Well i finally have a pretty big update for the thread, so here it goes.
Starting friday the 25th me and a buddy got started on putting the lift kit on the ole turd,
we had the 14bolt painted and swapped in within like 3 hours, i didnt end up putting the add a leafs in yet, gonna have a shop do it when i get my upper balljoints replaced. So for the time being this is what it looks like.
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From there we started wrenching on the front end, the hard part was taking it apart. every single bolt was rusted in place, so when the pneumatic impact cant take it off its time to re evaulate. Not wanting to break anything we took it slow and did things the right way not wanting to screw anything up.
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The truck has been through a couple stages since yall have last seen it, so some of the stuff might be new to yall. Still working on my 350, im to the point where i might as well take the time and build a 383 so the 350 is gonna be put on hold till i can afford parts for it.
Any ways, the front took about 3 days, to tear down completely without breaking any bolts, (ill have to grab some new pics of everything) once we got it tore down we started back on re building it, the truck got a bunch of new front end parts as well, im still waiting on my upper control arms and camber caster bolts to ship. I got most of the crossmembers and drop brackets put in, and it all started to align from there. The only real issue i had was the tosion keys being rusted to the bars, simple solution was to unbolt the crossmember and pound it backwards.
Worked well XD.
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With the help of my buds and a few beers later we were having a good weekend and finally finished it up and got it back together.
Yeah im the twig in the back. Fresh off work and grinding. XD
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She finnaly got all put together and sat on her own weight for the first time at 3 am on a friday. She got new tierods and pass side balljoint so it all feels solid in the front end for once.
Took it into work the next day and threw it on the alignment rack and gave her a rough camber/toe alignment, the caster wasnt too far out so i just left it.