glockman
I hate Jeep trucks
- Location
- Pleasant Grove
That is what the kids call Carolina squat. Yes there are idiots installing only front lift springs on purpose. AND DRIVING THEM!
Kevin's (slow) Excursion mod/upgrade thread
- Thread starter Kevin B.
- Start date
Thanks for this. I just spent over an hour in a google search rabbit hole. How I ended up at how umbrellas are made, I am not sure. But I now have a lot of information I will never need.
- Location
- Stinkwater
It wouldn't feel right if I didn't run into a couple snags to slow everything right the hell down. One of those snags was the chunk of my roof that peeled back a couple windstorms back, that sucked up most of my weekend that I was going to finish this on. Being back to twelve hour days limits my time out there even more, and the rain isn't helping either. Plus, there's this thing where I like to mountain bike. I can't tell if I've got my priorities straight or not.
But here's the latest hitch in my getalong - factory blocks with an integrated bumpstop tang.
I'm not aiming for 7 inches of lift in the back, so these gotta go. But I need somewhere for those bumpstops to land. Here's my solution, maybe.
10ga sheet top and bottom (I would have preferred thicker, but it's what I had), with chunks of inner hitch steel sandwiched between for structure (again, what I had), bolted into the leaf pack. I think it'll do the job. If I bend one, I'll spring for these u bolt top plates with the built in tang, but at $200 I figured to try my luck at some driveway fab first.
Feel free to laugh at my boogers.
But here's the latest hitch in my getalong - factory blocks with an integrated bumpstop tang.
I'm not aiming for 7 inches of lift in the back, so these gotta go. But I need somewhere for those bumpstops to land. Here's my solution, maybe.
10ga sheet top and bottom (I would have preferred thicker, but it's what I had), with chunks of inner hitch steel sandwiched between for structure (again, what I had), bolted into the leaf pack. I think it'll do the job. If I bend one, I'll spring for these u bolt top plates with the built in tang, but at $200 I figured to try my luck at some driveway fab first.
Feel free to laugh at my boogers.
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- Location
- Stinkwater
- Location
- Stinkwater
Aftermath of a cluster****.
I'm on the last spring. The other rear was tricky but came out with enough persuasion, this one not so much. There's a tiny notch in the frame above the upside-down shackle that's intended to allow the bolt to come out, but I could not for the life of me get it to line up. So I tried to pop the bottom bolt on the shackle and bring it out with the spring, but the pin corroded to the collar and I ripped it free of the bushing. So I ended up contorting myself six ways from sunday to get a sawzall on the leaf spring pin and eventually got that free and the spring out. Now I gotta cut the shackle free and wait for that part to arrive before I can put it all back together.
That was my Thursday, how was yours?
I'm on the last spring. The other rear was tricky but came out with enough persuasion, this one not so much. There's a tiny notch in the frame above the upside-down shackle that's intended to allow the bolt to come out, but I could not for the life of me get it to line up. So I tried to pop the bottom bolt on the shackle and bring it out with the spring, but the pin corroded to the collar and I ripped it free of the bushing. So I ended up contorting myself six ways from sunday to get a sawzall on the leaf spring pin and eventually got that free and the spring out. Now I gotta cut the shackle free and wait for that part to arrive before I can put it all back together.
That was my Thursday, how was yours?
- Location
- Stinkwater
Sits a little taller now.
Ok, a lot taller. I got every bit of that four inches, might be pushing five in back? I'll measure again after it's had a chance to settle a bit. I've been driving it around for a couple days and haven't decided yet if the sway bar and track bar are going back on or not. I'll need to get it on dirt before I make up my mind I expect.
Still gotta extend the brake/breather lines and figure out the bump stop situation.
Ok, a lot taller. I got every bit of that four inches, might be pushing five in back? I'll measure again after it's had a chance to settle a bit. I've been driving it around for a couple days and haven't decided yet if the sway bar and track bar are going back on or not. I'll need to get it on dirt before I make up my mind I expect.
Still gotta extend the brake/breather lines and figure out the bump stop situation.
- Location
- Stinkwater
- Location
- Never Far From Nowhere
Gotta ditch those running boards.
- Location
- West Bountiful, UT
- Location
- Stinkwater
Those are 33's.
Their days are numbered. They'll stay for now though, they're the only way the wife is getting in the truck.
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
I just saw that on IG as well. Love the rear bumper.
I can't imagine having to try to lift that spare tire on and off. My back hurts thinking about it
- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
We talked about this in the other thread. You let your wife help you.😁
- Location
- Stinkwater
Front bumper isn't terrible either. A little too swoopy for my taste, but not bad.
Gotta say, that paint job is on point. I didn't know I liked red Excursions but I do now.
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- Location
- Grantsville, Utah
Add a roof rack and that sucker is a modern day Dante's Peak Volcano Fighter!