Sounds like you'll have some wintertime projects. Hope to get out this fall and do some Trout fishing.
yeah I just got word that I will have a bigtime winter project, we found a hp d44 from a early 70s F100, the plan is to narrow it, put more modern outers on it and have myself a bad ass axle, pretty excited about that, I love this kind of stuff.
was gonna lift the rig this week but the leaf spring bushings are stuck on the bolts and I couldn't find replacement bushings that will be here by tomorrow night, so the new shackles will be a week or 2 away. instead I put some protection on my diff covers, they have been taking a beating, and the 8.8 was actually hitting the ring gear lol, here are some pics
the cage will worked on maybe next weekend, we still need to clean the shop up and get ready for tube work, it actually isn't that far off, need to get the halo bar in and the A pillars, then most of the rest I can bring home to finish.
Yeah Rick I live next to the confluence of 2 major trout rivers, the southfork of the snake is my home river and the Henry's fork is really famous for its bug hatches, with that kind of water so close I can't not hit up the fly fishing action, I went to Henry's lake near Yellowstone park with my uncle, he retired from caterpillar and now he just lives up there and fishes every day in the summer. this is a 23" 4lb cutthroat I landed on a 5wt fly rod