So we'll try imgur out for a few posts and see what happens.
Front end on the unicorn was sloppy and the car was wandering a bit. I have bare HP30/XJ44 housings on the shelf for this build, but am not there yet, and couldn't wait. I was going to just rebuild the front with the 2wd beam, but Asa brought me a 3.55 geared lp30, so I slapped that in.
The dirtiest axle I have ever seen. Came out of a rock quarry.
So, off with the old.
Tossed in some new bumpstops and coils.
The bumpstops are just OEM replacement Crown Automotive stuff. The coils are RV778's from Rock Auto. OEM height progressive coils, with the same 2" spacer above them I ran before.
Slap in the new axle, and knock the balljoints out.
They were TIGHT in the housing. We broke Dallas's balljoint press and ended up borrowing a new OTC press from a friend.
Seriously, we did damage to the joints removing them.
New Spicer joints going in.
Before going too far into reassembly, we did UCA bushings as well. Replaced them with JK UCA bushings. Bolt in replacements, but uses a 7/16 bolt (or some communist metric equivalent). Had to drill the UCA's for the bigger bolt.