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As promised pictures of the PO's handy work. Sorry for the picture quality I got a little to close. As you can see the u-bolts are to short and not parallel with each other, nuts welded to axle, bolts welded to springs, spring center pin not over axle. Because the axle is longer the springs don't sit on the pads, u-bolts don't align with holes. The list goes on and on.
I already have the proper axle, new king pins, disk brake conversion, set of 5 on 5.5" wheels and tires. Still need to find some springs and new linkage.
Oh and the front wheels had the center hubs cut out and welded back together with hub caps over them to hide it.
I pride myself in being a accomplished butcher, but that surpasses even my skills.
That is some scary stuff, if that is indicative of the work done on the truck I would be inspecting everything carefully.
Time for new springs IMO, even though it looks like he may not have put enough heat them to hurt them.
Thought some of you might enjoy a new picture taken this weekend. Got that PO's nightmare pulled out.
Already picked up another axle, set of springs, and a king pin replacement kit. Just trying to decide if I'm going to remove some of the leafs to lower it before I assemble. Oh - and my helper agreed this will be much safer for cruising.
06-11-2015, 09:52 AM
I thought my PO was bad. I'm still fixing his handwork as I find it.
