Besides the horrible ride that thing will have, rust is the biggest dictator of yay or nay. Lift up the rear seat and lift up the carpet there and look for rust. Expecially above the muffler. Floor pans are easy to replace tho, structuall stuff like leaf spring mount are not. Check for cracks...
Yesterday I installed new leaf springs. I went with rancho 1.5" lift springs and used my .75" setting on my IRO shackles. Today I went for a test drive from my house to three creeks lake via Offroad.
Aired down to around 24psi just o smooth out the trail.
I took skyliners road to the end...
New tool day!!
MAC tools 130
I did a couple quick tests with random pieces. It'll take a minute to get it dialed in but it's way better than the Lincoln I was borrowing.
Thank you baja. Yes I do plan on Putting a reciever on the bumper and getting rid of the factory hitch. But that will be down the road. I ordered a welder through our Mac tools dealer today. My time was up borrowing the Lincoln.
Nice work. POR15 is great. I used it a lot when I was working in a body shop. A little FYI, it doesn't adhere to clean paint and clean steel to well, it has to be rusted. You'll be ok, but it may peel up.
I've had a knocking noise coming for the rr last few times out. I figure it was the shock and I was right.
The bushing slid out and the eyelet was contacting the body. I didn't really want to do anything but remove the ****ty ****ty procomp BS1000 or what evers.
In only at around 2-2.5" lift...
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