SoCal '85 6.2L Jimmy build

[solvire]

Finally got back at it.

Looking over my notes I think a lot has been done.

The infernal plumbing looks to be all back in place.

All steering components were put back together.
I also por-15'd over the beautiful brazing by Todd.

So now it's almost a roller.

 

[solvire]

I ran into an issue. And I am not sure how to deal with it.
We had to rotate the motor angle back a little for things to fit.
Now there is this obtuse angle on the drive shaft and it wont flex enough to hit the front diff. It hit 32* and binds up. I know the saginaw is pretty shallow but this is kinda ridiculous. What about guys with 12" of lift? Anyway Trying to get to a driveshaft shop to build another CV for me.

 

[solvire]

If you recall i was peeling tons and tons of wires out of the truck. That useless ECM.
I decided to put in an EZ kit for a chevy application we had laying around. I was having such a hard time getting the right wires to match up and not feeling very confident in the old connections.

Got some practice building weatherpacks

 

[solvire]

More angle pics of the saginaw bindage

Set up the oil filter relocation

 

[K85 Octane]

yeah, there's a lot of extra "meat" there on that CV. In order to use it, the stops need to be ground down and the rest of the beef can be reduced. I count 10 locations that need grinding and radius-ing. The CV's you get from Tom Woods or HAD, etc will already have that stuff missing or ground off. Is this a 1310 or 1350?

 

[sreidmx]

Yup I second the driveshaft grinding, remove the ears completely and grind anywhere it's touching. You do not have enough lift to ever kill it.

 

[solvire]

I do know the angle of the shaft is a bit high at close to 40* but seeing guys with 12" of lift I have to imagine that i'm nowhere close to that. I'm sitting around 4"
I couldn't clock the t-case anymore either so that is kinda stuck.

I'll try the grind and pray method and see how long it lasts me.

 

[sreidmx]

@bergerking is using my old shaft and he's got 6 inch lift and it's survived fine.

 

[solvire]

@sreidmx i think the angle of the motor has caused me a lot of issues.
But I'm going to try and let you guys know. Worst case i destroy the shaft and get a new one. As long as i don't do it in BFE

 

[sreidmx]

I didn't realize that..

 

[AgDieseler]

@sreidmx i think the angle of the motor has caused me a lot of issues...

I had a similar problem when setting up my new front springs - the CV maxed out and the angle delta was too great for a CV anyway. Tom Woods ended up making me regular two joint shaft where the rear used their offset u-joint along with some grinding of the yokes.

When I setup my doubler, I decreased the rearward slope of the drivetrain, which helped a lot with the front driveline angles.

It's not too useful past 20mph, but it works very well on the trails. Just another option if you needed one.

David

 

[solvire]

Thanks @AgDieseler good info
Definitely wont be able to go race speed with that kind of angle. There isn't much of an option either with how that motor sits in there. it probably needed to be lowered and have a custom oil pan made, but I'm kinda stuck where it's at now.