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Originally Posted by Dinos63
congrats trucks looking sic..... and congrats on the kids wow!
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No congradulations needed sir, actually I'm willing to pay people to take my kids.... They don't clean up, they whine a lot, they are expensive but hey, they are all good looking because of their Mom
Thanks for all the nice comments everyone, I hope it turns out half as nice as the rendering.
I'm starting to think I'm never going to get this damn thing finished... I spent 5-6 hours making the rear shock mount brackets because I got the bright idea of just modifying a set of stock front shocks and making them work for the rear...
Well, they work but holy crap was it a PITA to compress the shocks, hold the tabs, weld and try to make sure everything staid in the correct place all by myself... I did my fair share of cussing and acting like a child but I got it all done...
The reason it took me so long was that I used the top bolt setup from the front shock "the bolt with the long stud that comes with the shock" and used that for the bottom and welded it to my 4 link bracket to use for the bottom shock mount.
What I didn't realize at the time "like an idiot" was that the bottom hole in the shock isn't the same diameter as the top, it has a roll pin in a rubber grommet.
So... no big deal I thought I'd just use my press and push the roll pin out and bolt it in... WRONG! Once I got the stupid roll pin out of the grommet the hole was much too small for the bolt. So I spent about an hour with a high speed grinder trying to make the hole large enough because I didn't have a big enough drill bit. It actually turned out prety well but it took me a long time. There has to be a shock out there that will fit without any modification but I had already bought these shocks and didn't realize it would take this long to make these work. But now everything is welded in and fits pretty good. Now I need to figure out how to mount this gas tank.
Here are the tabs I made, I didn't take a good picture of how I did the bottom.
The good news is that both front and rear shocks are done.