looks good...cant wait to get new tires for my junk....and get the axle rebuilt..hate waiting on parts

 

Great Build so far! Good work man.

 

werd, my heims were ordered like 2 almost 3 weeks ago, I called last friday, they are still ˟˟˟˟˟ backordered

I guess when they are custom made they take a little more time to get a whole pallet made

im gonna call again and bitch, we will see if I can get something free

 

Looking good man subscribed for sure

 

hahaha thats the spirit...unless i order it from ebay it usually takes forever...

 

I try to buy locally, but when I can order it and get twice the strength for the same price, im all for it.

 

Got 22ft of 1.5", .250 wall DOM today, $213.95, ouch....

Beefy though, hope I dont bend these suckers



now I just need to figure out what takes more abuse, upper control arms, or trac bars, I bought extra (about 10ft extra) so I could either make my trac bars outta this, or my upper control arms

 

got the spring perches built today, I still need to finish welding them, they are just tacked together

also I need to figure out what im gonna do for a diff/third member and assemble the axle.



front lower control arms are built, still waiting for the rest of my heims

 

progress has been slow lately, running low on money, need to rebuild my knuckles and get some manual hubs for them. I did pick up a 3rd member with 5.29's for $20, only thing is the diff is welded, will work for now though.

My heims shipped thursday, so they should be here monday or tuesday, then its time to start cutting




im going to need to raise my frame in the front up about 7" so that the front and rear matches, rear frame is 27" off the ground, front frame sits 20" off the ground.

So I made some plates





to do something similar to this

 

Finally Got my Heims



made some ghetto misalignment spacers





now if my boss would get his sandrail put back together I could get my 4runner in and start cutting the suspension

 

wow. looks like a fun build.

 

picked up a couple of rancho 9 way adjustable shocks for $80

slightly used but seem to be in pretty good shape

29" uncompressed, 18" compressed

 

Finally started cutting today

 

lots of grinding today, going to start welding tomorrow

 

very nice. getting closer

 

still havent even put the axle under the truck yet

everytime I start to make progress I figure out a better way to do ˟˟˟˟, then I get busy at work (I am just working on this during my down time, since I am only paid when I am towing, but I have to be at the shop from 7am to 6pm)

made a little progress in the past few days


took a few trys to get the pipe bending right... still not happy with that kink you can see (you can actually see a slight crack in the metal, so im going to grind that part down and weld it... and add more steel :wabbit2: )



36's in the wheel well, its actually going to sit 4-5" higher than that, just trying to figure out if I want to move the axle forward a few inches (will have to hack the bumper a little, but no big deal)

 

I just finished my SAS and it looks alot better pulled forward and gives you alot more clearance away from the pinch welds. So I say pull it forward and look cool!!!

 

finally got these bitches welded on to the frame

I compressed the springs, looks like I will be between 8-10" of lift depending on how much the springs settle, finally going to put the axle under the truck tomorrow

 

Finally got the axle under it, and put the weight of the vehicle on the spring, looks like its gonna be right about 8" of lift

crappy cell phone pics, I forgot to bring my good camera to work today



Welds are getting better, the bottom one my tip got messed up so I kinda screwed that one up.



hard to get the springs to compress straight up, they kept wanting to roll the axle from one side to another



the ride height she will be sitting at on 36's

 

looking good so far. i still need to work on my welding lol