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[Gil BullyKatz]

Finally got around to starting work on replacing the Turdy five...

$50 surplus F-150 full width 8.8 w/4.10's and a trash loc...

5 x 5.5 pattern...

Looked into the MORE kit but decided to adhere to the Company guidelines and go cheap...

Just as beefy as the MORE perches but only $25 shipped to mi casa...

OEM axle bracketry came off easily with a 4" cut off wheel...

Welding tubes to housing and fabbing a truss to follow...

and yes the axle is upside down for you photo analysts...

Winterfest moved this project up on the priority list.

 

[Rev Den]

Don't forget new u-bolts.



Rev

 

[Gil BullyKatz]

Don't forget new u-bolts.



Rev

Chicago Spring and Bumper
4647 W Lake Street

$7.50 a piece vs MORE u-bolts at $11.50 a piece...

Unfortunately they don't have any leaf plates...

Any suggestion on local sources?

MORE wants $16.50 a plate

 

[Rev Den]

See if Brad can build them? You know they will NEVER bend.


Rev

 

[w_howey]

Check Napa, they had a ton of sizes available when I bought new ones.

 

[XJ_ranger]

whats going up front to match the full width rear?

Winterfest placed a necesity on my Full width 9" rear swap as well


, not sure if im going to be able to get both the hpd44 and the 9" in during the same weeked - so it looks like we'll both be running full width rear with a d30 front...

as for the plates - wouldnt any plates from a pick and pull that normaly worked for an 8.8 work?

 

[BOB]

Chicago 4647 W Lake Street

Any suggestion

Yeah, lock your Fing doors homeboy!

 

[Gil BullyKatz]

whats going up front to match the full width rear?

Winterfest placed a necesity on my Full width 9" rear swap as well
not sure if im going to be able to get both the hpd44 and the 9" in during the same weeked - so it looks like we'll both be running full width rear with a d30 front...

as for the plates - wouldnt any plates from a pick and pull that normaly worked for an 8.8 work?

Ixnay on the platenay....

Custom plates have been ordered and will be the bumpstop duty variety...

I've got a HP44 with Radius Arms sitting on the on deck circle...

I'm probably just going to do a little sleeving to the arms and attach a JJ at the frame end...

that's a slightly bigger project involving frame sleeving and custom crossmember/longarm mount under development by Cabo Manufacturing...

Did I mention I'm gonna get sawzall sickness as soon as the weather breaks?

:firedevil

 

[LBEXJ]

... wouldnt any plates from a pick and pull that normaly worked for an 8.8 work?

Yes, with some minor cutting/trimming.

 

[bgcntry72]

See if Brad can build them? You know they will NEVER bend.


Rev

Brad will be busy building his own junk for a long, long time.
He built me a set a while ago, but I never got them drilled out for bolts.
They have the bumpstop extension.
I don't know if they are here or there(IN), but we will look in to it.
I recently went with DPG plates, and have plates from my 8.25.
Let me know, Gil.
Scott.

 

[Gil BullyKatz]

Brad will be busy building his own junk for a long, long time.
He built me a set a while ago, but I never got them drilled out for bolts.
They have the bumpstop extension.
I don't know if they are here or there(IN), but we will look in to it.
I recently went with DPG plates, and have plates from my 8.25.
Let me know, Gil.
Scott.

Milwaukee's Best right?

Thanks

 

[Roxtar]

See if Brad can build them? You know they will NEVER bend.


Rev

Cabo Manufacturing motto:
Nothing exceeds like excess

 

[Rev Den]

Cabo Manufacturing motto:
Nothing exceeds like excess

AMEN


Rev

 

[BigDawgz]

I found some plates awhile back at a couple of different local farm stores...TSC...and Orchelyn...was where I found mine. These stores usually have all the plates and u-bolts and perches....just about anything you need. They have them in stock in around the same area that some of their cheap build-it-yourself trailer kits are located at. Some of them were chintzy...but I ended up finding some really heavy ones that worked well for the Zuki project I was doing. That first pic showing your spring perches shows some pretty bad pinion angles...lol.
ARon

 

[w_howey]

Ixnay on the platenay....

Custom plates have been ordered and will be the bumpstop duty variety...

I've got a HP44 with Radius Arms sitting on the on deck circle...

I'm probably just going to do a little sleeving to the arms and attach a JJ at the frame end...

that's a slightly bigger project involving frame sleeving and custom crossmember/longarm mount under development by Cabo Manufacturing...

Did I mention I'm gonna get sawzall sickness as soon as the weather breaks?

:firedevil

That HP44 is so f'ng heavy!!!!

What is happening to the D-30?

 

[Gil BullyKatz]

In true inner city chic...

I will use it to tie out my dawgz...