1969 Ford Cummins Crew Conversion....

[HRDROKN]

Getting the Superduty springs into place....

 

[HRDROKN]

Ultimately I want to go with coilovers on this truck, but the city has been a little upset with the project on my driveway. So leafs it is for now!

:bang

 

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These springs have turned out to have a pretty stiff feel.... we will have to see how they ride though. I'm thinking that I'll either end up with some National Springs or the coilovers!

:Cheer:

 

[HRDROKN]

Continuing on with the work... springs are mounted. At this point in the build I was still searching for a high pinion D60 for the front. Those damn things are hard to come by.....

 

[HRDROKN]

And finally scored on a D60 axle.... I'm going through the whole thing.

 

[SmokeShow]

holy fabrication skills batman!!! very nice work. you're gonna have a kick ass truck when you're done!! Congrats.

 

[DrSpeed]

Nice to see you made it over! Great job, and can't wait to see it done!

 

[Joush]

Nice build. I spent a couple hours going through your build thread on TDG and I can't wait to see this beast completed.

 

[HRDROKN]

Thanks for the compliments and support!

:Cheer:

 

[HRDROKN]

Lots of time spent on waiting for rebuild parts....

 

[HRDROKN]

So while I was waiting for front end parts...

I sold my old axles as a pair, so time to get that old D60 out of the truck and prepair the D80 to go under. I will be changing the rear springs to 3" wide later down the road... or not? Hmmmmm. Can we say COILOVERS?

Dana 60....

 

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The D80 ready to go in....

 

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Finishing up with the D80 rear with a disc brake conversion...

 

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Rebuild parts are finally coming in so I'm back to work on the front axle.... Got the front axle all u-bolted in there... but the u-bolts were too short. Oooops!

:bang

 

[HRDROKN]

New inner seals installed and double checking the lash... thinking back, I don't know why I didn't just put a LSD in it while I had it all apart? I guess I'll just have to do that job over again later....

New spindles and complet king pin rebuild completed....

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[HRDROKN]

Hubs and rotors.....

 

[HRDROKN]

Decided to remove the pre-load spring set up on the king pins.... the new set up uses the set screw to actually pre-load the king pin. Advantage here is that it will keep the front end tighter and with the 38's avoid any front end wobble due to balance or other....

:rockwoot:

 

[HRDROKN]

Going with a x-over steering set-up..... those are 1ton GM tie rods.

:Cheer:

 

[injected79]

Very nice work, good luck on the project

 

[HRDROKN]

Very nice work, good luck on the project

Thanks!

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