So yesterday was a very long and busy day for me.
I put some fuel in the jeep and the gauge did this. I think something might be stuck...
Drove the jeep over to Longview/Kelso to the shop that my uncle and cousin work on a race truck in (Worlds fastest modified diesel truck, 16 cylinder detroit diesel engine.
http://www.jointventureracetruck.com/). But before I could do any work we had to help out with the current projects, which today was tearing down the trailer they use to haul the truck to the salt flats. Holy rusted metal batman!
and here is a cool panoramic of the trailer and one end of the shop with the race truck in pieces in the background
So after tearing that trailer down I finally got to work on the jeep. Took the old Dana 35 out and tossed it off to the side.
Here it is with no axle.
Now to the 8.8, Here is my cousin cutting off the old spring perches and the sway bar brackets. (Yes i did some of the work on this, I just couldn't take pictures of myself).
Here it is ready to be cleaned up.
Unfortunately i didn't get any pictures of the perches mounted up or us re-working the brakes.
Here it is all bolted in though. We decided to make some custom shock mounts to improve my ground clearance, so I will need new shocks in the near future.
Also a closeup of my new shock mounts.
Here it is all done. I gained another 1-2 inches with this thing too.
and to top all of it off I get to come home to a BRAND NEW bed.
This project took us about 5 hours of work, and really wasn't that hard at all. You lose about 2 inches or so of width but it is barely noticeable. I tested out the 4wd and everything functions properly now! Getting ready to schedule a brown scamp trip very soon.
All that's left it to fix some of the small issues like only having high beams (bad switch), and fixing my tail lights and blinkers.