Recent content by Dusty

Yeah those welds look like mine (shitty). Especially next to the factory welds from RK and NVM. But even so, if it was me, I'd just run it as-is. My guess is they're structurally OK even though cosmetically shit. Put a thick coat of primer and rattle-can, then go have fun. Save that shop time...

I just wanted to say wow, Pirate4X4, there's a blast from the past. I don't even recognize that place any more LOL. Checked to see if my old login still works. Yep, still there with a January 2003 join date. 21 years on that forum LOL.

At any rate it doesn't look like the portal or upgright failed, as they simply re-attached it to the UCA and (I'm assuming because they don't actually show it) drove out of there. I'm just pointing out that this doesn't look like a case of 74Weld "having issues and not being public or up-front...

I watched it. Looks like installer error. Upper ball joint nut fell off. They got it back together and drove out.

Most of my mechanic friends and independent shops I know are great with the antique systems on Early Broncos, but I don't really know of anyone in my circle of friends and shops yet, who are doing their own work on the new 6G's. In other words, I know some great mechanics and shops, but these...

We continued the gear and axle work in episode 28 of Horsin' Around, with swapping the front M190 Front Drive Unit for the M210 we had already refreshed and re-geared in a previous episode.

Episode 27 of Horsin' Around had us back in the shop to continue the gear and axle upgrades for Chanel, with this episode focusing on swapping the M220 rear axle.

We were back in Joshua Tree NP for episode 26 of Horsin' Around, this time to explore Pinkham Canyon.

Excellent information, thanks for writing it out! I feel vindicated for how hard it was for me just to reinstall the stock rack in mine after swapping in the M210. That's interesting to hear that it's more of a struggle with the 2.3L than the 2.7.

I feel attacked!

BTW have you seen the size of the pinion gear in these things, in person? They're already teeny-tiny. The one for my 5.13's already has me concerned, and of course the lower gear pinions are even smaller.

If I ever go to 40's I'll probably wish I had done 5.38's. But with 37's there's no place I won't be able to go, that I would have been able to with 5.38's. And for what it's worth those of us with the 7-speed technically take off in 2nd gear already :). As it is now, I use all of 6th gear on...

He does, but he's a friend of mine and he was more interested in doing a quick, "while I wait" turnaround on it for me if I already had ProCal and didn't need him to do the programming too. I'm sure he would do that for me too but I'm in no hurry so if the folks working on it in the other thread...

Yeah I have a HOSS3 rack sitting in a box in my shop, I'm not looking forward to diving back in for the swap LOL. I'm probably going to take it down to Quinn to turn it into a Stage 3 before I do though. Sort of waiting for folks to sort out the ProCal issues around it first.

Had they offered a rear locker as a stand-alone option on the Base, I might have sprung for it. And perhaps left it that way LOL.