Well after months of waiting for parts and procrastination my parts are starting to come in, which means it is time to get to work. I decided to go with a Trail Gear SAS kit for this swap, as it is my first big job like this and it makes things a lot simpler and comes with all the little things like an axle rebuild kit. Everything in the kit looks nice so far, the only things that look a little cheap are the Front leaves... but they can always be upgraded later. For the rear of the truck I went with a set of Skyjacker springs because I got a great deal on them. Here are a couple pics of the truck on its last trip out up at the Coke plant in... april?.. I think?
3" Body, 2"susp 33X9.5 BFG A/T's
I think when I am done I should have 5" of suspension and the 3" body... I will propably end up removing the body lift, but I will try it out at first.. As of now it looks like I am going to be running a set of 36X12.5" TSL's.
A shot of my new axle still in the donor truck
IFS removed brackets still hanging
I cut most of the brackets off of the drivers side last night, the hardest part seems to be grinding down the welds to smooth out the frame, Maybe I need a courser grinding disc or something.
Got all of the front end stuff in this week.... I have alot of work ahead of me as this NEEDS to be done for the august long weekend... or I have missed a whole summer of wheelin'
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