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Sweet, I'm telling you that rig would look way better coverd in mudd :metal::lol:
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When ya get a chance, could you take some pics of your tailpipes...same about the paint
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Dude, where did you get your tranny? I got the motor in and running but the tranny doesn't work. Critter is gonna help me out w/ the rebuild. I'm almost ready to get it out on the street. Lookin great dude. Later, Mario
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Tranny is a Monster Transmission's SS Mega Monster 700r4...built for 650HP :devil: I also order a fully rebuilt NP241 from them. They replace just about everything except the case and use Morse chains.
I managed to get a lot of good "shop time" in this weekend. All of the major pieces are on hand and I started prepping for the install. First order of business was to unwrap all the hardware: 700r4 http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3125.sized.jpg NP241 http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3126.sized.jpg JB conversions SYE...found it on ebay NIB for $200!! Corrects the major weakness of the NP241. http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3130.sized.jpg Next step was to finish all the plumbing on the brake system upgrades I'd been working on. I got the master cylinder lines bent and installed. Now I just need to bleed the system. http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3127.sized.jpg This next pic may seem a little out of order. But, there's a method to the madness. Installed some diff armor from Ruffstuff...D44 front cover, 14FF rear cover and a diff cover bracket for the rear brake line splitter. http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3124.sized.jpg Installed the rear cover and bracket and rebent my lines since they're centered on the diff cover now http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3128.sized.jpg It was time to tackle the the 241 and the SYE. Now, I've always been the guy who liked to take things apart to see how they worked. But, it was a little scary to think about splitting open my brand new 241 and tear it apart. No fear!! Must make progress. Propped it up on some of the packing foam and started. http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3129.sized.jpg HOLY @#$%!!!! Completely torn down. Looks like the tcase vomited all over the floor. http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3131.sized.jpg Almost finished assembly. Dinner called so it was time call it a day and go home. All that's left is to do on the 241 is button up the case and put the speedo housing back on. http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3132.sized.jpg More to come in the next few days. |
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Lookin' good. Keep it up.
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Dude that looks awesome. one question, why the 241. I think these were on the Dodge ram chargers back in the 70's. I don't know what other rigs they were on. If i'm not mistaken, those are pretty stout for chain driven t-cases. The 700r4 is def something I want to do way up the road. Right now the th350 is gonna get rebuilt. I'm also ready to buy my shocks. You have the 5100's right? How do they ride? Where did you get yours? Online or 4wp? Let me know. Later, Mario
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241's also came in a lot of chevy trucks, lighter than the 205 with a better 1st gear ratio.
I'm going to run the same drive train as AJ is, still looking for my SYE. Good timing AJ, I can watch/learn from this thread before I tackle my own, thanks. :) |
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I'm diggin' the diff covers - stout!
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Impressive!!, are the 241's drivers side drop?
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UPDATE 9/15/08 - I spent a couple of hours the shop wrapping up the SYE conversion on the 241. I gotta admit, it wasn't that bad. JB Conversions did a great job on their instructions. The only question I ran into was which direction to install the blue speedo gear...I didn't pay attention when I took it off. The hardest part of the install was removing and installing the snap rings. There are 4 to remove in the tear down and 3 to install on the build. For anyone looking to do this conversion in the future, invest in a good set of snap ring pliers. The snap rings look like the one shown below. They don't have the holes in the tips that I'm used to seeing.
http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3137.sized.jpg All in all it was a good evening. Here's the finished SYE 241: http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3138.sized.jpg Tomorrow night: remove the TH350/205 combo and put it up for sale. |
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does the th350 still work?
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UPDATE 9/16/08: We (I had help tonight) got the TH350/NP205 combo out of the truck. It was a battle just about every step of the way. The dual exhaust made it difficult to pull the tranny crossmember out. We ended up disconnecting the collectors and a couple of exhaust hangers to get some room...the collectors are resting on the floor at this point. Once we got the crossmember down, tranny got hung up on the headers...this may have partly been because we pulled the 350/205 out as a complete unit. I wish I had a taken a pic of the carnage underneath the truck, but I didn't. The only pic of the night was the purple 350/205 sitting on a tranny jack in the corner.
http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3139.sized.jpg Tomorrow night: start the 700r4 install! |
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I'm eager to see the new tranny in place!
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UPDATE 9/17/08: The tranny is bolted in! We mocked up the crossmember and it is moved back about 1.5". The tall style 700r4/208 or 700r4/241 adapter is definately the way to go. It's a direct bolt in with the 1st gen crossmember. We still need to do all the small stuff with the tranny...hook up the cable shifter, TV cable, torque converter lockout, and the tranny cooler. We also need to bolt in the 241.
Here's a pic of the installed 700r4 showing the adapter and crossmember. http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3142.sized.jpg Tomorrow night: bolt in the 241 and attempt to get some of the wiring and cable related stuff done on the 700r4. |
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UPDATE 9/18/08: The transfer case and the crossmember are in! All of the heavy lifting is now done.
700r4/SYE241 http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3143.sized.jpg There are a number of outstanding items I still need to take care of to button up the install: Things to acquire:
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This stuff will have to wait a week or so. I need a night off tomorrow as I have more than used up my kitchen passes with the wife this week. Also, this weekend is the opening weekend of dove season in South Texas. It woulda been kicka$$ to have the truck ready and drive it out there...maybe next year. |
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Looks good AJ, I was starting to wonder how you got all these free nights off, guess it's catching up to you now.
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Its lookin' good. Check this guy out for your driveshaft needs. I've bought from him before and he makes nice stuff. http://www.4xshaft.com/index.html
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UPDATE 10/7/08: Been working like crazy over the weekend and the last several evenings trying to get the truck driveable. There's a Show-N-Shine at the local 4WP this weekend. After getting the tranny and tcase into the rig it's been trying to wrap up all the little stuff associated with doing one of these builds. Here's where the story's at:
I had some new hydraulic hoses made and plumbed the new tranny cooler. I used some angle iron for a little extra strength and notched out the ends to serve as tabs. Came out pretty good, I think. http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3151.sized.jpg Next was wiring up the lockup for the torque converter. I went with a switch type, so's the control freak in me could decide when it would lock up. Mounted it on the shifter tower for now. Unless you know it's there, you don't really know it's there. http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3152.sized.jpg Put on the new Ruffstuff D44 diff cover. It's a great pic of my steering stabilizer, but a lousy pic of the cover http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3153.sized.jpg Order up some driveshaft bling-bling from Thrash Driveshaft (a local shop). I had a new front CV shaft made...it's got a Spicer CV for a bit more travel and durability. And decided to go CV on the rear. They took my old rear shaft, which was still in good shape, cut the end off and put a Spicer CV head on it. With the BBC454/700r4/SYE241, my rear shaft (34")actually came out 2" shorter than my front shaft (36"). One thing to note...since the spline count is the same for both the front and rear output shafts, you can put any flange from the front output on a 208 or 241 on the rear output. You'll still need to machine off 1/4", which is what I'll be doing to run the new CV rear. http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3155.sized.jpg Other miscellaneous stuff included bleeding out the brakes, retorque-ing my shackle bolts to 45ft/lbs (we originally put them on super tight with an impact....mostly cuz I didn't know any better), put the exhast back together, and put the tires on. This is the closest the truck has been to "put together" in several months. http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3158.sized.jpg The new shafts still have to be put in. But, I have a couple more tricks up my sleeve for the 241. One is dependant on a part I ordered from Kert...we'll see if it comes in tomorrow . I'm also working thru a slick cable shift idea in my head...we'll see how that pans out. For now, I'll have to crawl under the truck to shift it. Oh well.... |
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UPDATE 10/11/08: The 241 hangs fairly low in it's factory factory location, so I wanted to gain some clearance back. So, I ordered up a 241 clocking ring from Kert @ DIY4X.
http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3159.sized.jpg I didn't want to clock the 241 completely flat since I still wanted to run my exhaust above the tcase. So I went with the first hole past stock. Here's where the case sat stock: http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3161.sized.jpg The install was super easy. Took me an hour total to take the case down, prep the surfaces, bolt up the ring, and rehang the case. Ended up with nice clearance. The bottom of the case is even with the bottom of the crossmember. http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3163.sized.jpg Went to install my front shaft and ran into problems. When the case is clocked up, the front output rotates further into the passenger side. After about an hour of grinding and beating on my collector flange, I managed to get the shaft in, with less than 1/16" of clearance. http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3166.sized.jpg http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3167.sized.jpg I decided that just wasn't going to work well, so I ended up taking out the clocking ring. http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3169.sized.jpg BUT, when that was done, so was the truck. I finally got to drive it. The 700r4 shifts smoooooooth, and the overdrive is nice on the highway. The whole reason for the compressed build was to get the truck ready for the 4WP October sale and Show n Shine event today. The truck took 1st place for Best Mods (paint, suspension, engine). Here's the poser trophy shot: http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3180.sized.jpg For everyone who's been asking about me flexing the truck some and getting it into the rocks...here ya go: http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3175.sized.jpg The Ruffstuff diff covers were awesome. Especially since I hung up the front diff on the last rock coming out. I have a couple of small bugs to work out. I need to rotate my rear axle up to correct the pinion angle for the CV shaft...it's got some driveline vibes, and one of the outer axle seals on the front D44 decided to start leaking. But with the magnitude of the tranny build, I'm happy with how small the bugs are and how everything turned out. |
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Nice wheeling. I was def motivated to get mine closer to running after seeing your Blazer and Steve's '67 swb 4x4. The tranny and t-case both come out today dammit!!!!!!!
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Nice work AJ...the Blazer looks great.
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Careful...
Once you do it in the rocks ya never go back. ;) :lol: Glad you got it done for the show, impressive. |
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Congrats on the trophy!
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UPDATE 02/01/09: Been a while since I did an update. Just been driving it this fall and doing "tweaks" here and there. Nothing noteworthy. Some of my b-day stuff showed up from UPS and had some time to put it on yesterday.
Wire looms, poly tranny mount, shifter labels (so I can tell when I'm in 1st gear), and prop valve (more on that later) http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3400.sized.jpg When I jacked up the tranny, the tcase hit the floor of the body. Barely enough room to wedge them in. http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3401.sized.jpg Been doing a little cleaning up of the engine compartment here and there. The looms were a nice touch, and functional. They get my plug wires off of the headers. http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3403.sized.jpg http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3404.sized.jpg Didn't have time to do the prop valve. But here's what's going on. Even with the Inline tube (4 wheel disc) prop valve, the rear tires are locking up before the fronts. Not sure how good of an investment that was. Anyways, that's next weekend's project... |
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Looking good AJ.
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Lookin good dude. How much were the trans mounts and where'd you get them? When I put the new tranny in I noticed mine were pretty crapped out. Anyways, I'm getting really close to getting Ol' Yeller on the road. I drove it down the block the other day. I was pretty stoked. That's when I found out the brake booster had seen better days. I'm gonna take it to have the exhaust done next weekend and try to fix the small electrical problem it has. Anyways, glad to see your Blazer is coming along so well. Later dude.
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Looks like it's about ready for a long trip...Tenn perhaps. :gi: ;)
Really nice blazer your building! |
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Nice work AJ! Coming along very well.
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Nice flat black VC's and air cleaner, got a closeup of the DS cowl, back of head. How much clearance is there?
Post up about prop. valve, curious to see how it works out Nice improvements so far... |
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Will put more details up next weekend about the prop valve. From what I've read, most are gutting the factory prop valve and just putting the adjustable one inline on the rear brakes. Essentially what I have to do now, except I already paid $100 for a prop valve from Inline tube that was supposed to take care of this. |
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UPDATE 02/07/09: The rest of my bday parts showed up. A friend with access to a waterjet cut some tow hooks for me. There is a serious cool factor about cutting metal with water. He did a killer job on them...no issues with fitment. 3/4" steel :metal:
http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/albu...3423.sized.jpg Didn't get anything done on the brakes today cuz I was sick all week. The engine is having some fuel delivery issues too. More updates soon, I hope. |
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