Slow Build Up of the Woody

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me liking the updates.
 
Griffin said:
me liking the updates.
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This ones just for you bud haha.


Aidan and I decided to stick the axle underneath the truck again just to measure the castor one more time before the cut and turn. Both sides were right at 4* negative castor. When I'm finished, i want to end up with 5.5* positive castor. So I'm going to rotate it clockwise 9.5* for driver and counterclockwise for passenger.



Also upgraded from my little plastic sawhorses to the garbage can and cut the knuckles a couple minutes ago, piece of cake, just used a cut off wheel instead of a pipe cutter and it worked fine. I cut down about 1/4" all the way around. I could see where the axle housing ended and the sleeve began, so i figured I was finished.



Flap disked some of the pitted knuckles and the little bit of surface rust off the inside of the diff housing.




Aidan seems to think our map gas torch has enough "oomf" to heat the knuckle sleeve enough to make it possible to rotate, but I'm a little hesitant... Guess well find out tomorrow. Then, when it doesn't, well see some of y'all saturday!
 
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Alright Aidan was right... the little map gas torch could get the axle hot enough to turn.



A few hard smacks with a 5lb sledge on the inner axle i put through the trunnion bearing holes completed the "turn" part of the C&T extremely easily! I thought we'd be man handling that thing for hours trying to get it to +5.5*. I was very pleasantly surprised.



We ground down the cut a little to make more room to get all the way to the bottom with our welds. Then welded the gussets into place to have something to take a picture of.



My dumbass decided not to pay attention to the gussets and forgot they were top and bottom specific, so i reversed the passenger side by accident, my brother then pointed out my error like any younger brother would :flipoff2::lol:... So i ground the part down that might have come into contact with the knuckle and all is well in the world again.


Tomorrow we will hopefully finish up the front axle finally and have it painted... Might even have it all put back together. I could actually be driving Woody this Saturday!

Edit: nevermind, no driveshafts until probably next week :(
 
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Looking good. And those were some nice beads you boys laid down. I love my 211, will love it even more when I get 220 to it.
 
Thanks Matt. We made a pretty heavy duty 25ft extension cord and plugged the welder into my grandmothers dryer outlet for 220v :hillbilly:
 
OGBeno said:
Indeed. Very quality welds right out of the gate! I recently got 220 for my 211 but haven't had any time to drop any bead yet.

Let's see how they hold up when you are hitting the skinny pedal "in the mall parking lot or the drive-thru".

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Fixed it :flipoff2:
 
Thanks Ted :flipoff2:

Yep, Matts right. Took out the front drive shaft today and its never going back in












..just kidding
 
We didn't finish the front axle yesterday (or today...) because i decided i didn't want to reuse the old steering stops, so those will be here tomorrow hopefully so that i can go get the front finished up the on Sunday.

We did place the sway bar mounts, lower shock mounts, and "sharpied in" the ford towers.






Swapped on the rebuilt steering box and mocked up the hi steer setup. Look how pretty that purple is :rainbow:
















After all that, Aidan began bending our new brake lines for the rear axle... which were too short to begin with... Fxxx those things.

While he was wasting his time with the brake line, I started drilling the transfer case flanges for the new driveshaft pattern, lasted about 30 seconds before i decided to call ACC to make sure theres no crush sleeve behind the big 1 1/4" nut (thought it might've been like the diff) so that i could just remove the flanges and use the drill press at home.

Still looking for another DC driveshaft, they seem to be a lot rarer than they were like a month ago lol.
 
You boys sure aren't letting any grass grow. At this rate it should be ready in time for OTMT at GMP in a month or so. Looks like the C/T came out very nicely. Looking forward to seeing how those 37s look mounted.
 
Thanks bud :beer:
I feel like were moving at a snails pace. I see other people's SOA builds and it seems to only takes them DAYS to finish completely... I am hoping to have the truck drivable by the end of next week, then i can say it took less than ~ one month lol. i can get all the fine tuning (shackle angles, screwing with spring pack, etc) very soon after.
And if i have money, ill definitely be heading to OTMT. I had an absolute blast last year!
 
Well i got jooged (learned that word at work...) by 4wheelparts. They shipped my steering stops and tie rod clamp UPS ground instead of 2 day like i paid for so i can't really finish the front axle until thursday at the earliest. They refunded the difference in shipping cost but i was still a little annoyed.

But I'm happy now because I picked up a brother for my rear driveshaft today at ACC :)



Thanks again Michael for letting me borrow your flaring kit and for that brake line fitting!
 
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Thanks Andrew :) You should head to Johns some Saturday when you have time. I know we'd all enjoy seeing ya.

And J, you found my secret build thread hahah! You know I'm gonna need a spot for my spare! One of your rear bumpers for sure. Especially after that picture you just posted up!





...via IH8MUD app
 
Rear tires are ONNNNN!!!

Pictures aren't very good. Take it up with Aidan hahaha. I guess there wasn't really enough room to get the full truck in the photo.


Still too high. I can stick my head in between the wheel and fender and id like to lower that by a couple inches.



Also finished the rerouted brake lines front and rear. This experience has showed me that I HATE doing brake lines more than any other bit of cruiser work... Tried to keep hand bending to a minimum, but in a couple places it worked pretty well.







So the brake system is almost fully completed And the front is pretty much all ready to assemble. still just waiting on parts :crybaby:
 
Edit: Don't know why i keep double posting.
 
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