Builds The Warthog - 1977/73 combo (4 Viewers)

[RUSH55]

thanks for shaming me into fixing that exhaust.

You’re welcome. Jeeze, you make it almost too easy

 

[Ol Yeller]

I did not know of any cruiser with the exhaust outside the frame.

My 74 is out there.

 

[wngrog]

My 74 is out there.

Well I clearly don’t know then.

 

[scrapdaddy]

My 74 is out there.

I'm betting it's not a stock system.

 

[frismanis]

Well I clearly don’t know then.

Man walks into a psychiatrist's office wearing only Saran Wrap. Psychiatrist says "I can clearly see your nuts."

The s*** that constantly pops into my head from 20-30 years ago drives me nuts. DAMMIT! That led to another...

Pirate walks into a bar, and the bartender asks "Do you know you have a steering wheel in your pants?" Pirate replies "Arrrgghh. It's driving me nuts!"

 

[Ol Yeller]

I'm betting it's not a stock system.

No pic handy but there are factory hangers outside the frame and the remnants of a heat shield (that someone removed with a torch)

So maybe it changed by year?

The only pic I have saved shows inside routing

 

[bobm]

Mine inside. Keep it from getting torn Off

 

[DTC72]

Nolen - sorry for the slight high jack of your thread. I saw the picture of your muffler and it reminded me that my 1969 has an original muffler heat shield on the outside of the frame while my not original but still very rusty muffler is currently routed through the inside of the frame. Since I will be getting a new muffler I have been thinking about the beat/proper routing. I pulled out my F Engine manual and here is what it shows. Interestingly enough the US LHD doesn’t show the frame in the picture. While the non-US version does show the frame with the exhaust system in the outside of the frame. In fact the piping goes from inside to outside back inside and the outside again which seems not a very efficient routing.

 

[wngrog]

Yeah I see zero reason to run it out of the frame but I bet it has something to do with all that dopey 3 on the tree mechanical

 

[DTC72]

Yeah I see zero reason to run it out of the frame but I bet it has something to do with all that dopey 3 on the tree mechanical

Mine is 3 on the floor but I do have the super dopey vacuum H-N-L 4WD pull out knob system.

 

[Half Wacked aka Split Pea]

Nolen - sorry for the slight high jack of your thread. I saw the picture of your muffler and it reminded me that my 1969 has an original muffler heat shield on the outside of the frame while my not original but still very rusty muffler is currently routed through the inside of the frame. Since I will be getting a new muffler I have been thinking about the beat/proper routing. I pulled out my F Engine manual and here is what it shows. Interestingly enough the US LHD doesn’t show the frame in the picture. While the non-US version does show the frame with the exhaust system in the outside of the frame. In fact the piping goes from inside to outside back inside and the outside again which seems not a very efficient routing.

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My 72 was on the outside of the frame Looked just like the picture, also the skid plate was different no indent for exhaust. My 2 cents

 

[wngrog]

In the category of all pigs are ****ed and nothing off the shelf ever works as advertised........

Remember back when I was going to trim the lip off my front fenders because the 35’s were rubbing?

Well I started talking to Voodoo about his shackle reversal. Advertised at Man A Fre as a 1.5” lift. I was sagging a bit in the front anyway so I grabbed a shackle reversal kit and some donkey dong long anti inversion shackles for the rear to pick it all up 1.5” for my new meats.

Getting the front hangers off on a 55 is fun as they are fully welded.

I tacked the fronts on and put weight back on the truck

 

[wngrog]

The MAF setup is slick because the rear shackles they sell make it where you don’t have to do any fab back there




In theory


Not 1.5” lift here but 4”....... this just went from a 1/2 day job to a lot of head scratching.

Back to the drawing board......

 

[J Mack]

Back to the drawing board......

Just to make this more fun than you are already having…..

You should look at moving your axle forward about an inch, the factory fixed rear eye moves the tire forward on compression and now you will move your tire rearward on compression, a 35” tire is going to be close to that rear lip in your ditch test if you are turning into it.

 

[wngrog]

Just to make this more fun than you are already having…..

You should look at moving your axle forward about an inch, the factory fixed rear eye moves the tire forward on compression and now you will move your tire rearward on compression, a 35” tire is going to be close to that rear lip in your ditch test if you are turning into it.

To be a little fair to this “kit” I had already cheated the front 1.5” forward but even if I moved it to the stock spot there is zero chance this would settle

Where my thumb is is the stock center line

I just need to put a shackle hanger up on the frame and 86 all this fancy rear shackle MAF sent

 

[frismanis]

Do the front u-bolt flips allow you to move the axle forward an inch? I know the rears allow you to move the axle, but couldn't remember if the fronts do too. So if you find you do need to move it forward that would be an easy solution (as long as your driveshaft has enough slip to handle the added length)

 

[J Mack]

To be a little fair to this “kit”

Yeah I'm not a fan of that kit but if I was going to try to make it work I would pull all the leaves out of my pack and cycle the suspension before I welded everything permanent.

 

[RUSH55]

Make sure you double check for square on that “kit”. Sometimes the kids slapping those together didn’t double check their measurements between welds and chatting with their bro’s about what to bring later to the skate park to smoke.

 

[wngrog]

I’m not sure what they were thinking with this kit though. I get what the concept of trying to reuse the fixed hanger using this custom shackle but there is no way this would ever have proper geometry for a 1.5” lift

Voodoo sent me pics of his setup and the front is the same as mine but the rear uses a standard H shackle and it’s not even very long.

If it was easy it would be an FJ80.....

 

[RUSH55]

I have to admit, it’s a little odd seeing you do a SR. Almost half expecting to see you do an SOA next week