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Nice work, I look forward to seeing your rear suspension. On mine I'm planning ultra cheap but heavy duty. Heavy duty semi trailer trailing arms with huge 1" bolts and I might use schedule 80 pipe. I have 4 new air bags from a trailer I purchased years ago. We'll see when if I get to this any time soon. :lol:

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i will recommend to stay away from pipe. it isnt built to withstand forces the same way as mechanical tubing. i can imagine the trailing arms will be more than enough, that **** is manly.

i need to order the bags, and ill have to build some dummy links until i get my ends, but i got a start. hope to put in a little time after work each night. tonight was burning out the parts. tomorrow is some bending and maybe a little welding. you can see my idea for weld washes in the pic. i still need to punch the holes. i prefer to use the ironworker for bolt holes so they are right on. we can scribe locate the holes on the plasma table so they are in the right spot too.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l8...ps20d59858.jpg

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The base material is .250" and the weld on parts are 10ga. total thickness at the stress area will be over 3/8"

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Man that is a lot of welding you have to look forward too! That thing will be over the top! By the way, "weld washes"? What is that? The double thick parts that hold a load?

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Weld washers are just metal welded over the bolt hole to add more material for the bolt to act against. helps keep the holes from getting ovaled. i just had to go all ritzy for mine. i had considered using a normal style stepped weld washer and 3/16" material. my need for adding weight bled through and i did the thicker material and cut out stuff.

got it all bent up and all the holes punched. tomorrow, Weld.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l8...ps0f7033cf.jpg

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Sweet bracketry!

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did a little welding tonight.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l8...ps541fc401.jpg

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l8...ps8c33aa4e.jpg

didnt get the last bit done on one.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l8...psd7fc904d.jpg

and a gratuitous weld shot. damn phone makes it all blurry. i promise i dont weld that blurry

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l8...psb1e3110e.jpg

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I's just throw all that s**t in a box and send it to me.................................................


















LMAO! It looks awesome! You're a god with metal dude!

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Are you sure you don't have some kind of machine to do all of your welding for you? lol It definitely looks awesome!

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i think this stuff would go past the UPS single box weight limit!

Thanks!

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got the last of the welding done. hope to do some fitting on the frame tomorrow... not sure if ill pull the rear suspension yet, or wait till i have the bags. i still need to get the cab to the body guy, but i need good weather to haul it out of the garage and get it on the trailer...

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l8...psd491ee58.jpg

Ryan

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Weld candy my man!

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sort of mocked up. as always, there are hurdles i figured id have to whack the body mount. so it was. but now i am considering longer links. not that its really neccesary, but since i had to whack the body mount, i have a little freedom to move a bit. i doubt i do since i will be lowering the AS of the geometry the further i move it forward. also, i loosened the bends up a little with my welding so i need to tweak those a little before it can be welded up. oops. i didnt even think about checking it before i left work friday. i may be able to borrow a buddies press tomorrow to fix them, otherwise its waiting till monday.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l8...psd56995c8.jpg

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l8...psb9ee136b.jpg

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Very nice! That stinks the cab mount was in the way.

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i never get to bent about cutting off stock stuff! if i had a longhorn frame, id be in business.

DOM came in today... still a few tweaks of bracketry to be made.

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I can hook you up! I have a spare frame! :lol:

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i cut a few 1"x.120" sleeves to use as spacers when it all gets welded. i faced them to get them all square and equal length.

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l8...ps72986b2a.jpg

got all the brackets in order, tacked the inside on, and measured for the access hole for the body mount. now i have to cut the hole...

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l8...ps1c69745a.jpg

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l8...ps3e98f6b4.jpg

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More weld candy! Makin me want to go get my welder fired up!

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Looks good!

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so.... how much you charge to cut out another set? :D

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Thanks

Im not even sure what these cost me yet. id have to calculate that all up first. Ryan is wanting a set too, so if i need to cut two i can.
ryan

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Wahoo!!

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I foresee a side product for you my friend!

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i am still a little sketched about not having any real R&D on it. for all i know, it will suck bunghole when i finally drive it.

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And Josh, i am not sure how the geometry will work on a lower truck. you had planned to do a 2wd right? i saw your wedge for sale, so maybe you are gonna do a 4x?

it may not be all that reasonable on a 2wd with my heights and angles. i am pretty sure ryan will be OK since he and i are close to the same in height. his is a little longer, but that will be no big deal on the AS. in fact, he may be a little taller an that would help bring it back to the sameish

Ryan