Pete M

look into the Dynatrac axles. They make some darn good Dana 60s. :thumbsup:

plan on swapping the entire wire harness (depending on the year of the truck and year of the donor).

So does dead bird + time. :ack:

Looks like a poor mans drain. :hmm:

coils

also it would appear I've finally crossed over the 10,000 post mark. :shake:

found a dead robin in the 90 today when I fired up the fleet to move them across the parking lot. :shake: Sometime this week I'll be bringing it over to the driveway for some work. and no, I didn't snap any photos of the bird carcass.

make sure you cap all the vacuum line, or better yet, remove them and cap the source. Otherwise you'll have a vacuum leak. :thumbsup:

this one? viewtopic.php?f=9&t=18415

you might want to finalize your tire choice. A dana 44 will work fine with 35s, a 60 is pretty much required for 42s. have you looked at aftermarket axles yet?

Eh. it's just the Flintstones option. My 90 came with that.

How big are your tires going to be? What type of wheeling will you do? what's your budget look like?

I don't have money or property so there's a natural limit to the number of MJs I can own at any one time. :(

these issues needed to be overcome: this is max flex with the awful poly bushings More photos than you can shake a stick at here: www.picturetrail.com/petermontie

flex can be atrocious if you use anything but beat up rubber C-bushings. the coil buckets don't line up quite right with the coils the track bar hole in the axle likes to wallow out the control arms hang down pretty bad On the plus side there's no need for a swaybar. :D

I was sick of smelling burning oil. :D

I like it. but it's not for everyone.

sometimes 1/4" may seem more prudent than overkill...

It means that you should probably stick to the 3/4 ton truck axles. :D

79 F-150 will have the cast-in radius arm monts. really only good if you're going with the radius arm suspension too.

don't touch that 2.8. Buy a 3.4 and rebuild it. The castings and inner oil passages are vastly superior in the newer blocks. :thumbsup:

good choice on getting the folding type of crane. :thumbsup:

what's this "emission test" you guys keep talking about? :D