a51young

I should be getting my ome kit, with ball joint spacers and steering stabalizer tomorrow, should be able to get it in this weekend hopefully.

BuzzardsGottaEat

Finally!

a51young

got my rear ome stuff put in today! It was a real pain not having the right spring compressor though. Now the front will hopefully get done tomorrow

Before, rim to wheel well:





After:

a51young

and all done

BuzzardsGottaEat

Looks great, man. I bet it rides like a dream in comparison. It was night and day when I upgraded my shocks.

a51young

I plan on heading out this weekend to see the real differences

a51young

I was on ebay a while back discovering the penny biding items with free shipping from china, one of the things I finaly got was a standalone 12v led. I decided to try putting it in the rear to replace the not so bright back up lights.



I think it'll need some work, I got it all slapped back together, tested it, it was a lot brighter, but then started flickering and then went out.



this is one of the same leds, as an example. It is pretty bright, here

a51young

some pics from today:

















130 miles round trip from my place

a51young

Put in a panhard drop bracket and lspv bracket from 4crawler today

before:



After:

lofreqjeff

Lookin good man! Ready to do some wheelin this weekend??

a51young

Yep! My diff drop from 4crawler should be in tomorrow, hopefully I'll have time to put in in that evening. If not, it should be fine the way it is.

lofreqjeff

You should be ok without the diff drop if you don't get around to it before we head out.

After doing the BJ spacers, I started tearing CV boots because of the high angle but after the diff drop it was fine.

a51young

diff drop put in. Took a lot longer than expected to get the holes and stuff all lined up.

before:




after:

90runnerkid

Nice job on the lift install! When I put the ball joint spacers on mine, even with the diff drop I had some binding of the CVs at full droop. I shimmed my upper droop stops to prevent that from happening - did you run into anything like that?

a51young

Thanks dude! I'm not getting any binding with the CVs

a51young

today, china dam and fort tule, with lofreqjeff and a few other people, great time!



there was some water moving a little bit






fort tule


they used cans and other bits if metal in their concrete to make this fortification

BuzzardsGottaEat

You bastard.


I really need to road trip out to AZ soon. We need to do some wheeling/shooting like old times.

BuzzardsGottaEat

Hopefully that lame Bowers guy will make it whenever it does happen.

a51young

haha yeah dude! Maybe you can get out of the snow this winter and enjoy some nice weather out here!

BuzzardsGottaEat

I sure hope so. My joints hurt already. Truck needs paint though. You see, here in the Midwest we have this thing called rust . . . haha