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So my awsome adventure on droping the beast:
Thursday:
I desided to do the rear first.So i unbolted the bed an tail light wireing so i could use the block and tackle to lift the bed off the truck. while i was in the bed of the truck i hooked up the chain an rope i was using to lift the bed. went to jump out of the bed and my foot got tangled in a rachet strap and i face planted out of the bed on to the shop floor(i was the only one around th whole place)so i layed on the floor for a few minutes.

after that it was pretty stright forward lift the bed off pull the truck forward jack it up and start tearing into it. did the shackles first they were pretty easy. next was the front hangers from hell. all the rivets were easy to shear off and punch out but the bolt that goes through the spring pack eye let was in there pretty good.so as you can see fro the pictures i had to cut the hanger off so i could use my air hammer to bet the bolt out (it took for ever!) was going to bolt the hagers on that day but dude sold me wrong bolts.so ended thursday with everything done on the rear minus bolting on the rear hangers and shocks.

Friday:
Woke up jumped in the vert and ran to town to get proper bolts/pick up tie rods,ball joints,adjustment sleeves and bearing seals and grease. came home bolted the hangers together,threw the shocks on truck was now back on the ground. cleaned up so i could load the bed back on. with the bed back on i was now ready to get the front started. started tearing it apart.got everything all unbolted go to taking the caliper off (No flipping clue how to remove it LOL never done this style before) cousin billy came over to help and he had actually just done breaks on similar truck. so from here on out everything was pretty stright forward with getting it done got the passenger side all together started the driver side but got late so we called it a night.

Sat: woke up started putting the ball joint in and tie rod with adjustment sleeve.billy showed up and did the bearing while i did the shock an got everyhting ready for the spindal. had everyhting bolted back together around 2ish.Front was way out of wack (allignment) so we did a tape messure allignment. after that it was bolt the bed down, hooked the tail lights back up. than it wa test drive time!!! went for a quick cruise round the block trying to settle the suspention driver side did. went back home grabed my twin brother (needed the extra weight on the pass side) went down the road hit a lil dip and the pass side settled.so we cruzed around abit got looks every where we went.

So thats my adventure. kinda boring but it was a fun one and i would do it again in a heart beat.

Only thing diffrent i would do is take more time and clean and paint everything (but i was on a time line shops getting re wired for all new lighting)

great story man ! i love hearing about project builds. theres normally never a dull moment. lol such as face planting haha i pictured that . of course its funny because it wasnt my big ass falling this time. lol anyway, glad it worked out.

all i could think about when i was falling was "don't catch your self don't catch your self" lol thats all i would need a broken wrist or arm.

haha very true . that coulda made a good day go bad real quick. so no vibrations or what not when you were out cruising it?

actully funny you said that. i forgot to post. When i get to around 80Km LOL(thats what my dash says) about 80-90 there is a vibration but some times when i slow down and than get back up to that speed it's gone? but when it does vibrate it can be felt in the seat and floor (that means its coming from the rear right?)

the more common cause of that would be pinion angle of the driveshaft. especially common/expected since you lowered it. also along with that ...do you have a carrier bearing on there? i dont remember if you do. that goes with the whole driveline thing. they do go bad as well. when mine went out i had some wicked shakes and vibrations.

yeah i have the hanger bearing. should swap it out and see what happens? it looks Original lol.

lol yea i would. worse case man, you will have nice peace of mind with your new carrier bearing . one less thing to screw with later.

if it's not that how would i go about getting the drive line fixed up?

the drive shaft in mine was vibrateing like hell, found out my u-joint decided to seperate, replaced and then a week later the vibes came back agoin, turned out i had to put a spacer on either side of the u-joint so it would sit level, now i just have to buy a new u-joint.lol



But yea, it could be caused by either on of the u-joints, or your carrier bearing.

Your truck has the same stance as mine now,lol





shackles,hangers,and coils, now i need a flip kit and drop spindles.