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‘82 GMC “Junkyard JIMMY” {Build bash Rebuild}

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I think it would be awesome if you painted the JIMMY like that and then went back to that spot and took another pic in front of the mountains. How cool would that be? :D

I think that military camo designers should take the approach you're taking - looking at exsiting terrain and trying to match it (or at least basing their patterns on it), instead of coming up with an idea in their head that will supposed blend fairly well into "most any" terrain. You know what that means - soldiers are going to stand out like sore thumbs and get killed because they're poorly camflauged. In fact, that's exactly what happened not too long ago.
 
That's the thing. The desert has so many different patterns.

During the drive out there alone there is at least 6 different patterns in these same basic colors. I've tried to post a few as I travel around for this exact reason.

I'll come up with another pattern this weekend.

I know I could just mock the desert storm camo but it's been done before.

Mine will be region specific. Cali Camo if you will...
 
I can't wait. It gonna be epic.




Fail

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I went for a test run and broke my drive shaft. :doah:

Time to upgrade.

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Wait a minute now. Just how and why did that happen? Did you have the pinion to t-case angle right? Straps bolted down good? We have to figure out the cause so this won't happen again.
 
It broke at the new slip yoke. If the pinion angle was off don't you think it would have broke on my mid build run?
If you look at the side by side Yoke photo you can see there is more metal around the cap.
I think that extra metal caused the shaft to contact the yoke popping the cap off.

I don't know. Now I need a new shaft.
 
That makes sense. Guess you'll have to grind the ears down if it looks like they're going to make contact.
 
I would rather it happen here then out in the middle of the desert.
I feel lucky to have made the last trip without being stranded.

I did 2 major things wrong when I set up my rear.

1- I flipped the spring around and shortened the wheel base by 1.5".

This didn't work good because it made the angle of the shaft too steep.

2- I installed the pinion shim backwards. I put the skinny side to the front to angle the pinion straight to the T-case. It "looked" good but I didn't measure it with an angle finder.

The pinion angle was pretty much in line to the shaft.

After talking to a driveline specialist and texting with Superbro. I decided the best thing to do I take some measurements and fix it.

Parked in the driveway I checked my Tcase angle it was sitting at 0*
the pinion was sitting at 15 upward.

I flipped my leaf springs around and made sure the shims were fat side forward. I put the tires on and sitting at ride height today the new measurements are
T-case 0*
Pinion 5* going up.

So meow that the Tcase and pinion are closer to parallel the U joints should function properly.


I will go down to to the driveline shop tomorrow and give the pro my measurements and he'll build me a rock solid highway friendly driveline.

You can learn a lot from a dummy. Don't do what I did.
 
I always try to learn from other's mistakes. It's cheaper that way. :)

I learned from this site to not have your pinion and driveshaft be in a straight line, but to have the pinion pointing down slightly when the truck is at normal ride height.
 
Don't do this

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I got bored so I welded my yoke back together. :weld:

Don't do this. It will never work. :deal:

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Really, don't do this.

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Then I added the Conversion joint and shaved a little off the corners for good measure.

I'm afraid to mount it.:haha:


I'm waiting for my new custom driveline.
Lets not talk about the budget. This is one thing I don't want to skimp out on.
Let's just say I had to put a deposit down on it.:doah::pimp:

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Looks pretty solid to me. That's what a driveshaft shop would do. But since you have a new one on the way, the one you fixed will make a great spare.
 
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