Update 5/04/2008
****, I haven’t updated since late January. Well it didn’t help I was out of town almost every weekend in March.
Memorial Day is three weeks away, so I got to get this pig going.
It’s not I wasn’t working on it, but a lot of small things kept me from making major progress.
First, my old rear springs in the front are worn out, so the rear was sitting higher than the front. Instead of replacing the springs in front, I decided to drop the rear a little. Another problem was my Cal-tracs wasn’t touching the top of the leaf springs. If I adjust the links, the links would run out of adjustment.
I decided to make new brackets instead of making longer links, but first I had to set the rear ride height.
This turned to be a fiasco, and I knew I was going to have to do all these steps.
I bought a set of drop shackles from
Blitzkrieg Motorsports.
After I installed the shackles, my pinion angle changed and my rear drive shaft was binding. So I got degree shims. My rear U-bolts was just barely long enough before, now with the shims in place the u-bolts are too short. So, I bought new U-bolts anyway, Yes I know I supposed to replace the U-bolts every time I take I take a set off.
Well, with the ride height set, I measure the angle where I wanted my Cal-tracs and designed new brackets.
Now, I’m sure some of you saw my
mishap with the fence in The Lodge. Well, I got the Blazer away from the fence, and got the axle shaft out to change the knuckle. Now some of you are wondering my 74 blazer should come with flattops already. But, the axle that is in blazer is a later model dana 44 the previous owner swapped in along with a mismatch geared 12-bolt in the rear. I’m hoping it the gearing is correct now since I put in a 14bsf with 3.73.
For my steering, I have made my drag link and tie rod. But the person I had to weld the bungs on got too much penetration and buggered up the threads in the drag link. The pit-man arm I got at the junk yard was too shallow and the nut is going to hit the frame. My neighbor fixed the left-hand threads on the drag link but I still need to get the tap for the right-hand threads. I rebuild a 2wd steering box and I got left is to do is the pre-load adjustments.
For my front brakes, I had the rotors turned today, and I packed the bearings with grease...twice, the first grease I used was for non-disc brakes.
And I had rebuilt calipers for a while and I painted the calipers to be mounted. I should get the brakes done during the week.
Oh yeah, I mounted my Art Carr shifter.
They want me to get done so we could have some fun.
