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Josh40601's Build Thread. (D-ranged)
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PM sent with an awesome deal!
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once your truck is streetable, im nominating you. this thing is badass!
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dude, thanks so much. Glad to know I am not the only one who thinks its kick ass. Kieth is going today to get 3 bolt flanges for the motorcage so when i pull the motor, all i have to do is unbolt those flanges and the cross bars come right out. I will be going back out Wednesday to snag some pics and finish up the rear.
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whats the angle that the arms are bent out at? looks good.
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no idea. We bent everything with a manual bender. eyeballed it, bent it, test fit, bent it a little more. Just kept doing that until we got all 4 tubes bent. Each piece started at a 36" piece. Not sure of the length now.
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now thats what you call custom! hurry the fawk up!
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finally got an update.... Its still not done, but this sucker has some travel!!
Here is a look at just how much travel this thing will have. You can see the rear in the top picture is maxed out and sits about 6 inches higher than the front.
Here is a look at just how much travel this thing will have. You can see the rear in the top picture is maxed out and sits about 6 inches higher than the front.
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Damnnn sick dude
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Thanks man. I have been watching almost all the swaps on many different forums, and I will have to toot my horn a little by saying its one of the more complex SAS builds. I only wanted to do a simple swap like most do, but the guy doing all the welding and who is helping with building the truck made a very good point. he told me, "Your gonna spend all this money and have what you want. For a little bit (wow he lied) more, you can have something totally kick ass." You tell a redneck he has a choice between totally kick ass and something cheaper, whats he gonna do?
haha yeah but thats a lie for sure!!! people even had me convinced mine was gonna be $2000, and here i am at 4K and counting....
but yours is kick ass, no doubt mine will get a similar makeover someday when i design something crazy...and actually can afford to do it!
but yours is kick ass, no doubt mine will get a similar makeover someday when i design something crazy...and actually can afford to do it!
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I aint much farther ahead of ya. I have about 6 grand in the front end. As far as the rear, About a grand with springs, blocks, axle, gears and locker.
so have you ever heard of anyone doing a sas and loosing power to their dash lights and tail lights? my blinkers, reverse lights, and brake lights all work, but both my tail lights wont. i also have fog lights hooked up to a stock switch on my dash and those dont work either. ever heard of such a thing?
and are you going to be running your stock transfer case? and does your front drive shaft extend and compress from the transfer case, or on the driveline itself?
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