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The Lone Ranger – Front SAS – Shackles and Cross Member
The front shackles wound up being a bit overkill. I used 1.5 x ½” thick material to make them. The holes are at 5” center to center, and I milled out 1/8” per side to get the correct offset (Waggy bushing measures 2.75” and the YJ bushing measures right at 3”). There was some .120” 1 ¼” Tube laying around that I made the middle spacer out of. Parts: Welded up: With the shackles done, I slapped a piece of…
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The Lone Ranger – Front SAS – Final Leaf mount Burn In:
Well I passed two milestones tonight, the leaf mounts are fully burned on. And I somehow managed to lay some decent beads upside down Locating the mounts was a bit of a pain since I’d moved (or removed) just about every item that I could use as a good reference point on the frame. So it took a few tries to get it right. So if anyone is looking for numbers in the future, here’s what I wound up with……
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ORT – Flat Nasty Off Road 10-16-10
Well this was an expensive trip….. Had one tire blow out on the way down. Couldn’t find a 9.5 R16.5 Trailer tire to fix the one on the right, so I picked up a 16” rim and tire combo to finish the trip down to FN. On the way back up, I killed the sidewall of the new tire (on the left). So yeah, that sucked! We did mange to travel just a bit at the park: With some of…
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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…