BMXking's Axle Swap 1st gen. Coils/Radius Arms!!!

[bmxking5]

asdfasdfasdga

 

[bmxking5]

last 2

 

[lycan91]

looks great!

 

[ld50]

Those look hefty man, nice work!

 

[FROADER]

Were those done at the shop?

 

[bmxking5]

Thanks. Yeah, I built all of this stuff myself at the shop.

 

[Bruces expo]

hey bryan what you doing with all of your interior ???

 

[bmxking5]

Keeping everything minus carpet. I'm pulling off all the side panels tomorrow and running all the wires for my amps behind them. I'm gonna leave them off so it can line-xed under them and then I'll put everything back in except carpet.

Also, Reid Racing knuckles and BTF arms should be here sometime next week!

 

[Bruces expo]

kool kool , do you know anybody with a set of 33"s for sale ??

 

[bmxking5]

No, not that I can think of.

 

[mcpherson]

Nice work, your custom brackets look awesome!

 

[bmxking5]

Finally got around to doing the new steering setup. Pics coming soon...1.5" DOM .25" wall steering links, heims from BTF, drop pitman arm, Reid racing pass. side knuckle and BTF arms drilled for 4th hi steer stud, HD Balljoints with some camber adjuster sleeves so I can finally align it all properly, 1.5"x.25" DOM track bar w/ poly bushing on bottom and heim on top from Ballistic Fab. I relocated the lower steering link to the top of the knuckle stock TRE mount. My drag link angle is almost completely straight now, so I had to rebuild the track bar brackets. I built a much higher lower track bar mount and lowered the track bar a couple of holes on the upper mount, and then reinforced/finished up the upper track bar.

In the middle of changing the lower intake gasket right now, and in the process of building a new battery tray while I'm at it. I'm also probably going to cut off the bottom of the engine crossmember and plate the bottom of it to get some more up travel clearance.

 

[ld50]

I was starting to think you'd given up.

 

[Bruces expo]

Bryan , whats up dude !!!

 

[bmxking5]

Almost got the motor back together but forgot to get some new fuel injector o-rings, so I'm getting those tomorrow and throwing it all back together. But I did get it ready for the front bumper I'm gonna build. It's going to look similar to froader's bumper but I'm going to finish off the sides/under headlights with some 1/4" plate. The bottom of the grille and front trim will be cut out to fit the winch very close to the vehicle. The new bumper shouldn't end up sticking out anymore from the vehicle than the stocker so I should have a pretty damn good approach angle. Hopefully I can get started on it tomorrow after I finish the motor.

 

[bmxking5]

2 more pics

 

[Burns]

Looking very good as always. Glad to see some with a nasty engine bay like mine. I cant keep it clean. Well i dont even try.

I loved pulling my carpet out. I have the cargo area sprayed with liner and need to finsh the rest. Its nice just to get in and not worry about the carpet getting dirty

 

[wheelin42001]

Looks good haven't looked at your post in a while!! Question for ya, I'm having to eventually redo my entire trac bar set up.. did you have to hack the engine crossmember? Think you have more suspension lift than my ranger does...

 

[bmxking5]

I cut off about 1 inch on the driver front corner of the engine crossmember with my original setup but didn't have to trim any more with the current brackets/track bar/angle.

 

[bmxking5]

I cut off about 1 inch on the driver front corner of the engine crossmember with my original setup but didn't have to trim any more with the current brackets/track bar/angle.

Actually, the other day I had it flexed out on our rock garden and saw the trac bar contacting the engine crossmember so I ended up chopping about 2.5" all the way across from the front lip of the crossmember. Might strengthen it up later on.

A little update....as you can see the SSRs are about shot. I ended up getting a new set of Nitto Mud Grapplers. 37x13.50r17.

About done with the front bumper minus winch and d-rings. Turned out pretty good. Used a poison spyder stinger from a TJ and added onto it.

Lastly, the rear currently has a fozzy locker which has been working awesome in the 9". I'd heard of some possible issues (such as cracking the carrier, which I did twice with the mini spools) but have yet to have any problems because of the fact that it has 4 spiders compared to 2 (less stress on each gear to cause problems) and 2 cross shafts compared to 1. I'm a little skeptical about doing this to the front though since it has 2 spiders and a more open carrier so if I did have any breakage issues, they'd mess up my new yukon gears. I'm probably going to just lincoln lock the front for now since it would probably be stronger. Hopefully I can do that this weekend.

I'll try to post pics soon of the changes, and post up some pics of the exploder on top of some hondas that we had left over from a car crush at our annual car show