Last couple weekends, anyway.. The truck's inaugural Colorado/UT/NM trip since I bought it.
Camping below hanging flume in Dolores canyon, CO.. got stuck in a snow drift on hermosa park road and stood a very real chance of sliding off the side of the road trying to get un-stuck. Shown is my recovery tool. Messed around in chokecherry canyon.. that stock spare drags over EVERYTHING.
Swapped out cheapo driving lights for VisionX ones, much better!
Finished rebuilding my rear hubs and brake calipers. Seal surfaces on the spindle were badly worn, so they got coated with POR15 then polished back with wet and dry. The inner bearing race had spun a little so after cleaning up the spindle the new race got glued in with loctite. New hub stud kits and the wheel studs were soaked in phosphoric acid, hub got painted up with Rustoleum satin black.
Tested the recently finished 4x4 labs with 3 Jerry's full of gas and a spare tire to see if my newbie weld held up. Lol...
I finally drove her on the freeway after all the work on J lift, regear and front locker install. Didn't see any bad attitude, no howl, no sag (so far).
It was a bit stiffer than my prior medium duty lift (obviously), I like the way she handled the controlled and steep turns, no soft rolls.
I didn't have any cc bushings on my prior medium lift, didn't see bad mannerisms so I was OK with it.
Now I'm scheduled tomorrow for an allignment. Let's see what the yellow bushings and Slee's 3degree Caster/trunion bearing does...
Drained and filled T-Case with 75W-90 Delo. Just have the rear diff to complete and all 24mm plugs will be replaced with 10mm low-pro magnetic hex plugs and all fluids will be Delo"fied"!
