Johnny Cash Tribute Truck

[bundeber]

so the rear diff was pretty cut and dry after that. The front differential was out of an 86 suburban or blazer and was a direct bolt in. It required new ubolts because some redneck engineer welded a ford ubolt tip to the top of a broken gm ubolt. You can tell because one side is fine thread, GM, and one side was course thread, Ford. I guess it worked for them, but I prefer to not wonder....

Unfortunately I added a leaf to help with the additional weight of the nv4500 and setting the engine forward and this required a 9 inch ubolt for the bolt that hooks over the edge of the pumpkin on the passenger side. Those aren't made, at least not for the local parts houses, and I ended up cutting threads down 2 inches on each side of a 12 in ubolt and cutting off 3 inches of the top.

On a side note, when ordering brake calipers for this front end, be sure to get new banjo bolts.... the bolts I had were american, and the calipers required metric. I had to steal some from a ford that was being scrapped at my dad's shop. Also, save your old banjo copper washers. The new ones are copper coated aluminum, or have a different alloy than the old ones and they tend to leak like crazy.