Nice work on the Homeade knuckle gussets. Im also running 5.29's with 33's. wish I could afford 35's

 

How is that combo for you? 5:29/33. So far I am only running the bottom gusset on the knuckle. The axle is slow going. I discovered one of the hubs that came of the axle cannot be used, its not the 6 stud 2 bolt kind. A trip to inchworm gear soon to pick up me 2 3rd's will remedy that, Scott says he has the correct hub. When the axle is 100% done then I will secure a place to do the swap.

 

I messed with my potential front drive shaft today. 2" .250 wall / 1.5" .250 wall. I ground a groove in the smaller square wall tube to mesh with the weld seem inside the bigger tube. A little flapper wheel smoothing and she fits pretty good.

 

Sweet

 

I have been thinking of how to keep grease in the driveshaft and taking up a little slop there will always be. Just a thought.

 

Sweet!

 

I like.

 

Driving today 180 miles to get my diff's and 1 hub.

 

And I am so happy, got my 3rd's

 

And they are 5:29'z.

 

Sweet

 

Let me use one haha.

 

Dude no kidding. You and I are more or less on the same page with both our SAS and lift projects. I am so looking forward to this. Awesome work man. You're actually ahead of me. Hahaha I haven't gotten my 3rd back yet. And I haven't taken my rear one yet either. Darn you! Lol jk looks like I got my work cut out for me haha

 

You are a lot farther than I. My axle was really gross. Taking forever to clean it :/

 

Haha man my axle was disgusting too. Check out the last 2 or 3 pages of my thread and you'll see all crap I had to clean up. Its been a huge transformation.

 

Its hard to clean inside the thing. I am going to shop vac the inside as it is dry, and see if I can get the last specs out.
Tonight I am going to sand blast the axle outer, knuckles and hubs. Then the paint goes on. I need some hub studs too. Rear third perhaps friday, so it can sit overnight and cure. Can't wait.

 

Lucky! You have a sand blaster???? So is that easier or harder to do vs doing it how I did with the wire wheel?

 

Hey Tuef, you didnt get lockers? I think i see spider gears in there.
We're both seriously gonna have to meet up one day for a nice off-road trip and leave Chefyota behind in our dust hahaha jk definitely looking forward to getting mine back from the shop. I wanna start already too

 

The sand blaster is at the weld shop at Napa valley college. I am just about to complete an AS degree in welding. All my welding classes are done. I have 2 Foo foo classes to finish up, come May/June I graduate. I am a volunteer in the weld dept, so I can go in anytime there are classes and mess around.

I could barely afford the 3rd's, budget. The rear locker for starters will go in towards the end of the summer.

 

I have access to a parts washer and blast booth.....but I'm lazy. Got the knuckles cleaned and painted but think I'm gonna repaint to a gloss black...

Ya, I need some hub studs too, Napa perhaps