Just remember with the remflex gasket, you can only use it once. It is fairly soft so be careful when installing it. The graphite creates an awesome seal though
I recommend against adding all that extra unsprung weight if your only running 35’s. I have a super d35 with truss and run 33’s With plenty of room for 35’s with 5.5” front coils and soa rear. It’s a nice streetable combo with good off-road capabilities. Ground clearance wise, a stock axle on 33’s has the same if not more clearance than 35’s on an 8.8. 35’s on a 14 bolt will be about comparable to the ground clearance of 31’s on a stock axle. Plus as was mentioned, 35’s will require more trimming on an otherwise clean truck.
Yeah, the list is great but is mostly how to fix or modify components. This would be the source files for people to create their own mud flaps, rubber tailgate pieces, switch trim covers, tailgate handles etc.
@Pete M what do you think about gathering up all these DIY files into one place. I have several vector traced files and templates, we also have the tailgate handle files here somewhere. Would be a nice resource for those looking to restore.
Here is mine for reference. I have vibrations due to not enough spline engagement. Switching to sye and cv shaft but mine is lifted with soa on 4x4 packs
It’s about the same as any other body work or repair. Just try to keep clean cuts and welds. Once you cutoff the rocker, you weld on a back plate by the pinch seam. Then another plate that goes at the rear and ties into the frame. You add your rocker and fill plates and weld it all up onto the new pinch seam reinforcement and frame gusset. Took me a full day to install plus a few hours of shaping and sealing the seams
Not many notice but my rocker sits down about 1/2” lower than the fender and bed panels. This is intentional since they are supposed to act like rock sliders. I like the side impact protection they add
I used the Spadano enterprises rockers and worked them into the body lines. They look like factory but are 1/4” steel. Only difference is that they fit all the way to the bottom of the pinch seam
I’d also recommend that you add a nice flexible exhaust hanger at the down pipe to keep the weight off the header. Those atp/summit/eBay/Amazon headers are pretty notorious for cracking at the welds. Mine blew out in about 2500 miles. Perhaps they have improved the design though???
Never seen that bumper but it looks more like a body kit (inspired by a boat I would say). The flares look like they may be a set of Napier’s but just painted to match the body.
I restored my oem bucket seats and I much prefer them to bench seats over long distances or if off-road since they have much better containment. I would still swap them for some suspension seats in a heartbeat. Had corbeau suspension seats in my YJ and have also tried out the Jettrim HC seats. Those jettrims are hands down the best seats I’ve ever tried.
Actually guys, I got really sick for a while. Still need a set but I can’t even receive them until we are out of quarantine here which is tentatively set for mid April.