The rear calipers are the Caddy Eldos, and their ability to hold varies. Scott says that if rebuilt properly and kept in adjustment, they can work well, but that's a ton of work. I thought I'd splurge on a transfer case parking brake, then, and see how it worked. If it performed well, I could swap out the rear calipers for regular ones and simplify things a bit.
So I ordered Jess' setup from HAD. Bit of a gruff fellow, he is, but he's been helpful enough through this mess (which is, to be clear, entirely of my doing -- not his fault!
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First thing I discovered was that the rotor wouldn't fit in my particular case (ha! case, get it?) My Doubler is clocked up 2" so the 205 is tucked up against the body pretty well, and the rotor was banging up against the floor.
I've been debating a small body lift (I know, Martin, you swear by them) and this was the tipping point. Of course this meant that I had to cut & reweld a few bits of my tire carrier, as the body was now moving up in relation to the bumper & frame.
Notice the 45* dogleg in the upper right. No big deal, just more work and redoing something I'd just done
But that's getting ahead. I ordered a 1" body lift from ORD (crossing my fingers that would give me enough clearance) and in a fit of "MightAsWell-itis" got new poly body mounts as well.
Installing the body lift has several stages:
1. Fiddling through the instructions, which sometimes match up to the parts you are sent. Kind of.
2. Getting under the truck and pouring rusting into your eyes getting the old bits out. If you wear eye protection, the rust bits instead go up your nose.
3. Applying either very modulated amounts of force (i.e. to pop loose rusted bolts without breaking anything) or ridiculous amounts of force with prybars, the Hi-Lift, and the trusty ATV jack. This latter went under the sliders and held the entire side of the truck up quite evenly.
So I ordered Jess' setup from HAD. Bit of a gruff fellow, he is, but he's been helpful enough through this mess (which is, to be clear, entirely of my doing -- not his fault!
)First thing I discovered was that the rotor wouldn't fit in my particular case (ha! case, get it?) My Doubler is clocked up 2" so the 205 is tucked up against the body pretty well, and the rotor was banging up against the floor.
I've been debating a small body lift (I know, Martin, you swear by them) and this was the tipping point. Of course this meant that I had to cut & reweld a few bits of my tire carrier, as the body was now moving up in relation to the bumper & frame.
Notice the 45* dogleg in the upper right. No big deal, just more work and redoing something I'd just done
But that's getting ahead. I ordered a 1" body lift from ORD (crossing my fingers that would give me enough clearance) and in a fit of "MightAsWell-itis" got new poly body mounts as well.
Installing the body lift has several stages:
1. Fiddling through the instructions, which sometimes match up to the parts you are sent. Kind of.
2. Getting under the truck and pouring rusting into your eyes getting the old bits out. If you wear eye protection, the rust bits instead go up your nose.
3. Applying either very modulated amounts of force (i.e. to pop loose rusted bolts without breaking anything) or ridiculous amounts of force with prybars, the Hi-Lift, and the trusty ATV jack. This latter went under the sliders and held the entire side of the truck up quite evenly.
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hacked them all up) and I wanna un-do that mess, put it back to stock, but after that I do wanna dig into the 205 and fix it up.
to do 
