Thanks Guys, and I did take it as a compliment.
My reply was a tongue in cheek post.
I still have about a zillion Legos boxed up somewhere Ha Ha.
Ouch!
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I needed to check out to see if I had any clearance issues that don't show up while flexing with a floor jack in garage
I needed to bounce it.
I knew it was close around the diff cover and track bar mount on pass. side of axle. I needed to stuff and droop the pass. side to find out. So I put the right hand side on an angle
You can see how far it droops as I start to go side ways on the hill and then it actually hits the rear fender when it briefly stuffs when I came off.
Now it I had of left the pin in the rear radius arm it would have never had hit or flexed that far.
But that's no fun.
Actually it's just too flexy to drive on the street without the pin.
So then it was back to the garage to check to get under and check for flesh wounds.
I heard it hit, but nothing that stopped the body from coming down, so I knew it could not be major.
OK, a little rear fender work is in order, nothing big here. Kinda suspected this.
Now this will take a little more work. This is where the extreme edge of the diff cover hit. It's one of those IRS ones that are aluminum.
It was more of a rub then anything. But there is room to modify that gas tank plate if need be.
Here you can see the rub mark on the webbing. I'll cut off some of the webbing first and then modify the plate if need be.
I think "need be" will be done also. I feel the urge to cut out the radius part of the tank plate and make it on a sharp 45 deg angle.
The gas tank is about 1" behind it.
And here is the diff cover before I start modifing it.
And lastly the little shiny mark where the rear axle track bar mount came up and hit part of the crossover frame. You can see that I previously cut it out where the L cut is made, but did not do enough.
I really do not have to cut the L-cut any more. The part of the track bar mount that hit can be cut off. I had to move the track bar on axle due to shoving axle back, so the part of the old track bar will just be cut off.
Now to start removing Lego's, I mean metal.
And Aric, your right about the retirement.
Just in case something goes south while testing, I have couple friends who have trailers that I can call just in case.
But I really have not wheeled this hard anyway, no desire to bang off rocks and trees.
But there will be a time that this will most likley be made into a %100 trail rig. But that will cost some big $$.