What did you get done this weekend?

[Palf70Step]

Got the final building permits cleared for the new shop, but did nothing truck wise. Saturday I had to drive 3 hrs to mid state to take my daughter for an interview for a alternative high school for the gifted. I was either driving Saturday or at the school. Guess I'll be sorta sending my little girl off to college 2 years early. Guess that means the 82 will leave home too.

Sunday I did homework and prep for finals this week. Man I will be glad for that 2 week break.

[Liz]

I got to yank the 66 around the yard with the Ram, walked past my truck quite a few times. One day I'll have something worthwhile to say :p

[C&C Chevy]

Put in a new Stewart stage 1 water pump. Washed and vacuumed the truck.

[7T7]

Started my 4-Link....

[N2TRUX]

What made you decide to go with a 9"? You putting something nasty under the hood?

[7T7]

Originally Posted by N2TRUX

What made you decide to go with a 9"? You putting something nasty under the hood?

Nasty motor? No. :p Though it is difficult to do a motor build and stay within reason. (Damn catalogs)
We went with the 9" for a few reasons. First was the wheel spacing dictated a slightly narrower rear end.
That meant new axles. I had a 9" case and yoke sitting around and planed to do a posi and gear change anyway.
It just didn't make sense to modify the old 12 bolt. Plus they just look TRICK!

[Joey-D]

I was trying to adjust my carb (Holley 600cfm) to pass emissions and since I don't know much, ok anything, about tuning I misadjusted the needle cause fuel to jump out the vent tube, causing an engine fire. I saved it though. Now having my buddy rebuilt the holley with .62 jets insted of the .66 to help pass emissions. After the fire, I went on to built me a table. I took an old coffee table and about a gazillion bud light and budweiser and naty light caps and glues them down.. Natys on the left and right and budlights in the middle throughout with red budweisers making a budweiser bowtie. Next is mortering between them and covering with a product that is liquid and flows over things to make a transparent level top. Like the tables at hooters. I would post pics but my digital camera is in the mail (just bought it) and I don't even know if it would owrk on this weboard now!

[Grim Reaper]

Originally Posted by 7T7

Started my 4-Link....

Your going to have to 5 link that. Having the control arms parrallel you have not latteral control. It needs a panhard bar.

If you take the two center pars and have them meet at a angle over the diff then you can run without a panhard. It will have minimal rear steer under load.

goto www.pirate4x4.com/forum and do some suspension search. Use key words like "anti Squat, 4 link, ackeman angle etc. THere is a ton of indepth stuff in there that you can pick up a few pointers.

[7T7]

Originally Posted by Grim Reaper

Your going to have to 5 link that. Having the control arms parrallel you have not latteral control. It needs a panhard bar.

If you take the two center pars and have them meet at a angle over the diff then you can run without a panhard. It will have minimal rear steer under load.

goto www.pirate4x4.com/forum and do some suspension search. Use key words like "anti Squat, 4 link, ackeman angle etc. THere is a ton of indepth stuff in there that you can pick up a few pointers.

5 link huh…
Thanks Grim. I know from the pictures it doesn’t look like we know what we’re doing but like I said in my original post “I started my 4 link” I'm not even close to being done .
We bag about 2 vehicles a month here and are using a diagonal track locator now. (not in picture yet) And before any one chimes in about Art Morrison and diagonals on a steer car, let me just say we’ve had a diagonal on a 69 Camaro G-Machine for 18 months now and the car is driven (hard) daily with zero problems. (So far…hehe) We know why the rod ends fail and have addressed that issue.
The panhard works well if you have plenty of wheel clearance or have limited travel, but on this particular truck we are going to be a little tight. We’ve ran wishbone track locators in the past with great success but are trying something different and it seems to work very well. I’ll post more pictures hopefully this weekend of the bag location and diagonal locator. I just never have time to work on my own stuff!

Ackerman Theory, 4 link, 4 bar set up? Learned that stuff along time ago.

[CT-Truckster]

well lets see....
I flew a kite
rode 4 wheelers
and sandblasted some valve covers, intake, and exhaust manifolds from a 55 crown vic for my dad that he is doing an engine bay "restoration" on. Its one of those cars that looks real good but then when you pop the hood you think damn, musta run outta money.