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Old 05-27-2012, 11:10 PM   #51 (permalink)
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Got quite a bit done yesterday and this afternoon. My wonderful wife is understanding of the time I spend on the truck thankfully. Anyway I started on the rear. The axle mounts are done and tacked on so I began building the rear frame mounts. I knew that I wanted the mounts to tie into a custom cross member so I came up with a design on that. I began by putting in a temp cross member and removing the stock one behind the rear output..... To begin is the truck as it sits...I just realized I have no pictures of that yet.
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Old 05-27-2012, 11:44 PM   #52 (permalink)
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My idea was to run the frame mounts off of a frame plate that boxed the inside of the frame and was tied together with a cross member both front (in the existing location) and rear (will be added when installed).
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Old 05-27-2012, 11:49 PM   #53 (permalink)
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Here is the cross member being built.... I think I need a camera. My phone is just not cutting it with picture clarity....
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Old 05-27-2012, 11:54 PM   #54 (permalink)
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Gusseting the crossmember....made me a little nervious it being five pieces. This should help....too bad this thing so going to weigh a crap load! Also I got the lower frame heim mounts welded up.
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Old 05-27-2012, 11:57 PM   #55 (permalink)
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And last but not least I built the frame upper mounts. I still have more work to do on these to get them mounted to the frame plates but you can get the idea.
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Old 05-28-2012, 12:00 AM   #56 (permalink)
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frame uppers continued....
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Old 05-28-2012, 12:44 AM   #57 (permalink)
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Nice build..you have some badass toys to play with(tools)..
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Old 05-28-2012, 05:20 AM   #58 (permalink)
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Lookin good Eric. I need to swing by and give you a hand one of these days when I have time!
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Old 05-28-2012, 07:28 PM   #59 (permalink)
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Nice build..you have some badass toys to play with(tools)..
Thanks they help! Not as many as some. That's for sure.

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Lookin good Eric. I need to swing by and give you a hand one of these days when I have time!
Hey man! Yeah I think this I could use some of your skills on this truck!! Let me know when your free.
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Old 05-28-2012, 07:49 PM   #60 (permalink)
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Wow looking good!
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Old 05-28-2012, 08:40 PM   #61 (permalink)
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Awesome build!

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Old 06-04-2012, 10:55 PM   #62 (permalink)
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Taking shape......Should have a good chunk of time to work on this tomorrow.....
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Old 06-05-2012, 04:07 PM   #63 (permalink)
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Unfortunately not much in the way of pics. Got quite a bit done finishing up the cross member. I just need to weld everything and install. Also I am going to be running a rear Warn 8000 for recovery/ suck down. It will be mounted above and slightly in front of the rear axle. Basically right under the rear seat. Hopefully it all fits!
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Old 06-05-2012, 04:09 PM   #64 (permalink)
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I thought I would try my camera on the last pics and they look worse than my phone!!
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Old 06-05-2012, 04:14 PM   #65 (permalink)
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Looks great! Excellent fab skills too!
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Old 06-08-2012, 09:17 PM   #66 (permalink)
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Looks great! Excellent fab skills too!
Thanks man!

Ok so I finished the cross member. Got it all welded up and installed it.
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Old 06-08-2012, 09:19 PM   #67 (permalink)
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built the links and got everything mocked into place..
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Work of art there, looks freakin awesome! I was curious though and I'm sure it's just the angle of the camera, but how is your pinion angle?
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Old 06-08-2012, 11:26 PM   #69 (permalink)
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Work of art there, looks freakin awesome! I was curious though and I'm sure it's just the angle of the camera, but how is your pinion angle?
Haha. Yeah. Good eye. I was wondering if someone would catch that. It was the end of the day and the uppers need to be adjusted in a lot.
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Ok im finishing up the front end, namely the panhard. It has been difficult getting the panhard to fit with full compression being what I want it to be. I am running the frame mount on the drivers side and the axle mount on the pass side. I will need to notch the frame on the pass side and probably slightly alter the oil pan to get about an inch more up travel from the pictures below. Any ideas on how to fit this thing?!!
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I started on the drivers side frame mount.....
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Been out of town for a few weeks. Started mocking up the rear shocks and rear swaybar:
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swaybar..... I really liked how ErikB mounted his swaybar to his axle for more space, so I decided to copy that idea....
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