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Locking hubs? So I can unlock them and not have my whole front end spinning...which is especially good cause I'll have a square tube front shaft and it has a lock rite in it lol, and rear brakes I'm just going with an IFS rear end which has slightly larger drums for now...if I have any issues I'll look into disks
Well I got my rear end out and one leaf mocked in place lol, I went with 97+ ford 2wd springs that are 58" long, moved the front hanger forward 7" and rear forward 3" (double shackles), looks pretty centered to me...I had to leave for work so she's on hold lol, only thing I'm worried about at this point is getting the right height but we'll see onto the pics!
Rear end out
And how it sits lolll,
I got the rear end apart and my third off to get my 5.29s installed this one will have a Lincoln posi traction unit 😉
Also got the ifs axle wire brushed and painted only thing left to do is make my own hard lines (ick) and also replace a bearing and all new brake hardware, also ick lol
But I did get to test out some fancy new tire machines down at Georges Off road....he was the only guy willing to do my 38.5s...he's also the one doing my gears lol
That's all till I get home 6/25 then it's onnnnnnn
yo... can you explain the front disc brake mod.... you put what gen Taco rotors on with the V6 calipers right? So what do you have to grind on the hubs to get it to work?
All right check it, you grab 93 V6 calipers, 01 taco rotors, 93 nissan 300zx brake lines (they're longer) you do an IFS hub swap (tons of threads on it just ignore the brake part) either buy a backing plate eliminator kit or cut your old one up (I've got the eleminator kit) what I did was install the ifs hubs ready to go minus brakes I put the front end on jack stands blocked the rear tires and disconnected the rear drive shaft (from the transmission end) started the truck and put it into 4 low 1st and made a makeshift lathe you have to grind down the outside of the wheel mating surface so the taco you or will slide over
Notice the wheel surface here?
You can see in this picture how much I took off and where I ground it dow
Also I used 1/2" by 1"1/2 grade 5 bolts and drilled and tapped the calipers (you can use a locking nut instead) and a grade 8 washer to space the caliper a hair further out...you're also moving the calipers to the outside of the mounting ears
sweet... yea my old truck I had Diamond axle build the toyota outers to have 2000 Tundra rotors and calipers and they sat the rotor on the outside of the spindle
Niceeee, I've actually seen some people running tundra rotors/calipers and a gm master cylinder...but honestly my ˟˟˟˟ stops pretty damn good, if I need more braking power I'll get rear disks lol
So I finally got my rear 3rd done, I went with sky's off road 4cyl gear kit which the bearings come from Yukon gear, and gears are from usa gear...apparently they had a couple of goofs send out my shipment because both gear sets came with the wrong carrier bearings, and then after I dropped off my rear third I find out they shipped a 29 spline pinion?? Lol but they made it all right, next day shipped new Carrier bearings and a new 29 spline drive flange whoop...all I did was email them and they were on it, super happy with the customer service
Old pinion vs new
All done waiting for me to get it, BIG Thanks to George's Off road for setting the gears up!
Finally got some more time to work on it, got my ford Springs mounted, my 14" travel bilsteins and my 38.5s
Got em mounted up with my missing link shackles
Start of the shock towers, had to cut the old one out of the way, they're about 2" above the floor and angled slightly back
The axle side mounts are from low range offroad, I mounted them at the axle centerline but they don't hang too lol
Then I started on my fender chop I just freehanded a line (yeah I had some rust lol)
I just cut the inner fender about 2" up and kept chopping at the lower halves till it looked right
My passenger side took a hell of alot less time lol
Inner fender all done up
I'll fill it in later when I have time but the way I cut the inner fenderwell it almost closes it anyway
Whooo 38.5s!!!!
Beyond excited!! All I need now is some wheel spacers, front driveline, get my gear break in done and off to the shakedown run!!
Very nice! Glad you put up all the pictures of the progress along the way. I have a hard time getting good pictures when I am doing stuff like this. I always get impatient and do not want to stop for photos.
Thanks guys! Super glad I was able to document My progress well, I did a pretty good job on my 86 SAS but being my second try I took more important pictures rather than just poser pics 😂, and just an FYI if you get a lockright they have alot of slop.. As in I thought my backlash backed out after I ran with the hubs locked in lol my pinion had about 1/4 turn before all the slop is taken out so I tore it down thinking something broke.... Lesson learned, but the mods to the brake system made it super easy to break down the axle and get the third out 👍
Finally got everything pretty much buttoned up and started measuring for a front driveshaft whoop, I'll be using some 2x2 and 2.5x2.5 square tube...measuring fun 😂
Then the not so fun task of squaring these up....all the grinding! What I did here was square up my tube and cut a sliver of each size off and set it on the yokes then took some spray paint to mark it, on the cv end of the yoke you're better off cutting it close to the marks and then grinding as you have to remove alot of material
The easier one..you can just grind this one lol
All welded up just needing to be cut down
And all cut down and getting painted...I could have gotten a little more slip out of it but I had a brain fart and cut the larger end a bit short but it'll definitely work
And breaking in the gears
It vibrates pretty good above 40mph but that's to be expected, I'm never going to be using the truck on the asphalt in 4wd anyway, almost done with the gear heat cycles! Can't wait for the shakedown run!!! Oh and it rides way straighter and has less vibration than I thought for unbalanced 38.5s haha
Finally got my gear brake in done and took her out for a shakedown run, did great all day with no major issues.
Till I broke a birfield lol, and seeing how easy it was I'll probably be upgrading to rcvs alot sooner than I planned (like everything else on this build) but for ˟˟˟˟s and giggles here's the video 😂
Been down for a few weeks trying to track down a stock axleshaft for the time being...but I was able to redo my rear shackles mounts which was much needed...
Started out with a super lazy shackle angle with about 1" of up travel
Moved the hanger an 1.5" back, should have full range of movement now 😂...it rides soooo much better
06-01-2015, 06:07 PM
