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All in all not too shabby.
 
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werd up peoples. been kicking it back at UGA hanging with some ladies!



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Well, I'm home from working on Pauls bronc-ho! As soon as the pics get into my photobucket account, I'll send them over here. I would have been home sooner, but it was so nice this afternoon we took off to drink a few beers and do a little fishing. Caught a few bluegill, nothing special, but drank a few beers so it was worth while!.

Pics a coming.....
 
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damn cheeto wish i had sumthing you were lookin for i agree that if you put that blue bed on that truck it would like nice painted to match
 
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so i'm about to the point of giving up and turning in this final and test half assed and hoping everyone else fails so it gets curved.
 
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All right here they are:

Nick an fat boy me making some spacers for the track bar lower mount. We welded the rear spacer to the new bracket so that it won't get lost, the front spacer is 1/4" and will make sure the rod end has enough room to move and not get hit or bind up:



Paul was a little concerned about the track bar hitting. It is slightly forward of the cover and has 2" clearance from the bottom of the bar to the top/front of the diff cover. Only time and testing will tell if it will hit. I measured mine and it was about in the same spot and I've never hit mine:



Paul, the 5" bolt was too long, I'll leave it to you to cut off or get a shorter grade 8 bolt!! This is how the passenger side knuckle has the ends placed. Note the misalignment bushings are only needed on the draglink. The tie rod will never be "flexed" from the point it is in, it is there only for a twisting motion during turning.



And the final product, awaiting Paul to bring down some 8 lug wheels, lugnuts and oh yeah, brakes!!!!

 
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Old 05-04-2008, 09:46 PM
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Oh, and the fluid is brake clean, I wasted a can tryign to cleans up some of the gunk that was still on the diff when we started. Paul, you need to clean that thing!!! lol
 
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sweet..

I'll let you know a little later in the week when I can make it back down, can't wait to test it out though

lol i'll get it cleaned up and painted when i bring it back home
 
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I hope it's what you expected, cause it's all welded in now, so too late!!!
 
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yeah, it looks awesome. better than anything I could've done!
 
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Ok so im pissed. I sent that guy $100 to hold that dizzel then my way up got called out on a job site for 3 weeks so i do the right thing and let the guy know asap that i wouldnt be able to take it. Well i asked for my money back because he never said anythin about it bein nonrefundable. Well no hes bein an *** sayin that i just tried to waste his time. So if i dont get my money back ima neg rep him and give him a neg trade rating.
 
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Thanks! And for those out there thinking of doing this swap, my buddy Nick and I will do it for you. Obviously there would be a cost involved and you need to supply ALL of the parts. I will give you a parts list to get specifically what is needed. PM me if interested!

I don't want to make a living out of this, but I need to raise funds to get the ranger together, and we thought this would be a good way to do it. The SAS or D60 upgrade is fairly easy now that I've done it 3 times.....
 
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hey Karl,

did you tap the ends of the DOM for the heims, b/c i dont see any inserts?

are those reg. misalignment spacers or high misalignment on the draglink?
 
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Originally Posted by crazyredneckanyhow
Well no hes bein an *** sayin that i just tried to waste his time. So if i dont get my money back ima neg rep him and give him a neg trade rating.
He took your $100 on your going to give him bad rep?

id be making a trip up there asap and getting it back.....
 
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Old 05-04-2008, 10:21 PM
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Well its a 9 hr trip so itd be more fullfilling to give him neg rep. I mena if i told a deposit on somethin and the buyer couldnt make it then id just give the money back. It only seems fair to me.
 


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