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Installed the winch over the weekend it’s an open road 13k, don’t think I could have built the bumper any better if I had the winch to build around. I put a strain on my crappy welds and nothing broke. I put my ‘22 superduty (company truck) in 4wd low put the transmission in neutral and locked...

About 65 mph it gets a slight whine. I was hoping that I would get it but for my first gear setup reusing old gears it’s not as bad as I expected. Hopefully when I move up to 37s and swap in 4.88s I can setup the new gears to run quite.

Yes wheel seal leaking I thought I had ripped it putting the axle in but it’s leaking around the seal at the housing. I started to put rtv around the seal when installing them, wish I would have now.

We’ll crap.

When you get to this point you’re getting close.

The winch I decided to go with is the @openroad4wd winch13k lb. I tested fitted it and I will need to relocate the control box, I did this while I was thinking about the gears I was setting up and waiting for someone to guide me on the interwebs. From multiple people I should have just bought...

Also the shim kit came in for the 9.5 so wish me luck on swapping gears and carrier.

A little more progress. Part’s finally came from Barnes, I got the coil mounts and the bump pads welded on. Fully welded the track bar bracket on and boxed the upper link brackets. I plan to trim the lower a little bit a box it also.

Thank you. That means a lot coming you. You are living out my dream with your business! I just never imagined there would have been as large of a market as there is.

I used my oem 10 bolt disc brakes the hardest part was cutting the baking plate mount off the 10 bolt to weld on the 9.5

In the process of building a semi float 14 now. Any tips on the regear?

The yes welder I bought has been great. It can be used it with gas and stick, it has a tig option as well. My welding skills are not the best. But it’s rated to weld 3/8”. The only thing I don’t like is that all measurements are metric.

thanks

Not much this weekend tacked the track bar bracket on. Waiting on parts for Barnes 4wd before I finish welding it up. Gm 9.5 diff cover from undercover fabworks came in and I smoothed the lower portion of the housing down, took a 3/8” lip off the bottom. Also received my diff rebuild kit from...

Got the brake baking plate mounts and some of the brackets welded to the axle. Yes newer Tahoes and suburbans come with this axle already, kinda. The newer ones have smaller wheel bearings than this axle and the 4.10 ring and pinion from the 3/4 ton axle I have will not swap over the pinion...

Gmt800 burbs and tahoes in Central and South America came with cat eye front ends. A local migrant worker has one he bought new in Argentina if I remember correctly.

This build is the reason I bought a gmt800 ???

By the way when you head out this summer give me a holler if you come through Missouri and I may be able to show you some of my favorite places if you can make time.

Thanks, I appreciate it. I agree with Josh on keeping it simple bracket lifts are ehhh.... If you can find some torsion keys from a 97-03 F150 (oem keys) they will lift you about 3 inches and you can install hummer H2 conversion coils from rockauto and that will also lift the rear about 3" and...

Also check out suboverland and notice how everyone of his builds are built. Pretty simple.