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truk lewks gewd morgan
 
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For some reason, I think your truck looks better with the regular tail gate on it.
 
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well that was a few hours of hot as hell work. made away with 2 mustang calipers, flange brackets, and anti-moan brackets. one of the calipers seems frozen but ill know more when i get them on a bench. anybody know where i can get a caliper rebuild kit of some sort?
 
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well that was a few hours of hot as hell work. made away with 2 mustang calipers, flange brackets, and anti-moan brackets. one of the calipers seems frozen but ill know more when i get them on a bench. anybody know where i can get a caliper rebuild kit of some sort?
Try getting some White Lithium Grease for the calipers. Plus Penetrating oil.
 
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man your truck is sick, so glad shes stayin with ya!!
 
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found time to get this on today..




it did require some trimming to clear the ring gear/abs ring whatever made contact first.
 
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thats a nice chunk of hardware morgan
 
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well i scored another 8.8 for my mock up. 3.73s with limited slip. gonna be getting rid of it cheap in case anyone wants it.


also got my GT calipers
 
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3.73s with 33's?
 
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i dont think hes putting it in the truck, but i have no idea why its needed
 
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Lovin' the truck Mr. Morgan, Keep it up.
 
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yes mines already geared with a limited slip. this is just for mock up of the disk brakes so im not left waiting on any parts i might need. when its ready i can just swap it all over.
 
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seems like alot more work but this way i can put it on a bench and go to work. making sure everything is good to go.

new parts on the way as of this morning..

uniballs
bushings
steel braided brake lines
 
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Werent you selling the truck??
 
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its always for sale for the right price...
 
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lol....just dont sell it, you put too much into it man
 
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Dont sell it MORGAN, 01 and Pedro have the hottest trucks on RF IMO
 
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got some amber covers for the floods, not sure if i like them or not..


new uniballs and bushings showed up, thank you BTF for getting these to me on short notice. steel braided brake lines also, from a member on here.


and an updated pic :D
 
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that for the burg stuff or the btf arm?
 
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Paint your fenders and stx grill it'll look better
 
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those are for the btf uppers. sold all the camburg stuff..
 
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replaced the uniballs, upper arm bushings, and front brake lines today. uniballs were super tough to get out. sam at 3B racing helped me out with his press since he was around the shop anyway. while the truck was pissing me off the CJ got some dd attention which i loved as usual. one of the uniballs required some heat to be pressed out. this melted the misalignments, not a great thing to have happen on a saturday afternoon when your truck needs to get you to work on monday morning. a run up to ruffstuff saved the day, but i should have bought 2! thought only one misalignment had mushroomed but turns out the bottom one started to collapse on the inside as well. my dad and i reamed it out to make it work till it can be replaced hopefully this week. after being heated up and drilled out itll break eventually. replaced the front lines with steel braided ones.

few pics, camera was dead so crappy cell pics is all i took lol.










pep boys said they couldnt align my truck due to their alignment guy not coming in, then some toothess dude down the street told me to come back on moday, f that, so firestone was having a sale. $150 for lifetime alignments on one vehicle. i figured that the second time i need one it will pay for itself, so twas worth it.
 
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love those lifetime alignments deal. need to find one, i usually need the alignment adjusted every 4 months.
 
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same here, which made it so easy to say yes to that deal haha
 
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Every few months?! That sucks. I've done an alignment 3 times in the 8.5 years I've owned the truck
 


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