one of my favorite trucks too

 

nice! looking forward to the pics.

 

Thanks guys! I'll try and get those pictures from this past wkend up today!

 

Looking good man!!!!

 

Thanks!

Tomorrow I'm going to crank the t bars up about 3/4 an inch to try and gain back what I've lost from the addition of bumper, winch and this heavy skid plate...I've probably added about 175 lbs to the front of the truck. Time to use my lifetime allignment from firestone...for the 4th time, I'm gettin my moneys worth outta that

 

I just got done cranking the torsion bars, I tightened them 4 complete rotations and it lifted me up about 3/4" and put me back to about where I was before I added the bumper, winch, and skid plate...going to get it aligned right now, and then when I get back, I'm gunna be putting this somewhere in the cab...

 

The people demand Rubicon photos!

 

haha I'll get them up as soon as I get back from the alignment shop, I promise I just got my gf's camera which has the pictures on it

 

Rubicon pictures here:

https://www.yotatech.com/forums/f100.../#post51498882

 

Guess I missed this in your build up, but are you 2.28/2.28 or 2.28/4.7?

 

He's 2.28/2.28

 

I can't decide if I want to just regear my stock case to 4.7 or if I want to add a 2.28 and leave mine 2.28. What made you decide to add another 2.28 rather than just gearing your current case?

 

A couple reasons....first being options, I can have stock low range which you can't have with 4.7's, you're gunna be super low all the time which isn't always best, you also now have a true 2 low with duals...next being duals is slightly lower, 4.7 vs. 5.2...and I knew in the future I'd go with 4.7's in the rear case....and duals is just plain cooler than a 4.7 set, however, about double the price.

 

Good points. What did you pull your 2nd gear box off of?

 

I didn't pull it, but I bought it from a guy from on craigslist and it's off an 82, If I'm thinking correctly, top shifts come on 79-83 pickups and behind the turbo 4runners and pickups (which are also 23 spline), there might be more years too. Look to pay around 100-150 for a top shift case

 

Awesome build man.

Do you want this to be your "official" build-up thread?
If so I'll move it to the Build-Up Section and re-title it for ya.

Fink

 

I just bought a 4.7 gearset...

 

Thanks, and yeah that would be great if you could do that for me! Could you change it to 89silverpu's DD/Crawler build thread?

Oh yeah....I've got 5.2 gearing, and 2.28 but I do wanna regear my rear case to 4.7

Or do you already have duals??

 

I moved and re-titled it to match the way we name threads in that section since it helps when you're searching for them later.

I can add something like "Project DD/Crawler" on the end if you want.

Fink

 

Gotcha, no worries it's fine the way it is