Back on her feet (lots of pics)!

[JBFab]

Since im new here figured id bring you all up to speed on my beast. Its bin on jackstands for about two months while i redid the whole front suspension. Heres what i did- plated rancho radius arms, solo cut and turned beams that i braced and plated,modded duff buckets with custom hoops, deaver coils, foa 14" res shocks, d50 stub shaft, 4.09 hd44 pumpkin, new ball joints, new u joints, new tie rods, tie rod flip.

Next is the rear suspension- procomp 6" leafs without the overload leaf, trussed and locked 8.8 with yukon cromo axles, front rotor disk brake coversion to replace the explorer setup i have now and my own extended shackles 7.25.

Then its cage time have a bronco bob's basic cage kit and 120' of tubing.

Thats all for now, injoy!

 

[Blue Goose]

Geeze-o-pete!!! How often do you have to replace the batteries in that dog???

 

[BuzzGun79]

Impressive JB !! Well done!!

 

[DNFXDLI]

Looks good!

 

[JBFab]

Geeze-o-pete!!! How often do you have to replace the batteries in that dog???

I saved so much on batterys by getting a tender!

 

[DNFXDLI]

I saved so much on batterys by getting a tender!

Best $20-$25 a guy can spend!

 

[Blue Goose]

BTW, your truck looks good!

 

[blacksnapon]

Very nice work!

 

[Beach66Bum]

serious suspension!!

 

[smokey]

You do great work. Looks good.

 

[460Trucker]

Nice work! Looks great!

 

[slmann]

looks good, thanks for sharing the pics.

 

[JBFab]

The suspension is cycling 17" from bump to strap. Was hoping for alittle more but the center slip joint limits travel. Without it i could easily get 20"!

The other day i started on the 1" body lift simply for more clearance. Broke five out of ten mounts so now im waiting on a new set. Should have seen that coming.

 

[Alvin in AZ]

Cool JB!

Did you modify these TTBs or trade your old ones in for 'em or just
buy 'em outright?

Didn't see this before, must be in the Fabrication section of FSB?

And what kind of shock is that, JB?

Me and my wife cut a couple shocks apart today, one was a Bilstein.

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I'd like to square-box-in (2wd) my left one.

I hadn't done my homework on it yet tho. :/

First I need to -spark-test- the steel the TTBs are made of and then
spark-test the parts truck's frame and compare 'em. xD

Anybody already-done-knowed what I'm going to learn from the spark
tests?

Alvin in AZ
'91 U150 2wd ZF SuperCab bench-seat 265/75-16E's on 16x8" wheels

 

[Skandocious]

Wow thats friggin awesome!

 

[JBFab]

I sent a set of junkyard beams out to solo for the cut and turn. All they do is cut out the lower ball joint area and move it out alittle. The brace and plating was all done by me. The shocks are 2.5x14" foa's that everyone said i couldnt fit. Well guess what i made them fit. I did put some photos in the fab section but most went into my build thread. Warning lots of photos and its about 5pages long- http://www.fullsizebronco.com/forum/showthread.php?t=211825-

As far as your 2wd i belive giant has some awesome weld it yourself kits that utilize the d44 outer knuckle. Think they get about 20" of travel if you go 2" wider then stock.

 

[80f150]

Awesome work.