View attachment 3568592View attachment 3568596Finally touched the blue 40, I haven't even started it since I went to Leatherwood, Ky in it in November and it twisted the rear driveshaft.
Sunday I flipped the rear springs for a 4"ish stretch in the rear. And discovered the clutch slave cylinder was completely rusted solid and the water pump is leaking. Guess that's what get for ignoring it for 3 months.
Goal is to replace the pinion seal, build a new rear driveshaft, extend the rear frame to axle brake line, cut the quarters, replace the water pump, replace the clutch slave cylinder, and hopefully reattach the air line for my ARB that got ripped out when the driveshaft went in to orbit.
This all has to get done before I go to Stoney lonesome and Hawk pride March 13th, while simultaneously moving and changing jobs. Seems easy enough....
Current plan is to cut the twisted tube off the yokes on a lathe with a buddy and retube it with whatever I can scrounge up for now. Can't find a driveshaft shop who will build be a shaft and keep cruiser joints. They all wanna go 1310. Which is an issue if I wanna keep the Tcase parking brake from what I've found so far.
I stuck the 35s back on to give my Steering a fighting change of survival before I have the chance to upgrade for the 37s and beadlocks