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Project - "Rock Trac" Restoration

Well the original plan when I bought John's truck was to go ahead and disassemble it and use it for parts for mine. I decided instead to go ahead and keep it together and replace what needed to be replaced, and mine can still stay the road queen that it is hah.

So I thought I'd post up some pictures so far....

How the Trac stood when we arrived to pick her up.

Another...

Getting her loaded up on my Tahoe...


Randall trying to figure out where we can stuff more of the parts that go with her...


Kris double checking Randall's tie down work to make sure it doesn't fly off while we're driving back home :)


Late night entry into the garage after a very long haul to Houston and back home - Large thanks for Kris and Randall for all their help

Current status in my garage

As you can see, a little bit of rust, but we'll go ahead and go over that with some good old rustolem


Header panel on the drivers side cracked and full of holes - hard to keep the headlamp/turn signal and fender back on it

New header panel next


New header panel in my make shift paint booth haha


Needed a new fan clutch

Had to cut the fan shroud off to get the fan clutch off - as John taught me the correct way to rebuild our plastic parts on our Trac's haha - Zip Ties!



More to come as I get further into it. Plan is for this Sunday, Kris will be coming over to assist me in taking the superlift off the front and dropping it back down to original suspension up front as the superlift knuckles are ruined.
 



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Looks great man, finally some progress. John would be ecstatic. Still ordering parts for my SAS.
 



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Looks great man, finally some progress. John would be ecstatic.
Yes, he sure would.

Good stuff. Are you going to add a cross member to the RA brackets?
 












Looks like a good start.
 






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No, certainly not. Few threads get my attention as much as this one.
 






Awesome work, I like the idea of recessing the steering box. What box is that for?
 
























Yeah. We had to notch it a bit to get the Toyota steering box to line up without binding too much.

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What is the last leg of work?
 



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We are going to swap out the rear axle for an 8.8 with a Powertrax No-Slip, 4.88's and Dutchman alloy shafts with the matching 5 on 5.5 bolt pattern. Also swapping out the transfer case with an F-150 electric shift 4406, and then the driveshafts. We also need to get his old MTR's swapped onto some 5 on 5.5 Rockcrawler wheels.
 






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