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Pics of my Dana 60 14BFF Install

jekquistk5 said:
Very nice deck over. I am looking at getting one just like that. I just do not want to pay the price that most shops want. I may just build a deck over.

Any reason you didn't buy a gooseneck?
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I went to Hardees Saturday morning to get some biscuits. I saw this trailer sitting on the side of the highway with a 4 sale sign on it and a number. I wrote it down but I didnt even call him because I knew it would be out of my budget. These are built in the next town over. I looked it up on the net and it was $6k + tax new. I called the guy the next day, he had used it to haul utvs on it and it was an 08 model. I ended up buying it for a little over a 1/3 the cost of a new one. I measured and the burb will fit perfectly with none of the truck riding on the dove tail. It also has a very nice $300 box from tsc welded on the front and and airtank. If I was buying new, I would have gotten a gooseneck. I couldn't pass this deal up though. I have a dually with an 18K# receiver weight carrying. The trailer is 14K# GVW. I towed it down to the weight station empty. It pulled like a dream and it weights almost 4,500#'s empty. My truck will do a great job with it. It has brakes on both axles and I have a maxbrake controller in the truck. I regularly tow 17K#'s on the ball with my boat with no problems. I can't wait to get to feeling a little better and load it all up and head to the muffler shop that a high school buddy owns that is about 110 miles from here. The tag along is also substantially shorter than a gooseneck for parking inside the shop. It has a 20' bed + a 5' dove that can haul as much weight as any other part of the trailer. The ibeams are huge on this thing!
 
Teck said:
Cool
Bet you cann't hardly wait.
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Excited is an understatement. I tracked down a buddy that I went to high school with that is the best free bender that I have ever seen. He did all my trucks before I got out of big 4x4's and went utv and total boat crazy. Since the stainless diesel dually kits are so nice and cost effective, we lost touch. He changed shops and phone numbers....etc..etc and it took me over a month to track him down. I told him what I was doing and he cleared his calender for the whole day on the 18th to do it. He said he wouldn't stop intil we were done. So, one way or another it will have exhaust on it in two weeks. Then all I need to do is final tune the motor with my wideband O2 meter and get the tranny dialed in and I will be ready to do some shakedown runs. :D
 
Got to like that.
I need to find someone here that can do a nice SS system on mine.
 
Teck said:
Got to like that.
I need to find someone here that can do a nice SS system on mine.
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If I had known that I would end up hooking up with him....I would have done all stainless on mine and bought stainless pipe. With me doing it, I figured it would cost me $5k with me having to redo pieces over and over. Aluminized steel is a cheap learning tool compared to stainless.:D
 
Since I can't do a ton of work each day yet, I am trying to do a little every weekend to get ready. I got it loaded up on the trailer but not tied down yet. Here are some pics.

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Cool pics
Your suburban really looks good.
I like it a lot.:thumb:
 
Teck said:
I really want a shop like your too.
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I appreciate it brother. I worked for years in a gravel driveway with 2 sheets of plywood to try to roll a cherry picker around on, out in the weather without even a car port. When I was able to build this shop, there is not a day I walk in it that I don't appreciate it. I also had a huge assortment of concrete blocks and cap blocks. I didn't even own a set of jack stands for years. :-)
 
Awesome pics dude!

Love the dmax and everything else you got...not jealous but it sure is sweet.

I try not to get jealous of anyone, it doesn`t do any good... but good for you man! :thumb::thumb:
 
Can't wait to see a video of it roadworthy, burnout!

By the way, that's sweet that your door is tall enough for the rig, on the trailer even!
 
I was thinking the same thing. It looks almost like one of those garages that are made for tractors and aircraft and other tall stuff to go in.
 
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