I finally bought another 80's truck

[Drunkcanuk]

Glad to hear your health is doing good.
Any hints as to the color scheme?
Or are you gonna surprise us? Lol

 

[Ando069]

So excited folks all original panels (except hood)... she is looking good. I Kept the color.. except my painter took the "purple" out. we ended up a little darker than the garnet red but really close..

going to try to do the 4/2 drop this weekend!...

 

[Ando069]

Rear suspension today.. even more excited... dude before me used anti sieze!!!!

 

[Drunkcanuk]

Rear suspension today.. even more excited... dude before me used anti sieze!!!!

You don't know how lucky you are!!!! Lol
Go grab a lotto ticket on your first run with it!!!
I had a hell of a battle with my shackles.
Damn.... looking good, gonna be awesome with a bit of an altitude adjustment.

 

[Drunkcanuk]

Have you gotten the bolts out yet?
If not, this is what it took to get mine out.

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Cut the head off the bolt, then kept stacking washers to draw the bolt through. Lots of lube and cussing!

 

[Ando069]

Have you gotten the bolts out yet?
If not, this is what it took to get mine out.

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Cut the head off the bolt, then kept stacking washers to draw the bolt through. Lots of lube and cussing!

I got them out one faught me..
UPDATE ON HOW I DID THIS:
In the likes of this maybe helping someone else I'll post my issue with the Passenger side Shackle bolt.
1. I was able to easily get the "NUT" off..
2. I was able to spin the bolt but seemed the bolt was seized in the sleeve of the bushing and when I tried to turn it (unscrew) from hole... I noticed the whole Leaf was moving with my effort.
3. I used a Diablo Medium Metal blade to cut the head of the bolt off took about 15 minutes.
4. I stacked washers and tried to see if it would back out. But issue number 2 prevented me from using this method.
5. I used the medium metal blade to cut the threaded end of the Bolt off as close as i could to the shackle perch. (FYI: using a new portion of the worn blade went thru the bolt like butter maybe 30-40 seconds)
6. I preloaded the spring just a bit, opened up the perch minimally until the leaf/shackle twisted inside the perch.
7. With a jack stand just a few inches below my jack height i lowered the vehicle until the spring and shackle popped out.
8. had a beer.

 

[Ando069]

Left side done right side almost done but had obligations... but here it is.. its not all the way down yet and everything is just snugged up.. hoping to get the belltech spindles in this week.. back on road this weekend..

 

[Ando069]

Crap... seems I busted the brake line on the passenger/rear right at the back plate of the drum.. I just went out to take a few pics and saw the fluid under the drum...

 

[Ando069]

For anyone with their ears on... the front going down today via belltech -2" spindles... why dont mechanics leave enough of the closed end of cotter pin sticking out???

 

[Ando069]

Okay alot of lalagagin .. decided to run around and find bearings/ rotors / pads... then i stopped for pizza... came home and... finished one side...

The bearings fell out of the ring all over the place so glad i found bearings