps and stands to get it all lined up

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Radius arm brackets bolted to the frame now

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Radius arms are bolted up

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Passenger side spring

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89 hits | 70.79 KB | Posted: 3/15/06
Drivers side

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Front side.

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Putting pressure on the springs

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Closer look at everything from the side

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Spring under pressure

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Cage radius arms

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Brake lines fit

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Track bar pieced together

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Mark Z. laying some beads on the mount

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So nice of him to hook me up

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Back at home with my welded bracket

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2 bolts on the inside too

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Notched out the end for the track bar

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Hitting it with the flappy to clean it up a bit

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Gonna look nice painted up

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More clean up on the bracket

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Drilling 3/4" hole for track bar

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In place on the truck

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Added an extra bolt to the rear mount

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All together and tightened up

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Hanging again with the rerar mounts all finished

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Stitting on its own

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45 1/2 to bottom of the front wheelwell

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Drivers side spring

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Passenger side

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138 hits | 68.76 KB | Posted: 3/24/06
I didnt like the way the reamer was working in the drill so i did it by hand

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115 hits | 56.7 KB | Posted: 3/24/06
Mounted the tie rod on top of a dropped pitman arm

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130 hits | 67.21 KB | Posted: 3/26/06
Todd gets to do the honors of cutting the crossmemeber...no turning back now

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Cutting the crossmember

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Hit the edges with a flappy to clean it up

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Lots more room now

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2 grade 8 bolts in the track bar mount, just because

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Upper track bar mount bolted on and crossmember cut

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Back of track bar mount

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Weight back on the axle, and ratchet straps centering it

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Close up of track bar mount and pitman arm

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Kinda checkin angles

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Other side

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Got my tie rod, drag link, and track bar today

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Tie rod on, made of DOM tubing tapped 7/8

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With drag link

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Put some wheels on to make it easier to check alignments

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Started checking clearances with some 7" wheels i have laying around

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Looking at the angle of the trac bar

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Just a pic

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Look from the rear

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Some people are concerned about my tie rod being on top, but it does droop easily 12-13"

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Got my Cage shock hoops

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Holding it up to see

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Had to cut a hole in the wheelwell

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Thats gonna be cool

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test fitting the shocks on

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Todd thinks they look cool

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Looks pretty cool I think

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Hot my heims, so I put in the track bar

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Got the lower part of the arm bolted good enough to drive it to a shop to get the lower part reworke...

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Passenger side mounted. had to cut deeper into the wheelwell for this side as the plastic liner is s...

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This is probably how its all gonna look, still will be more fine tuning, but its close.

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Set the tires on to check clearances

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Let the supension hang today

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tested movement with the springs off

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shimmed the bottom of the spring cups 4 degrees

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shimmed the bottom of the spring cups 4 degrees

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Putting in all the cotter pins

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Ratchet strapping the axle to the frame to get out of the garage

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Dark pic outside

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After the first test drive

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Sitting outside for the first time in quite awhile

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Tire can hit the rear shock...I will have to adjust the stops

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Outside in the daylight

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Got the bumper put on

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We even cleaned up the garage