Any tricks to this? It seems Ive done all the things mentioned elsewhere on mud:
Gonna be easier with front clip out of the way
Brake lines to master cylinder
heater hoses to fire wall
AC hoses to firewall
all connections to fire wall
all connections to wire harnesses coming through fire wall
rear heater lines
steering column
throttle cable
emergency brake cable
trans and t-case shifter connections
body to frame ground straps
body mounts (pricey to replace)
but a pry bar under the rear body isnt moving much.. I havent had much opportunity to dig further yet though..
I bought mine wrecked and the engine was already out, so a lot of this was done. I just pulled an 80 engine for a customer and it was a pain in the ass, but I was planning on it going back in.
Are you keeping the entire 80 drive train?
-brake lines attach in 100 different places I swear
-fuel lines
-radiator, hoses, and/or fan shroud? Free up some space. Radiator could stay, but the hoses and shroud for sure.
-unhook eng harness 4ish plugs from the glove box area and pull it all back into the engine bay
The 55 body was pretty straight forward with an old 350 on it, but same concept applies, just start unbolting/unplugging until you don’t see anything attached.
-Sidenote:
Ive pretty much decide not to lower rear coil buckets. Yes, a “body lift” as a whole is frowned upon, but that’s not really what it is. It’s not a 2” piece of plastic because you won’t buy nice springs, it’s just where the body happens to fit. Going to fab body mounts and use small bushings and put the body where it sorks
Deo, the Surf Wagon, after all the work to drop the buckets, had issues fitting the 100 series transmission and Tcase because it all hung down so low. Had to tear up the floor pans and raise the body anyway. And dropping the rear suspension at ride height gives you less spring options because you already have a 1.5” lift.
I’m going to put in some 2.5” OME 80 springs and with raising the body 1”, I think that will get me 4” or so on the 55 which will be about right for 35”s
55s are 600lbs lighter than an 80 is stock. I have a 55 gallon tank, 35” spare, will have tubing bumpers and sliders, and a winch. Think it will be about 80 stock weight or just a little more.
This isn’t a well traveled road and if I have to swap springs in the the end, oh well.
Probably about to drop some $$ on nice shocks. Generic 80, non adjustable stuff probably won’t give the results we need
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