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The Lone Ranger – Front SAS – Plating the Crumple Zone
This is one area I wanted to document as best that I could as there seems to be varying opinions on how much to plate over this area. I’m of the belief that the more the merrier since you’re turning an area that wasn’t designed to be a load bearing area into a load bearing area. That said, even with the crumple zone as it is, that area will take a fair amount of abuse before it crumples. What is…
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The Lone Ranger – Front SAS – Test Fitting the 44 (figuring shackle length):
After doing some quick plating of the front crumple zone (I’ll do a separate post on that when I get done plating, as well as final mounting locations for the front leaf mounts) I did a few test fits of the 44. What can I say, I’m kind excited at this point so I’m jumping ahead a bit Since I didn’t really have any reference points to measure off of to being with (cab is loose from the body, and…
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ORT -Belated NYD run at Washita 1-2-10
My usual group of wheeling buddies makes does an annual trip down to Washita on New Years Day. But in 2010 we wound up doing it a day later due to scheduling conflicts. This was also one of the few trips that my friends bronco made the trip down to the park. Slideshow of all the photos: (Click Me) Random photos from the day:
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The Lone Ranger – Front SAS – Leaf Mounts
Now that I’ve got this fancy used axle and used springs, I need to mount them to the truck. For the front-rear leaf mounts (mounts close to the firewall) I came up with a boxed in leaf mount. This mount will be somewhat outboard of the frame in this area. The mounts were made out of scrap ¼” material that I scrounged from the work dumpster. Parts: Pre weld: Welded (its been a little while since I’ve played welder, be…
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ORT – Washita Mx 3-14-09
Another look back on a trip to my favorite park in the Old ’87 XJ. So many XJ’s floating around with the usual Cherokee Group, with a smattering of short wheel base folks as well. I had a photographer riding along for this trip, so a decent amount of photos were taken. But sadly, they were all pretty small, so you might have to squint a bit to see everything. Enjoy! Link to all the photos can be found here…