ben_j_c
Active member
Well another busy week!
We are in the process of overhauling all of the brakes, bearings, hubs, u-joints and adding lockers. I cannot say enough good things about the Milwaukee Impact, it has been a life saver on this project.
Removing the wheels from the truck was a royal pain. I ended up having to run a chain through the wheel holes and then put a bottle jack against the axle flange on the back and the lug nuts with a board on the front. Still took some serious convincing with a large sledge even after they were broken free. I bought a huge jar of anti-seize for putting it all back together. (Sorry, no photos)
We are putting a full Detroit locker, an EAT250SL166 in the rear. I was hoping to find an air locker, but the Dana S135 never had one and all the people I talked to with a TruTrack in this truck were not super hot on it. So full locker it is. Here it is waiting to be torqued down.
This nut required buying an 8 point 3.25 inch socket, it is a monster.
I had some excellent help under the truck.
The front is up next, I bought a RD166 from @mk216v , is should be here this week!
Also huge thanks to @Superduty who gave us a free instrument cluster with MPH markings.
My wife spent all evening yesterday freeing the dash to put it in. We will pull it out of the truck tonight. We are also going to put more sound insulation up around the firewall and clean out all the ducting. I am thinking about 3D printing a cool switch panel too, but have not fully flushed out the design. If anyone has good lucking switch placement on a Super Duty dash please share a few photos.
Also special thanks to this service manual for the 1999 Super Duties, it has been very helpful.
On the camper front we located and acquired a 96" long pan and box brake off craigslist up in Washington. We tried to buy one off of @TrailTestedMFG as they are 'complete' with their build, but it sounds like they know you are never quite done building these types of projects and are keeping theirs. This should let us bend up all of the exoskeleton and the boxes for under the truck.
We are in the process of overhauling all of the brakes, bearings, hubs, u-joints and adding lockers. I cannot say enough good things about the Milwaukee Impact, it has been a life saver on this project.
Removing the wheels from the truck was a royal pain. I ended up having to run a chain through the wheel holes and then put a bottle jack against the axle flange on the back and the lug nuts with a board on the front. Still took some serious convincing with a large sledge even after they were broken free. I bought a huge jar of anti-seize for putting it all back together. (Sorry, no photos)
We are putting a full Detroit locker, an EAT250SL166 in the rear. I was hoping to find an air locker, but the Dana S135 never had one and all the people I talked to with a TruTrack in this truck were not super hot on it. So full locker it is. Here it is waiting to be torqued down.
This nut required buying an 8 point 3.25 inch socket, it is a monster.
I had some excellent help under the truck.
The front is up next, I bought a RD166 from @mk216v , is should be here this week!
Also huge thanks to @Superduty who gave us a free instrument cluster with MPH markings.
My wife spent all evening yesterday freeing the dash to put it in. We will pull it out of the truck tonight. We are also going to put more sound insulation up around the firewall and clean out all the ducting. I am thinking about 3D printing a cool switch panel too, but have not fully flushed out the design. If anyone has good lucking switch placement on a Super Duty dash please share a few photos.
Also special thanks to this service manual for the 1999 Super Duties, it has been very helpful.
On the camper front we located and acquired a 96" long pan and box brake off craigslist up in Washington. We tried to buy one off of @TrailTestedMFG as they are 'complete' with their build, but it sounds like they know you are never quite done building these types of projects and are keeping theirs. This should let us bend up all of the exoskeleton and the boxes for under the truck.
