Taxxman's SAS

[taxx]

lol. I have a rule in my garage, nothing gets worked on without beer. Only exception is coffee time early morning on weekends. My pump is a ***** to get to. Will hav eto pull the radiator shroud and I think it might be easier to do that end first on my engine... we will see might just get it started then start the other end and tighten them down. the instructions say like 10 - 20 ft-lbs so not too tight I guess. Just tight enough to get some pressure on the o-ring.... hehe after the first austin powers I can't say o-ring without giggling like a school girl.

Thanks for all your help, can't wait to get home and get this steering hooked up and start the truck. it hasn't been started in 1.5 months! Do you bleed powersteering or does the air work itself out?

 

[BUCHVILLEMAN]

bleed it by turning key on engine off (steering linkage unhooked - pitman arm or draglink) and turn steering wheel full lock to lock 20-30 times have someone watch for air bubbles until they stop coming up. its better to do than not to just to make sure that you dont get in and go and air releases so much that your fluid level gets too low. i had air come out but not enough to depleat the pump of fluid at all.

 

[taxx]

that makes perfect sense!

 

[taxx]

Got steering mounted and hooked up! Seems to be running great. For the shaft I cut the head off the Ranger shaft, leaving some of the shaft of it on there. Then cut the head off the X shaft and slid the ranger one into the X tube and welded it!

 

[taxx]

Then the hoses where a different story! I had to pull the pump to replace the high side hose!

 

[taxx]

Finally the box is mounted and hooked up!

 

[taxx]

again..

 

[taxx]

seems to be fully functional! ran some fluid through it. yes I know one bolt is missing from the top of the box. I will get that before it goes on the road.

 

[jasonb]

gettin closer... looks like its coming along pretty good dave!

 

[BUCHVILLEMAN]

tight installation! looks good. i like the counter weight you have balancing the vise.

of course you know what they say about drinking coors light?

Its the closest thing to having sex in the bottom of a canoe ....

 

[BUCHVILLEMAN]

... f--king-near water!

oh yeah i cant believe i stretched so hard to recall that one.



reinstalling your shft will be pretty tight since you welded it. you may have to grind off that little nub that is on the side of the shaft coming out of the fire wall so that you can slide it on.

 

[taxx]

Ya Ya Ya. Its not the greatest but it s tolerable and it was cold....

 

[BUCHVILLEMAN]

thats the only kind - cold

i cant say much i drink bush. cheap and tolerable. ive drank quite a few coors lights in my day as well. what my dad and grandpa drinks.

what kind of shock set up you going with? duals? how you going to mount them?

 

[taxx]

Duals. I have F-250 shock mounts for behind the coil then the lower is mounted to the radius arm and for the front of the coild I have a second shock kit that is just some fancy peices of metal one for the frame and one for the axle. I'll have them on this weekend.

Fix those damn radius arm brackets and its all easy stuff from then on out.... or atleast little stuff. My hands are all cut up and sore from those firggin steering hoses!

 

[BUCHVILLEMAN]

My hands are all cut up and sore from those firggin steering hoses!

makes you feel alice doesnt it?


i wanna see pics of that shock set up. im going duals soon and have to decide exactly what i want to do. it is jsut a little bouncy with the single rs5000 that i have on there now.

 

[taxx]

Alice? I'm gonna have to think on what that means....

I'll get you some shock mount pics as soon as they are mounted!

 

[BUCHVILLEMAN]

DOH!!!

thats .. "makes you feel ALIVE...?"


but if it makes you feel alice i guess thats okay too.

 

[taxx]

Ahh that makes so much more sense. Here I am wondering what it is like tumbling down a rabbit hole.

 

[cdsl227]

I felt alice when I got my front bumper finished...

Think you're gonna see any spring rub on the buckets from this setup?

I'm going for the Leaf in about 2-3 weeks, gotta get a transfer case from Cory- then I'm gone! I ordered a gallon of POR-15, the cleaner and the Glossy Top coat, to coat everything with after I'm done.

 

[taxx]

How does Alice feel?

Nope no rubbing except maybe at full flex. I bouce it up and down now and it is pretty quiet.

I gotta figure out something to do under there. I just painted everything last fall and as you can see it is rust color again. Guess I will just live with it.

Really coil mount is not that hard. I think it takes a little more time possitioning the axle, but it is still easy, just time consuming, sometimesy ou gotta step back and look at the whole picture again.