I dont have a trans jack or a floor jack that will go high enough.

 

T case turned out good, I like how you did your twin sticks..

When I swapped the turbo 400 out of my blazer, I took the tires and wheels off (it had 38's on it) and had the axels sitting on blocks to get it as low as possible, then I made a cradle to fit on my floor jack, and also used ratchet straps to help keep it steady... it worked out pretty good

 

Thats funny.I made a cradle for my jack already.Just when you have the jack up that high,you have no controll-scary.Thats a pretty good plan,I think ill get er done tomorrow.I also thought to compress my suspension with a come a long,but didnt want to mess up new springs.I also thought of putting the winch on my jeep and hoisting the truck in the air with a tree,then dropping the truck on the t case-too dangerous.Ill try your idea,thanks

 

Yeah, I know what you mean, when you got all that weight up that high it's pretty sketchy! That's where the ratchet straps help. I had a couple holding it to the cradle, and a couple (heavy duty ones with the hooks on the end) attached to each side of the frame and ran across underneath it, as you lift up the jack, you can tighten up the straps for extra stability.

If I wasn't so broke I'd come & help you out, I'm just over in Yakima.

 

RustED,do you know where the trail head is near natchees that leads around the southern side of Mt Raineer, and drops you out in evans cr?Ive herd rumours of this trailbut nobody can confirm its existance.I would love to try it,but all I get are storys about sombodys brothers cousin doing it.

 

Ha, ha... I've heard tale of it, but I can neither confirm nor deny its existence, lol... I'll ask my buddy, if it does exist he's probably wheeled it!

 

A buddy and I set out to find it from evans cr about 12 yrs ago.We made it about 6 miles before he separated his t case and trans on a rock,end of story.How far out ate you on your truck? I plan on testing mine out in natchees.

 

I pulled the tranny & tcase out of my parts truck today (cant pull the engine till I borrow a hoist from my friend, again) tomorrow I'm going to pull the front axel... hopefully I can get some parts sold that I have on CL, so I can get the parts I need!

 

Pm me a list of what you have,maybe I can help.

 

Dang i got all excited when i saw the word natchez on the mobile site only to come to full site to find yall are not in tenn

 

I would love to wheel Tn.Heres why.Where I grew up (at the base of Evans cr orv park) in the late 80' s early 90' s, if you showed up with anything wider than an old fj or a jeep,you were screwed.Then I moved to the desert and everybody was like ” you need full width axles or you aint ˟˟˟˟”.I had to learn to build something for different terrain.Id love to get to see how you do it in Tn.

 

Thanks Willy!... PM sent.

 

Ed,I tried to pm you back it wouldnt work.I have a few sets of springs one set is a rancho lift set the other is standard.Ill cut you a hell of a deal on.

 

That would be sweet...how much lift are they? As soon as I sell some parts & get some $$$ I'll let you know, I got to get this SAS going, lol.

 

They say rancho on them,I think they are 3 inch,but im not sure.I also have a big pile of spring packs if you wanna spend some time and pull the main leafs and build custom packs.Pm me your number if you get picture messages and ill send some.

 

Cool thanks man!...PM sent.

 

My truck is sitting almost on the ground.Ready to get its t case.Thats as far as I got before an evil mazda 626 jumped in and ruined things.

 

Well today all of my ”friends” were to busy folding their pantys.But Travis,a local toyota guy from another toyota forum came over.It took us all of about 10 minutes to put my t case in.Thanks to Travis.

 

Nice, do you want to come out the right coast, my transmission /transfer case put in...lol

Great news ..Bill

 

Im going to build a mount for the crossmember in the am.Now that I can put atf in,maybe ill get her running sunday.Yea.