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And here is a very crude video with a couple shots of the truck doing rock things and using the heck out of those brand new sliders...

But finally made it to the top lookout, which was unfortunately fogged out.. normally you should be able to see 20-30 miles out from this vantage point. We met a local on the way up who hung out with us the rest of the afternoon (great thing, because we needed his winch to un-stuck my friend's...

Then it was time to test it out this past Saturday! Just my friend and I solo driving our 2nd gens to a local mountain for some rock fun. The last 1000ft or so of trail still had really gross slush snow with hard-packed ice under it, and we got slippery and high centered several...

I got a new, longer front driveshaft made for it, which finally got finished and installed. While I was at it, I moved away from the factory oddball "Detroit 7290" u-joint size at the pinion yoke, and got the new shaft made up to accept a standard 1350 u-joint size at the pinion end (I thought...

Yeah I would say it's not super quiet, but our neighbor has a tuned 2009 Duramax with intake and exhaust, and my truck sounds about as loud idling on the street (and me standing in our front yard) as his does across a hedge and the property line. So the blankets most certainly quieted things...

For noise on a 24V, it all has to do with the injection pump, injector style, and injection pulses. A 12V with a P7100 or a 24V with a VP44 relies on the injection pump to individually pressurized each line, and mechanically pop open the injector. That right there introduces a lot of noise...

Thanks! For the quiet blankets, I still haven't had the chance to install the turbo+manifold blanket.. I had to modify it to add a steel eyelet for my EGT probe to pass through, as well as re-route my turbo oil feed line as its fitting at the filter housing was too close to the SteedSpeed...

For sure... but it's a lonnnnng build! Haha. Here it is: https://ls1tech.com/forums/conversions-hybrids/980909-lq4-into-3rd-gen-1972-nova.html

Thanks! Just a good old 2nd gen Dodge that isn't a chrome-rim'd tire-poked coal rolling pavement princess :cool:

Haha is there an intentional minutes-seconds angle joke in there....?! There's still some room for them to get reshaped before the door will hit them! here are a few decent pics of the sliders from just now...

Mmmm.. dat droop tho! :sneaky: And for the frame plates that the legs weld to, I went with 1/4" angle iron, in a minimum height of 4" tall, and 5" tall when possible, and 3-6" wide depending on the space on the frame and holes etc to weld around... This is the rough angle I...

For the legs of the sliders to the frame.. I wanted something a bit beefier than 0.120" wall tubing. Also, DOM is hella expensive right now.. so I opted for 1.5" schedule 80 pipe.. it ends up something like 0.24" wall and 1.875" OD, and was quite a bit cheaper. And even if the pipe's A53 mild...

I was originally going to copy my friend's 2nd gen and have the sliders mounted flat, but something about that just kind of stuck out in my eyes.. made the sliders look more like platforms, and just made them a bit more obvious-looking.. a bit too obvious-looking. Here the sliders are, mocked...

And now an accessory that has been lonnnng overdue.. sliders! If I'm putting a locker in this, it really needs slider to take advantage of that "are you sure you want to go there?" extra front traction... I purchased universal 78" long TrailGear sliders, and extended them 16" (the same spacing...

I had a very brief moment of thinking that maybe the heim jam nut was knocking around against the Thuren track bar bracket, so I trimmed that corner and test drove it.. and no improvement... As a last measure, I tried re-orienting the track bar Z-bend to be horizontal, to then give the diff...

I guess if you make your own problems, then it's all okay? I wasn't sure exactly how smoothly the +1.25" axle move would be, relative to all the other stuff happening on the front end, especially at my lower ~1.5" front lift... but something was bound to hit. With the axle roughly centered, of...

And here it is on the ground.. man is it rewarding to see ALL of this clearance to a still-fresh 37" tire.... Interesting thing to learn is that the tires now rub the lower control arms.. was not expecting that. My tires previously rubbed the upper control arms HARD which didn't...

And install time! It took a buddy and I about 4 hours to swap the front axle.. not too much screwery.. but I did totally mind-fart the fact that I set the new arms/axle up to use 9/16" upper and 5/8" lower grade 8 hardware.. and the frame side was still using factory 12mm/14mm (?) hardware. So...

The final assembly step before the axle was ready to go into the truck, was the Yukon diff cover, and steering tie rod fit/function testing, installation, and toe alignment while it's easy in the garage. A nice surprise is... unlike my old 1998 Dana 60 knuckles which required me to...

And the final assembly step was to drill holes in the center section casting for the air locker supply line and the relocated vent lone.. yikes! Found an area in the middle, that looked like it would have enough clearance to the locker body for a generous air line loop... Left lots...