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finally got to drive it under its own power last night. Still needs front shocks so that top on list and rear lights wired up. But the sum b*@$£ runs good, shifts and stops kinda lol speedo works to. adding that leaf in rear seemed to level it out some already putting it to work. snatch blocked the blazer off the trailer safely. well its been a long journey and felt real good to drive it around. like i said got a few things to finish up so its a driver and than it cage time.

almost ready to rock and roll. shocks mounted and pinion angle set and perches welded. just need to get some bolts for bottom of shock and put brakes back on. maybe drive it out of garage tom

almost ready to rock and roll. shocks mounted and pinion angle set and perches welded. just need to get some bolts for bottom of shock and put brakes back on. maybe drive it out of garage tom

I started on the nine again. got it all grinded down and rear for a final burn in for the perches and shock mounts. Going to move to calipers from 12 o clock to around 9 or 10 so i can bleed brakes properly. Hooked up the OBD2 scanner to see if worked and sure does. Had a bunch of codes from the instal and stuff but no major ones. did notice from the live data that my TPS % is way high so going to adjust that. start of the nine gosh my garage is a mess can't wait to have it back to normal lol The other money pits first snow in prolly 20 years. Been to cold to move into garage to work on it. Tonight i plan on burning the perches in and prolly shocks . then I will be able to back it out of garage under its own POWER! pretty exciting haha

ILLINOIS

I'm in tuscola pretty close to decatur

Almost drove it last night. got brakes semi bled and started backing out and the damn tap welds broke on leaf perches. they needed to be moved anyway so saved me some work. got it pointed at t case now and ready to lay some fat beads on it.

its kinda a pain in the @$$. lol mine isnt perfect but can move it around the yard and load it on trailer till i have a nice one made

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ill be sure to post when i get to that swap hah. and I only did a double pass and added the plug holes. should hold haha

i found a guy selling some 16" king 2.0 air shocks near me cheap. might run over there tonight and check them out. also has a dana 60 rear, stak t case and some treps i want haha

hoping to be driving it soon. Going on a small trip to texas for the holiday so tonight will be the last of progress this year haha. I did start beefing up the track bar mount some still need to weld on the wedge area. Guess i need to heat it up to help it burn in. so gotta borrow a torch. but here is some pics still need welded at bottom and maybe something to extend it to help with side load stress. pretty happy with the way it turned out. got pretty decent at making paper templates lol

Nice. its been a fun build can't wait to take it places. and Ya been looking for a ls myself. almost picked up a 6.0 few weeks ago. got some bad @$$ steering parts instead hah. Novak makes the swap real nice. I have a buddy building a turbo 5.3 2wd 2 door right now. so hoping hes done before I'm ready so i can steal some of the swap ideas haha.

not alot done last night. got the frame side track bar bracket welded and link painted.

Well i got my steering and track bar links all welded up. now just need to drill the pit man arm and weld up the brackets for track bar. making some tiny progress been to damn cold in illinois damn i need to push jeep out and clean lol

last night i went out to the garage and messed with track bar more. Got the DOM track bar tacked in and made some flex and stop to stop clearance checks. all looks good so far. this is ride height .8 degree off between track bar and drag link at equal lengths compressed clears nicely track bar bracket needs a lil love but will work cause I'm not using bottom hole passenger drop turned to stop small issue at coil perch but grinder will fix that drooped flex all good. no more pit man arm contact overall i think this is going to work. going to start welded all my brackets and make bump stops and coil mounts and shock mounts. pretty happy with this set up.

Well i think i got everything in there. Equal length and same angle track bar and drag link. need to do some final testing and then weld the crap out of it. If coils bind or hit I'm going Air shocks, here is some pics looks so good u can't even tell it has a track bar. now if only it all works together lol

messed with track bar some and maybe getting somewhere. The more and more i think about this the more i want to go ORI or air shocks. this rig will be driving on street but not often. The room id have with air shocks would fix my track bar length issues this is with 36s i modified that outside track bar mount to it goes under unibody hits there but can't adjust bump stop so it doesnt go this high possibly this is were track bar should land if i kept the same 36" drag link length flipped the tie rod to check clearance on everything and all seems good this way i have not moved the steering box yet but will if i keep having issues with clearance. This is my first time doing any of this so pretty much open for any ideas to assist me. I want it all to be done right the first time and want to keep it as reliable as possible

ive been trying to get as much length out of the pan hard to equal the drag link but just not happening. I also having issues with the tie rod hitting heim at the pit man arm at full compression. I adjusted the pinion angle a lil to make it point at the transfer case and when i did that it mess with the drag and tie rod also. Guess its back to the drawling board on this. The Po of the axles made the lower mounts and think it pushed the axle out a few inches also. I can't go out on the frame side using that bracket i have cause itll hit spring and will push it out over drag link, and can't really move the passenger side bracket out because of the spring. trying to get this all perfect is a pain in the @$$ with Hi steer. here some pics of what i did last night. shoes and springs back out for more trial and error don't mind this crappy bracket just tried to have something hold rod end But u can see here any bracket in front of spring will hit my tie rod. I might try flippng tie rod to bottom of that histeer arm or putting heim at top of pitman arm Idk what I'm going to try tonight. maybe flipping those parts or putting under frame bracket on and see where that goes. as of now the track bar is 4" shorter than the drag link. I plan on doing hydro assist so that might not be a problem but its still a band aid. Might try making a bracket that will squeeze the track bar in front of the spring on passenger side and go from there. thanks

thanks man! its been kicking my @$$ lately tho lol

Got a lil done last night. got the brakes up front all done and lines on. got some hard steering tubes in there now and now on to track bar. ride height angles/ this is my attempt to move coil perch out a couple inches and stiffing up that inner c on the 44. ill box this all in once i know if i like it or not.

thanks and ya decatur is just down the road from me. haha

last night i got to messing with trying to get it back on its feet. Got the hubs all assembled and started on brakes. the damn high steer arm hits on my bonjo bolt on caliper so need to mill some off of it but not alot. This was a mezzy job. so used to sealed unit bearing front ends lol. The the bearings packed, the inner spindle nut tq to 50 and back off 1/4 turn, lock ring and outer nut tq to 150. seen a bunch of dif method and tq specs on this so hope that is right lock outs on Then i started to assembly brakes which was a puzzle cause i had no idea how any of this came off so good ole youtube saved me. But was trying to get caliper lined up and wasnt going to i looked at the back side and my damn ballistic histeer arm was hitting. Looking around other dana 44 had the binjo bolt at top mine tucks in by the hi steer. idk if i can swap calipers or just rock this and cut off a lil on arm. don't think itll hurt anything.