LOL the "plan b" switch is awesome. Looking good.
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Goals brotha . Moonshine looking cleaner and cleaner.Installed:
Finished:
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Since I was in Moonshine mode, I also knocked out wiring up my winch. Had the 12voltguy in-cab kit, and a superwinch 90-14452 sitting on a shelf since last summer when I rebuilt my 8274. Mounted the superwinch contactor up on the DS outer fender to get it away from the elements a bit and ran the winch cables through a special kevlar abrasion resistant sleeve made for machine hydraulic lines (thanks @SeanLX). Each of the three hot lines are also sleeved in individual abrasion resistant mesh.
Such stealth:
Much tidy:
So happy. Can't wait to exercise all of this at GSMTR in May. Have some more stuff up my sleeve, including her transformation into Monstershine (@mtweller). Stay tuned.
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Moonshine on 42" TSLs is insanity. Wow is all I can say.
Carolina Relic Run was this weekend. Put the 4d2s on to test them out for GSMTR. Needs more trimming and adjustment up front, but the rear looks like it's about perfect as-is.
She's in the garage to get a front ARB *finally*, just in time for GSMTR.
Carolina Relic Run was this weekend. Put the 4d2s on to test them out for GSMTR. Needs more trimming and adjustment up front, but the rear looks like it's about perfect as-is.
She's in the garage to get a front ARB *finally*, just in time for GSMTR.
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Under the knife again. She's *finally* getting a front ARB and 35sp outers.
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Goodies. Already had the ARB, but the rest of the stuff is new. Yukon "hardcore" locking hubs and 4130 chromo stubs. New wheel bearings, spindle bearings, carrier bearings, carrier set up bearing, u-joints, seals, gasket and gear marking paint. I had forgotten how much of a pain in the dick replacing u-joints is. Stupid dana and their u-joint axle shafts 
What front end is that? I hate the 1996 D60 on my Ford. It was a nightmare getting the spindle off when doing ball joints. It took a chisel which destroyed the brake shields.
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Chevy Kingpin Dana 60. Came out of a 1985 K30 (CUCV).
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4 years ago when I put this front end in, I took it out of the K30, which had 65k on it, and slapped it in moonshine. I didn't do so much as change the brake pads. All I did was change the gears to 3.73s and put my NWF highsteer arms on. I didn't complain about it when I posted the pic, but when I tore down the axle, I found bad wheel bearings, bad spindle bearings, bad inner axle seals, bad axleshaft u-joints and all of a sudden this project snowballed. Wasn't looking to go through this entire axle so close to GSMTR, but remembering the quote in my sig, I couldn't put it back together with junk. "While I'm in there" kicked in and that's why I've got chromo outers now.
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4 years ago when I put this front end in, I took it out of the K30, which had 65k on it, and slapped it in moonshine. I didn't do so much as change the brake pads. All I did was change the gears to 3.73s and put my NWF highsteer arms on. I didn't complain about it when I posted the pic, but when I tore down the axle, I found bad wheel bearings, bad spindle bearings, bad inner axle seals, bad axleshaft u-joints and all of a sudden this project snowballed. Wasn't looking to go through this entire axle so close to GSMTR, but remembering the quote in my sig, I couldn't put it back together with junk. "While I'm in there" kicked in and that's why I've got chromo outers now.
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And the nice thing is once it's rehabbed you can forget about it. I remember with my cruiser axle I was always checking on bolts and constantly dealing with the wheel bearing preload. Now I just get in the truck and drive, I don't have to worry about the front end anymore.
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S4Cruiser
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Are those rocks really as small as they look is it just the humongous tires?
Is that the exit at Kodak rock?
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Kodak rock has been closed for 3 or 4 years now. IIRC, this was on rocky mountain loop.
S4Cruiser
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Dang...I now feel as out of the loop as I actually am!
So how was the ride with the 42's?
When I was running the 42 PBR's, I was shocked by how easy a lot of obstacles became.
The 42 TSL' s look huge!
When I was running the 42 PBR's, I was shocked by how easy a lot of obstacles became.
The 42 TSL' s look huge!
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The ride with 42s was awesome, like riding on a cloud. I'm going to put her through her paces at GSMTR this coming week, so we'll see how easy the obstacles are 
What gear ratios are you running at the diffs?
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3.73s.
Does it feel like Moonshine is struggling at all with the 42s and 3.73? I'm considering trying out 39s at some point.
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What do you mean by struggle? On the road it's awful, but because the tires aren't balanced. Offroad, no issues at all.
I'm talking acceleration on the road, does it feel like the engine need to revv a lot to get it going? Off road I assume you're always in low gear so that offsets it a bit. I remember when I had 4.11s I almost never used 1st gear. Now with the 3.73 I have to.
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I would not recommend driving any distance on the road with 39s or larger. If 42" all terrains that could be balanced for road use existed, I'd want 4.10s at least, if not 4.88s. 2000rpm in 4th gear was something like 68mph.
