It'll be bindy and chirpy and stuff. I've run similar in the past. Better than welded but not as good as a clutch style.
It'll be bindy and chirpy and stuff. I've run similar in the past. Better than welded but not as good as a clutch style.
Just showing our set up for working under this rig.
Sold my EP3 and put the Kenwood in the truck, replacing the junk Blaupunkt I had in there. Kenwood is an older unit but was high end at the time, great for a vehicle I don't drive all the time.
At this point I had been building the truck in my head for several years and always intended to swap to a solid front axle with leaf springs. The first piece of the puzzle popped up on craigslist. A 77-79 F250 Dana 44.
The use of a Ford axle has the following benefits:
Differential on the left, allowing the use of the stock axle
High pinion
The Chevy outers all swap over allowing you to put together a hybrid axle that gives you left side drop, high pinion and Chevy 6 lug. That's the plan.
Going sas? Sweet!!!
Starting parts gathering. Still a lot to gather and decide but this is the biggest piece of the puzzle.
Next piece of the puzzle was coming up with a Chevy Dana 44 so I could harvest the outers the Ford axle to 6 lug and also getting a flat top right side knuckle that can be machined and tapped to accept a high steer/crossover steering arm.
All the trucks from the 70s and 80s had the u shaped steering arm on the left knuckle and used the front to back steering. This not only sucks but it won't work with he steering box in the truck.
The solution is crossover steering that uses a long drag link to cross over from the steering box to a steering arm on the right side knuckle.
Chevy D44:
old steering:
crossover steering:
Moving the axles around.
finally replaced the starter it's needed for four years, went with the gear reduction. no more "will it start"!
also, five year anniversary with the truck today
For the rear axle I elected to upgrade to a 9.5" semi float 14 bolt. This axle was used in F44 "heavy half ton" trucks and 6 lug light duty 3/4 tons. A 5 lug version was used in 454SS trucks. It's not as robust as the big 14 bolt full floater but it allows me to stay 6 lug and to keep weight down and ground clearance up.
This particular unit came from an old friend who now lives about five minutes from me. Also scored a few other small parts, some of which can be seen in the picture below.
SF14
Approve.
solfly said:also, five year anniversary with the truck today
Congratulations on your great car. I have owned a 2016 Ford F150 for 5 years. I'll have some pictures here soon.
Scored the cap for $100
Fired the parts Cannon this past weekend. Distributor, coil, module, plugs and wires. Revs clean through 5000 now. Coil and module were original. Should have replaced them when I swapped the engine but I was on a budget then.
Several large boxes from offroaddesign have landed
a bunch of random pictures doesnt make a build thread, this thread kinda sucks so I'm going to try to fix that over the next few days.
solfly said:I got a really great deal on a set of Firestone Destination MT in 315/70/17.
Then I just had to decide on and buy wheels to fit. Landed with 17x9 -12 American Racing AR72 in black.
Had to pick up the front a bit with the torsion bars to fit, rub the rear of the wheel wells some at full lock, I'll let them self clearance.
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