The 4.0 Swap was chump change compared to this - Look inside...

[janderson4010]

You probably tried this but did you shut it off, put tranny in nutral and try shifting out of low with no load whats so ever on the shifting forks?
Sounds to me that there was some thrust on the gears.

BTW truck really looks great.

yeah something is going on, I rolled it back and forth and stuff.

yeah I think it looks pretty awesome, its really low, and thats how I like it, im sitting at the most 2.5" of lift, and with the fenders cut out it looks bad ass on the 35's. Getting closer all the time

 

[broncobra22]

Shafted

Jon's truck is really coming along, but don't ride him about the doubler as he Pm'ed me with the problem ...and he didn't say it, but it's me. The shaft I made for him is not aligning properly and therefore Rookie is right...binding up. He was super nice about it but I want the record straight about the warped shaft...My Fault not Jon's!
I went into more detail with him but think the hollow shaft warped at the back side of the gear, as it is thin at that specific point & obviously at least in my own mind I did not allow the piece to cool sufficiently before remounting in the lathe and checking with the dial indicator. Prior to and after welding it checked to 1/1000th. but I believe furthur cooling caused the hollow shaft to warp. Could have double checked my readings and should have after complete cool down, but didn't.
Straightning carefully in a press, with trial fits to the case might be an option at this point, starting the two piece shaft again from scratch or machining a 1 piece shaft also come to mind. Each solution has it's draw backs.
Then there is the obvious but expensive Atlas solution.

 

[rookieshooter]

Jon's truck is really coming along, but don't ride him about the doubler as he Pm'ed me with the problem ...and he didn't say it, but it's me. The shaft I made for him is not aligning properly and therefore Rookie is right...binding up. He was super nice about it but I want the record straight about the warped shaft...My Fault not Jon's!
I went into more detail with him but think the hollow shaft warped at the back side of the gear, as it is thin at that specific point & obviously at least in my own mind I did not allow the piece to cool sufficiently before remounting in the lathe and checking with the dial indicator. Prior to and after welding it checked to 1/1000th. but I believe furthur cooling caused the hollow shaft to warp. Could have double checked my readings and should have after complete cool down, but didn't.
Straightning carefully in a press, with trial fits to the case might be an option at this point, starting the two piece shaft again from scratch or machining a 1 piece shaft also come to mind. Each solution has it's draw backs.
Then there is the obvious but expensive Atlas solution.

Spoken like the true gentleman you are.

 

[janderson4010]

Jon's truck is really coming along, but don't ride him about the doubler as he Pm'ed me with the problem ...and he didn't say it, but it's me. The shaft I made for him is not aligning properly and therefore Rookie is right...binding up. He was super nice about it but I want the record straight about the warped shaft...My Fault not Jon's!
I went into more detail with him but think the hollow shaft warped at the back side of the gear, as it is thin at that specific point & obviously at least in my own mind I did not allow the piece to cool sufficiently before remounting in the lathe and checking with the dial indicator. Prior to and after welding it checked to 1/1000th. but I believe furthur cooling caused the hollow shaft to warp. Could have double checked my readings and should have after complete cool down, but didn't.
Straightning carefully in a press, with trial fits to the case might be an option at this point, starting the two piece shaft again from scratch or machining a 1 piece shaft also come to mind. Each solution has it's draw backs.

Then there is the obvious but expensive Atlas solution.

haha atlas yeah right lol, im trying to scrape enough together to MAYBE buy the d.d. kit or have a 1 peice shaft made.

Rick C. like I told you in the pm, not mad at you, these things happen and the price was right lol. Im not a machining genius so I don't have a guess as to how it happened, im sure it warped or something. probably just some higher power whether it be god or the flying spaghetti monster telling me not to wheel this thing with a doubler with no cage or sliders. while I try to fig out what to do with the drivetrain im going to carry on with the sliders and the cage. needed something a little different to do tonight so I mounted my hi-lift jack in the back with a lock rack, I think it came out pretty good and its in there solid, here are pics,

also messing around at my dads and found a 72 jeep d44 out there, its got the 30 spline carrier I need and either 3.73 gears or possibly 4.88, ill go pull that sometime this week.

 

[janderson4010]

man all 3 of those pics suck, took with my iphone that btw I hate, don't buy one.

 

[janderson4010]

ok no dice on Eric's buddy machining that shaft for me, Eric is going to take the shaft down to a large machine shop in salt lake city for me tomorrow and see what they will charge me for a one piece shaft. if they are to much ill be saving my sheckles for a dd machine kit, i've got most of the dinero lined up, just need to come up with about another 150 bucks. Obviously id like to get it done a little cheaper than that but beggars can't be choosers.

I think I want to start work on some other funner things, the boatsides (sliders) are a good starting point but im thinking a tube tailgate would be pretty cool, and also a rear bumper, the bumper im just thinking some of that 2x4" with capped ends would be pretty stout.

 

[rookieshooter]

Excellent spot for your H-jack. That reminds me to redo my jack mount and put it back close to where yours is. Mine has changed locations several time, imagine that.
I had it where yours is now but due to the tire carrier I had to put it back on the roll cage. But I found a way to put it between fuel cell and tire carrier. Which will put it at a much better weight friendly location...behind rear axle. So this will help in the weight bias from front to rear axle which these chopped top B2s need.

 

[janderson4010]

Excellent spot for your H-jack. That reminds me to redo my jack mount and put it back close to where yours is. Mine has changed locations several time, imagine that.
I had it where yours is now but due to the tire carrier I had to put it back on the roll cage. But I found a way to put it between fuel cell and tire carrier. Which will put it at a much better weight friendly location...behind rear axle. So this will help in the weight bias from front to rear axle which these chopped top B2s need.

especially since you've loaded down the front with square tubing right?

haha jk man

 

[rookieshooter]

especially since you've loaded down the front with square tubing right?

haha jk man

Ha ha, got to do something to counter the weight of the up coming D70 rear axle.

 

[janderson4010]

im getting myself psyched up to go cut the bottom 8" off the rockers on the bII, gotta make way for some 2x4" steel that will make up my sliders and the foundation for my cage. ill go pull the computer and ebrake stuff out and see if the seatbelt mounts need moved as well. it's gonna be a big job.

 

[janderson4010]

check out the care instructions on this impact gun that Heath gave me, it seems to work ok, just the guy overseas writing the labels must have been the factory owners son in law or something to get the job, seems he has only the faintest grasp on the English language

 

[Heath]

Yeah, you should really listen to what he's saying... Bad grammar or not...

 

[janderson4010]

Yeah, you should really listen to what he's saying... Bad grammar or not...

it makes me laugh that this is the 3rd time you have skipped over the blatantly funny first phrase to say some dumb **** about wearing eye protection, I had my glasses on, i figured i would be fine. and even with a piece of molten steel in my eye I came and got the head for your compressor.

now should i work on Heaths compressor or cut on the bII? hmmmmm...

 

[Heath]

Hey I told you to stay home and play with your molten steel eyeball...

 

[rookieshooter]

check out the care instructions on this impact gun that Heath gave me, it seems to work ok, just the guy overseas writing the labels must have been the factory owners son in law or something to get the job, seems he has only the faintest grasp on the English language

Are you sure that's not some kind of kinky adult toy thingy. I mean, it is Heath's right? May want to wear some kind of rubber gloves also.
And just what do you have to breath into? I think you have the destroyer model.

 

[Heath]

No no, its Jon's... Granted I gave it to him, but it was still new in the box...

 

[janderson4010]

Are you sure that's not some kind of kinky adult toy thingy. I mean, it is Heath's right? May want to wear some kind of rubber gloves also.
And just what do you have to breath into? I think you have the destroyer model.

thats funny bk Heath told me he needed his impact back so he could use it that way, Heath I guess your caught...

 

[Heath]

I still can't use the damn thing until we get those compressor parts!

 

[janderson4010]

I would have thought the air hammer would have worked better for that though, and you can borrow my compressor if you REALLY need it lol.

 

[janderson4010]

check it out