Builds 40 Series Chassis, 80 Series Suspension - Kept it Simply (3 Viewers)

[watrob]

Installed new bearing and seals to front hubs and pre-assembled knuckles. Installed top & bottom bearings to left & right hand side of axles and installed the SST into right hand side.

Inscribed first line with SST.

 

[watrob]

My front FOX shocks arrived this afternoon.

 

[gpfj40]

Do you have any detailed pics of the axle and frame mounts of your front pan hard bar? I'm interested to see what your mounts look like given I just faked my way through a similar install.

 

[woytovich]

Blaine... Are you driving yours? I am very curious to hear how it behaves on the street with this suspension.

 

[gpfj40]

Not yet, but hopefully in the coming months.

 

[watrob]

Do you have any detailed pics of the axle and frame mounts of your front pan hard bar? I'm interested to see what your mounts look like given I just faked my way through a similar install.

Go to my build thread, pages 5 onwards show the new chassis?

https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/re...-40-series-axles-with-80-series-coils.173333/

 

[watrob]

Installed my front e-locker

 

[watrob]

Finished the front knuckle calibrations.

 

[watrob]

Mated the 5 speed transmission to the 75 series bell housing. Added the stainless steel hand brake and t-case gear selector.

 

[watrob]

Installed the rear Lokka diff.

 

[lukasertic]

Wow! Ive always wanted to do this! Great job!

 

[fjfodee]

May have missed it somewhere, but where did you get the Tcase brake?

 

[watrob]

May have missed it somewhere, but where did you get the Tcase brake?

It's a TSM, bought it a few years ago, I have not really attached it properly yet, just used some spacers as a test fit. Will remove the yoke off the transmission and fit the disc behind the yoke this weekend which is the correct way to fit it.

The disc rotor is stainless steel, that's why I got it as my 40 is on the beach (no highway driving) so a e-brake is really not needed anyway but I have to comply with the law.

 

[woytovich]

So you are doing all of this for a beach truck? Of course it is yours to do with as you please, AND I think this is a super cool project, but it seems one would look to do this to either improve rock crawling flex or to improve the ride on the road...

In any case I can't wait to see how you like it when it is done. I hope you will get some pavement time with it, I am curious how the ride will be and how it will handle on the road.

Keep up the VERY good work!

 

[watrob]

Yes I am doing this for beach work, leaf springs don't last on the beach. I get about 2 years out of them and then they have to be replaced. Coils are 1/10th the price, don't hold beach sand, and you can replace a coil in 10 mins.

Also 80 series parts are now plentiful, whereas 40 series parts are becoming hard to get or you pay a premium for them. Also my previous build I did not do enough galvanizing, this time I have right down to the battery holder, just got back my roll cage from the galvanizer also the rear bumperetts and had my alloy wheels sand blasted, epoxy primed, power coated and a clear over the top. Also had the towbar gal'ed.


Also replaced any bolts I missed on the first build with stainless steel, radiator is brass as the first one fell apart after 3 years, I also did the bonnet catches in alloy as the steel ones had past there use by date.

 

[woytovich]

Got it... Well thought out processes....

 

[Henry James the 47th]

A 10 minute spring change - how are you accomplishing that?

 

[watrob]

A 10 minute spring change - how are you accomplishing that?

Easy, jack the chassis up, drop the shock. stand on that axles side want to pull the spring, put the new spring in, drop the chassis back down a little, reconnect the shock, remove the jack, done.

 

[watrob]

frontend is all finished

 

[watrob]

Rear.