SAS build thread... Project: Green Seal

[Cajun4x4]

well finally starting my build thread... ive been collecting for some time now and im closing in on actualy getting underway.

specs of the build are as such:

-fresh 3/4 ton 10 bolt front, open with 5.13s
-rebuilt and mildly shaved 14ff with 5.13s, disk brakes and a detriot
-used ORU SAS brackets with 7" shackles
-Crossover steering
-OOBS dodge 52s
-clocked, pass. drop np241
-7" shackles in the rear and the moving of my shackle flip again
-ford shock towers
-14" travel 5100s (inboarded in the rear)
-K30 master cylinder
-38.5x15/16.5 Boggers
-recentered H1 double beadlocks
-square front shaft with a 1350 Tom Woods superflex joint up top

all of this will not go on at one time, rather in stages as funds allow

and on to the pics...

shaving on the 14 (sorry for the upsidedown pic)

ORU brackets (yes, one of the front hangers has an irrelivant dent, and all the backing plates are there)

ruffstuff disck brake brackets

gearing of the 14

flattops

to be recentered H1s

ill update as i buy things/progress is made

 

[Cajun4x4]

lopped off the remaining perch on my 14 today and painted it and my disc brackets... then after that i ****ed up hinges on teh door of my truck, hooray

 

[Cajun4x4]

well picked up my 90' 241(thanks B_to_C)... also my guage pod came in

also the clocking ring from GLO, the pitman arm i bought from Bryan, and the 2.5" catco highflow cats that came in a week or so ago

14ff housing = $100
flattop knuckles = $83 (shipped)
5.13 14ff gears = $193.5
14ff install kit = $111
(shipping, gears etc = $20)
4- H1 rims with runflats = $75
8lugged 10bolt = $250
gas to go to GA = $215
ball joints = $101
s44/1350 conversion u joint = $22.88
14ff wheel studs = $44.68
calipers = $23.1 + $30 for cores
rotors = $39.90
banjo bolts = $6.85
brake pads = $16.78
85 K30 master cylinder = $21.57
hard brake line = $5.70
10blt bearings/seals/grease= $55
disc brackets=$55
ORU brackets = $425
4 - 38.5x15/16.5 boggers= $650
1990 np241= $150, shipping= $100
Greatlakeoffroad 241 clocking ring= $67 shipped
2- catco highflow cats= $118 shipped
drop pitman arm reemed for GM TRE= $56 shipped

.......$2996.05 so far

 

[Cajun4x4]

my 7" rear diy4x shackles came in, pictured next to an ORU shackle

also ordered, 14ff perches, d44 and 14ff spring plates, 7" UDSR shackles offset 1/4" and a few heavy washers from diy4x and crown performance braided stainless lines, 36" long with the correct fitting for my ifs lines up top and a 10mm banjo block down at the bottom from shane74

my usa6x6 (

) pressed centers got shipped to my Apt instead of citizenrider's house in Tx... they have since been picked up and on their way to his place... i guess i can count my blessing that i even got them at all, took 13 days lol, better than the 10 weeks or years it has taken some ppl to get their crap

 

[chevysmithz71]

Looks good. Should have put out the cash for the Dana 60. I know you have heard it though.I wish I would have on my SAS. May think about cutting the shock brackets off the 14b, look like they could hold you up on something.

Heres mine;

 

[Cajun4x4]

yea i know i should have gotten a 60 etc, but i couldnt pass up this 10blt that was rebuilt like 5k ago, brand new locking hubs that have never been installed and 5.13s... after teh initial swap ill start saving for a 60 etc. i agree with you on the shock tabs, but they are gonna stay so i can temporarily mount my rear shocks until i get an inboarding kit from kert... i remember you truck from gmfs, it looks good. you been doin any wheelin?

I put the 241 in yesterday and everything works fine, but... its leaking so i get to pull it back off today and fix that (yay), pics will come later as i dont have any means of uploading them on shelby's computer.

ughh not lookin forward to the hour long drive home with straight exhaust manifolds

 

[chevysmithz71]

Just went up to the hills yesterday for some paintball and wheeling, bent my tierod but that was about it. I understand the deal with the 10bolt. As I only have a D44 myself.
I did the same thing with my 205 in the Blazer. Put it in, looked good, then the next day leaks.
Atleast you will get a lot of looks, might find someone worthy to look back at. I got yelled at a few times from old ladies yelling "Thats to tall" as they went by. I just laughed. I'll keep looking on the fullsize site for progress.

 

[79k20350]

Wait, arent the oru shackles offset? It doesn't look liek the diy4x ones are...

 

[Cajun4x4]

Wait, arent the oru shackles offset? It doesn't look liek the diy4x ones are...

yes the oru ones are off set but those arent the DIY ones im using up front those are the ones im gonna be using in the back...

well driving back from lake charles with no exhaust fvcking sucked, but what sucks about 10000 times more is that i fvcked up the mating surface of my 241... apparently your not supposed to tighten studs into an aluminum tcase as hard as we did yesterday. the threads on the short side of the stud wher about 1/4" longer than the thickness of the ring so we figured tighten them real good so they dont come out, yea not such a good idea. after we pulled it out and saw what we did, the only thing we had available to try and fix it was jb weld , so we filled in the spots with that and filed it down, added a liberal layer of RTV and commenced to reinstalling... all seemed to be going smoothly untill after i filled the case again and backed it up 20 feet so i could clean the shop, well it leaks again, so im gonna try a few things to help my cause here in the next few days, but if i cant get it right, i guess ill have to bring it to a machine shope and get the spots filled in with weld and milled down flush. oh what a joyous day, and now the pics

massaged floorboards

 

[Cajun4x4]

what realy burns my ass is that GLO did not include one peice of paper with the ring, just the hardware in a box... a simple sentence or possibly two could have averted this crap from happening

 

[Chevy305]

I wanna subscribe to this one...

 

[divorced]

I wanna subscribe to this one...

 

[Chevy305]

ya thanks...

I know how to subscribe to a thread...

 

[divorced]

ya thanks...

I know how to subscribe to a thread...

Ok, cool. I was also helping the other 1,200 people who will reply with a useless line like yours. It makes it difficult to follow a build thread that has a dozen or so posts with information disrupted with 1,200 subscribers.

 

[muddybuddy]

hopefully it works out. get that thing all taken care of and hopefully we'll meet up at tellico this summer

 

[Cajun4x4]

some pics from last night...

carnage

patched up

 

[Cajun4x4]

more goodies

i had ordered some offset UDSR shackles and upon their arrival it was clearly visible they where identical to my off the shelf UDSRs... one call to the good ppl at DIY4X and the correct shackles are on their way

 

[muddermilitia]

maybe I missed it somewhere but why offset shackles? anyway keep up the good work that things gonna be sweet when its done!

 

[twoslo4five0]

my 7" rear diy4x shackles came in, pictured next to an ORU shackle

also ordered, 14ff perches, d44 and 14ff spring plates, 7" UDSR shackles offset 1/4" and a few heavy washers from diy4x and crown performance braided stainless lines, 36" long with the correct fitting for my ifs lines up top and a 10mm banjo block down at the bottom from shane74

my usa6x6 (

) pressed centers got shipped to my Apt instead of citizenrider's house in Tx... they have since been picked up and on their way to his place... i guess i can count my blessing that i even got them at all, took 13 days lol, better than the 10 weeks or years it has taken some ppl to get their crap

thoose shackles look mighty fimilar!!!

 

[Cajun4x4]

maybe I missed it somewhere but why offset shackles? anyway keep up the good work that things gonna be sweet when its done!

i need them to be offset for my sas hangers, its just the way they are built to get the springs in the right place