Winter project
- Thread starter Dixon
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I looked at Shawn's project and it came to me I've got a long way to go. I have got a good start on rebuilding the front axle. I want to fix every thing I can as I go along. The front axle needed a good cleaning, new grease, oil, gaskets to fix the leaks, and a nice paint job. I got a knuckle rebuild kit from Marlin Crawler and it looks like it has every thing as far as gaskets, scrapers on the balls, and 4 bearing for the knuckles. Marlin had there high steer kit on sale in Dec which was quite a good price. When I called them the first of Jan they said the sale was off but he gave it to me any way ($369.00). My tubes for the 4 link rear are built now and I found a set of yj springs for the front both are in SLC now I just have to find a time to pick them up it's a four hour trip.
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I'm still plugging away and making progress although it seems slow. I do think it will go faster now that I've got the front axle done and bolted to the frame. I had my parts for the front suspension from Trail Tuff show up this week and I hurried to in stall them since they were all bolt on. I also picked up a used set of YJ springs and sand blasted and painted them this morning. Rebuilding the knuckles went well but for installing some gaskets in the wrong order and having to take one side back apart to straighten things out. Today I had all day to work on the sami, welding the spring perchs on and the shock mounts and getting to the point were I'm at made it a productive day. I looking forward to starting the 4 link in on the rear axle this coming week.
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Andy
aka. Hollywood
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- Here and there....
Dixon said:
You are flying through that project, what does your boy think? Looks good.
marvin
ZINGER
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- Price, Utah
making me jealous, is the other sammi still trail worthy? I want to go out real soon and run something, what do you think?
tiny2085
HomeGrown
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- Two-will-uh
I might have missed it earlier in the thread, but why are two of your links somwhat monsterous compared to the other two? Why not all four links the made with the same joints and so on. ?
The blue sami has a chev slip yoke, u joint to flange that has a been drilled to fit the transfer case of the sami. I don't know what the flange is off of. The build I'm doing now, one came with the sami. It is a after market set up. slip yoke to 1' drive line to flange. I don't know why there is a small drive line used. I'm going to use the slip joint to flange only. Should be easy to make your own if you can find a u-joint that will fit both the slip joint and the flange that you should be able to get at a auto parts.
mock up rear axle
I've had some time at night this week to work on the rear axle four link tabs. I bought a number of tabs form Rock logic and so far I've onlly been able to use 2 with out modifing them. Then I had to reproduce 2 of them because the ones I bought were two small. If it keeps coming together by saturday night I should have it all welded up and I could start installing the motor. I started this little project the first of this month do you think it can be done by April?
I've had some time at night this week to work on the rear axle four link tabs. I bought a number of tabs form Rock logic and so far I've onlly been able to use 2 with out modifing them. Then I had to reproduce 2 of them because the ones I bought were two small. If it keeps coming together by saturday night I should have it all welded up and I could start installing the motor. I started this little project the first of this month do you think it can be done by April?
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Shawn said:Sorry but, what the hell is this............
Maybe you need to get some new advice from someone else....
Pretty sure that is only a mock up. I can see how that could all be tied in (with major gussets) and work quite well while retaining adjustability.