Thanks we named her "The Filthy Beast"
Beauty is only skin deep...but ugly is to the bone,you would be surprised how polite people are to her in traffic I cant remember the last time someone cut me off in traffic.Some day I would like to get the body work and paint done,but I am afraid that as soon as I do someone will run in to it,the cab is off an F-600 from the local oil fields and was rough when I put it on the frame.As you can probaly tell I am more concearned with function then cosmetics
I have a build thread on 4btswaps.com same user name.The jury is still out in the trutracks I broke the heads off two of the carrier bolts in the rear pulling the trailer through deep sand
but luckily did no damage to ring and pinion.I found the problem when I pulled the dif cover to change break in lube it turned out that I did not have enough preload on the carrier bearings.
I replaced all the carrier socket head cap screws @ 120 ft/lbs with read locktite and increased bearing preload from .010" to .018" so that should no longer be an isue,Timken's can last a long time with more preload then called for and that will reduce the stress on the carrier bolts.....I hope. I am waiting for it to rain so I can see how the front behaves,better to find out in an open field than on some mountain road with a cliff on one side. I like the rear off road it gets good traction without the harshness of a locker on road it is very similar to the old limited slip that I ran before
