75 Dually Project - 22s and stylin

I have decided to change course on the front end assembly. I am going with the stock dually brake assembly along with my 3" drop spindles. So I mocked up the assembly this evening and I am pleased with results.

I will still pie cut the upper a-arm to relieve the extreme angle on the upper ball joint. On the a-arm I cut up I will replace it with one off the donor burb.

I am still thinking about moving the cross member forward 1". Probably more trouble than it is worth, but it beats having to cut up the firewall and tubing it.

So today I took the lower a-arms over to a friends shop and pressed in new lower ball joints, and this weekend I will put the new upper ball joints in. I also have the new inner and outer tie rods to put on as well. So lots of little jobs to get accomplished.

Nice!..... are you gonna be cupping the lowers?

Not sure yet... I am going to set up the air bags later this weekend and see what I want to do.

If I end up cupping them I have a buddy who owns a company that installs those farming center pivots sprinkler systems, and he has some perfect 10" well casing scrap laying around. So at least if I do cup the lowers I have the right stuff to do it with.

cool.....

OK I went and spent some serious money today. I purchased the Accuair e-level setup along with their new iLevel system. They are just about to release the Android version of the iLevel. They said it should be a couple of weeks before they release it, so that was cool.

However I did not buy their valve assembly. Their valve assembly is a 3/8", and the more I talked to them about it and asked them directly how fast is really was, the more it turned out it was slower than the current 3/8" valve assembly I have today on another ride. Basically the sales guy admitted that their systems speed is between a 1/4" and 3/8" normal valve assembly. Not on my dually! So I went with the Airbaggit 1/2" airengine valve system. And before you ask, yes you can run another companies valve system off their controller. Maybe not as plug and play as I would have wanted, but I am not going to put up with that slow of a system speed for that much money.

I also got my rims sent off to Trevor (Thanks Trevor for all the help today!) at Tennessee Wheel and Tire. I can't wait until these are back and I get the tires mounted up.

So now I'm broke... But HAPPY! HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY!!!

whats ur plan for wheels? any custom milling?

I have a set of Accurides. Below is a picture of them the day I picked them up. I talked to Trevor at TN Wheel and he said that the Accurides are actually thicker than the Alcoa's. So they are a better candidates for machining.

I am not having any special machining done to them at this time. I am however going to have the rear 4 rims milled on the face to reduce the overall width. Maybe at some point in the future I will have something cool done to them, but the budget just wont take it right now.

Nice! thats what i always tell the wife after buying parts for my truck im broke but happy lol...

I try not to tell the wife what I am spending on my projects... That way I don't have to sleep with one eye open! Safer that way!

lol....