OK. So, there has been some progress made over the past week and a half or so... I got rid of the wedges and trackbar mount, and ground down the welds to the axle tubes, flap disc/wire wheeled the entire housing, and tore it down completely from the axle shafts-out. I decided to leave the 44 at ~65" WMS and not to turn the knuckles after concluding that A) with my plan to run in the range of 4.5" to 5.5" of lift, with 6* caster, on the HP axle my pinion angle isn't too bad at all, and B) I'd probably be likely to do more damage than good by messing with them :gee: Since I'm not exactly the best of welders, my good friend Scott helped me get started on burning on the coil buckets/LCA brackets last night. I'll be ordering my Reid Racing knuckles this week, and thought it best to wait on those to show up so I can mock up some steering before dealing with the UCA bracket and axle side panhard bracket.
I also got started on the Exploder backing plates for the rear disc setup, opened up the mounting holes and got them to fit up nicely. I still need to drill the ZJ rotors for a 5 on 5.5 pattern, but otherwise all I need to get that back together is pads and soft lines.
Finally, I got rid of the god-awful blocks in the rear, and have the stock shackles out, ready to be replaced with some RE ones, just need to get new hardware and then that will be back together as well.
Now for some pictures
damn wedges...
Smoooooth tubes
Only have one pic of starting the teardown...
I'm just realizing I didn't snap any pictures of it all wire wheeled and pretty
haha, oh well. too busy making progress I suppose :thumbup:
Coil buckets/LCA's burned in at 6* caster with a quick coat of paint to ward off the rust
backing plates fit nicely.
So, it was nice to finally be able to post some progress!! Took long enough, that's for sure. Should have more pictures soon enough of other things, so stay tuned :roll: Also, comments/suggestions/constructive criticism are very welcomed, I'm new to this whole fab-to-fit world, and it's quite the learning curve. I'd be happy to see what everyone thinks so far...
