What have you done to your rig today?

Added a little beef up front, seems I can't drive down a paved road without smacking it on something šŸ˜…
 

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Oil change day. Ordered 3 fuel filters but they won’t be here til next week. Nobody in Mount Airy seemed to have any anyway 🄓


12 qts $57 for synthetic, not bad.


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Installed the drive slugs this evening. Probably the easiest thing I’ve done with this one ton swap.
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Installed the drive slugs this evening. Probably the easiest thing I’ve done with this one ton swap.
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When you decide you need 40 spline shafts I have an extra set of 40 spline slugs from Branik who makes those for ECGS.
 
First test on public roads, worn out flat spotted 31’s from an old Xj until I cycle the suspension a few times and get it aligned.

Also I had a pile of gravel for my French drain, poser picks were the obvious answer
 

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Turned the narrow track into a wide track. While at it figured I would clean up and paint the drums. Then decided to add some paint to the wheels.
Before
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Front
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Rear
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Wheels before
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Wheels after
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Finished product
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Better stance
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A couple of months ago, I was coming up the easement and there was an 8 lug wheel and tire off the edge of the drive.

I ignored it a few days thinking it must have fell off of a neighbor’s trailer or something.

Then I figured out it was off my Dodge šŸ˜… my cable for the spare had broken right at the end.

So finally today I used a cable clamp to repair it all and put the spare back under the truck out of the way.

It is so unusually hot here that I was soaked in the 45 minutes it took 🄵
 
Haha! You are not alone. Another member on here one day noticed the spare under his Dodge Ram was missing and the cable was broken. Surely in a ditch somewhere, and most likely between his house and work, LOL.
 
Chasing down a tail light failure, found 2 of the 7 pins on the turn signal connector loose, something about trying to fake having the right crimping tool with needle nosesšŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø fixed that still didn’t work, got a new relay thinking it might be a relay not being rated for led.

After a day of frustration, the culprit, besides the 2 loose connections was a fuse. All systems go now!
 
A couple of months ago, I was coming up the easement and there was an 8 lug wheel and tire off the edge of the drive.

I ignored it a few days thinking it must have fell off of a neighbor’s trailer or something.

Then I figured out it was off my Dodge šŸ˜… my cable for the spare had broken right at the end.

So finally today I used a cable clamp to repair it all and put the spare back under the truck out of the way.

It is so unusually hot here that I was soaked in the 45 minutes it took 🄵
Mine broke off going over the train tracks
 
Mine broke off going over the train tracks
Mine apparently broke going over the bump at the creek bridge closest to the road 😁

Didn’t feel a thing šŸ¤·šŸ¼ā€ā™‚ļø

I remember seeing it and thinking ā€œwhat dumbass didn’t realize he lost that….ā€
 
5 degree caster, 1/8 toe in, within 1/32 centered, side to side wheelbase within a 1/32 as close as a tape-measure can do. Put the real tires on it aired to 30 and sent her.

First off, my trans controlled by terminator x max with art carr shifter is currently not set up for drive, so you have to click between gears. I also don’t have a speedo. So, 2300rpm in 4th is roughly 70, first speed test and I don’t think I’ll be doing much highway driving without a topšŸ˜‚

The hydro boost sponginess is gone, must’ve just needed cycled to bleed out air
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