" I've been framed!"

So now that the rear end is pretty much sized up ( or down as it were...lol), I have been working on the rear portion of the frame for it to snuggle up to, and rather than go into all I had to do to get everything measured up in the car for it...I'll just say that I've already done all that :).

I got the basic frame here ready for the shock and ladder bar setup, the shocks having just been modified and built and installed (minus the lower brackets to the differential). The ultimate goal of mine in the beginning was to build as much myself as possible, so, even though its not as professional as possible, I think I still did fairly well. the frame at this point is just "tacked" together. Taran will be taking it to work and fully welding the unit solid. The shocks turned out great. I used a pair of simple bolt on coil over springs (rated 1250 load pounds per set) to mount to the modified ( shortened shocks). The ladder bars will be here in a couple days, so for now I will just leave this all set up here till I can put it all together as a complete unit which I will record and publish as well. So we'll see ya in a few days. :) chao!!

"Rear Ended!"

Ok, well...it's been quite sometime since the last post...Sorry, just been busy with life & stuff.

Anywho, I finally got the differential work done for the most part (minus the actual Strange Engineering Axles). Here you can see the sorry state of the original rearend pulled from a 1978 Ford F150 2wd. Overall a decent example of a good strong 9" punkin :)

We took the 54" behometh, cleaned it up by removing all of the shock mount and leaf spring mounting pads, removed the drop out gearing, removed the planetary system for minimum slip, installed a Strange 31 spline spool so both rear paws can dig, added new bearings, races etc. had the tubes shortened by Dean Averett of DA Racing in Taylorsville, Utah. (Awesome job Dean...Thx buddy!

To get the spool to install onto the ring gear I had to modify new 7/16 x 20 bolts. I shortened them to accomidate the thinner flange of the new spool. The end result worked great. I got it together, set the backlash to .012", checked the gear pattern using a little persian blue gear paint and put the rest of it together. I think so far...it looks pretty good.