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Pulled the F150 into the drive way, wheeled the 05 Dana 60 in front of it from the backyard on the beat-to-shit Harbor Freight Dollies it’s been sitting on for 2+ years. Pulled the front bumper.

Gonna need to get some metal to build a jacking/hoisting crossmember for the front; plan is to wheel the axle under there and lower the truck onto the axle within an inch of bump and take my radius arm measurement at full stuff.

I figure a piece of 2” trailer hitch stock should be plenty stout.
 
Finally finished polishing my d30 turd. If I could have found a 44, I would’ve swapped but such is life.
Story: broke my last inner long spare. Couldn’t find a stock inner to buy so I bought (the last?) chromoly d30 inner from JBG. It uses a 765 joint, and I couldn’t find a crossover joint to go to my stock outer. Couldn’t find a big joint d30 outer so bought a d44 chromoly outer.
Using a 30 knuckle and hub necessitates spacing the d44 spindle (couldn’t use the d30 one because of lack of clearance) out 0.185”, and spacing the hub out 0.150” from spindle base. Buddy of mine has a new cnc mill and an intern so he made those for me.
I also cut the spindle back to the installed hub nut for axle snap ring install.

Lot of useless effort in the long run, but the ranger is on all 4 again and going wheeling this weekend. I should name it windmill because I sure tilt against it a lot. Singed Don Quixote
 
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Got the stock axle out of the front of the 78 F150.

Gotta get the coil buckets, shock towers, and track bar off the frame hopefully tomorrow.

Then paint the new cool bucket/shock mount combo and bolt them up.
 
Coil bucket/shock tower brackets are on, axle is hanging out under the truck held in place by jack stands/etc with tires on.

I was able to take the old pitman arm off in 10 minutes with PB blaster, heat, and the impact, I have never had one come off so easy. I'm guessing having taken it off a couple of years ago prior helped.

I took this Thursday/Friday off to catch up on some things but primarily work on the truck. I have to trim the stock rear radius arm mounts because they get in the way of the new mounts. Weld the new mounts on, and then I'll lower the truck down onto the axle to the bump stops, measure my radius arm length, and finish building those, and hook them up to the axle.

I'd like to get the track bar mounts done as well but I still have a lot of trimming to do on the axle end so I suspect that's as far as I'll get this week.

Anyway, here are a bunch of pictures from the last few days. Those are 33's on the back.


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Ordered a CAC tube for my '19 6.7 because I was getting P00BD codes, the cold charge tube has a 3" gash down it. From what I have read, all of them do this up to the '20s with about 50k on the clock. Yup, I'm at 52k.
 
BUCKLAND said:
Ordered a CAC tube for my '19 6.7 because I was getting P00BD codes, the cold charge tube has a 3" gash down it. From what I have read, all of them do this up to the '20s with about 50k on the clock. Yup, I'm at 52k.
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Yup, Friend of mines 19' did it last year
 
holdmypocket said:
Coil bucket/shock tower brackets are on, axle is hanging out under the truck held in place by jack stands/etc with tires on.

I was able to take the old pitman arm off in 10 minutes with PB blaster, heat, and the impact, I have never had one come off so easy. I'm guessing having taken it off a couple of years ago prior helped.

I took this Thursday/Friday off to catch up on some things but primarily work on the truck. I have to trim the stock rear radius arm mounts because they get in the way of the new mounts. Weld the new mounts on, and then I'll lower the truck down onto the axle to the bump stops, measure my radius arm length, and finish building those, and hook them up to the axle.

I'd like to get the track bar mounts done as well but I still have a lot of trimming to do on the axle end so I suspect that's as far as I'll get this week.

Anyway, here are a bunch of pictures from the last few days. Those are 33's on the back.


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TO THINK.....I BUILT ALL MY OWN SHIT WHEN I COULD OF JUST BOUGHT IT ALL. FUCKING IDDDDIOTTTT
 
Burns said:
TO THINK.....I BUILT ALL MY OWN SHIT WHEN I COULD Have JUST BOUGHT IT ALL. FUCKING IDDDDIOTTTT
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It certainly speeds things up which is an advantage I need because I have to move out of this house I’m renting in May.

Some of my parts list:
  • WFO radius arms
  • WFO drag link kit to use the stock draglink end on the axle side
  • Barnes or RuffStuff track bar mounts
  • RuffStuff frame outriggers
  • Battle Born Brakes coil bucket/shock mount

What’s funny is the Battle Born Brakes guy just released a bolt-on kit for this swap for all 73-79 F-series trucks (4wd and 2wd) but I’ve been collecting parts for years before starting this project.

I was originally going to bridge the gap on the bump stop to the coil mount axle-side and use my stock coil buckets but that would have been janky. Happy with the Battle Born Brakes part.
 
Burns said:
TO THINK.....I BUILT ALL MY OWN SHIT WHEN I COULD OF JUST BOUGHT IT ALL. FUCKING IDDDDIOTTTT
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Na Bro, this is Irate, you are supposed to build it all.
holdmypocket said:
What’s funny is the Battle Born Brakes guy just released a bolt-on kit for this swap for all 73-79 F-series trucks (4wd and 2wd) but I’ve been collecting parts for years before starting this project.

I was originally going to bridge the gap on the bump stop to the coil mount axle-side and use my stock coil buckets but that would have been janky. Happy with the Battle Born Brakes part.
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They make nice pieces but the kits look cobbled on compared to a custom install. $3k front only. $500 x-mem, pricey. Buying a CNC Plasma is cheaper if you have the time.
 
Today I’ve been working on the rear radius arm mounts. As said before I’m using RuffStuff frame outriggers and WFO arms with their rear mounts.

The tcase crossmember is right where I would want to put the rear arm mounts to make them at the same rearward location as the tcase output. so I had to trim the outriggers at the front so I could butt them up to the rear of the crossmember. Also had to trim the arm mounts.

Locating, cutting, and welding all this pre-made stuff together is a day’s work in itself for me. I can only imagine how much work it would be to fabricate everything yourself.

Hoped to get better welds than this but it’s all melted together with double passes where necessary.

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Tacked them in place so I can lower the truck onto the axle and take radius arm measurements at full stuff.

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I know, the small jackstands aren’t doing anything at all right now.
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start your own fuckin thread for this already :flipoff2:


37s? Will the tires rub the arms with those outriggers keeping the arms more out and more parallel? I had to bend my arms to make room for tires with arms under frame.
 
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