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Thank you Dave. That sketch will really help out. What material did you make yours out of? Spring Steel?
Stephen DeMocko |
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I made it out of some 1 1/4" strapping material I had.
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Well its been a long time since I have updated this thread as Life took a detour on working on the carrier this last few years but not forgotten. I only managed to work on it briefly last year but I am back on track and have found the time to go full steam ahead on it
![]() So I guess where I left off I had done a lot of fab and painting of the parts of a good portion of the carrier and last year I worked on the exhaust system. I went with a Walker muffler 17864 from NAPA as it was the best I could find that was close to the original one and had a length of 17" in the body. I made the system I believe like the original setup. |
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Now to play the mad minute in catching up on what I have been accomplishing the last few months
![]() Now that the exhaust system is done and in I can install the differential YAY. |
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Now the diff was in I went through the brake system and cleaned an lubed the actuators, The brake shoes had a lot of life left in them so just a cleaning and painting was required
![]() Cleaned, Repacked the wheel bearings and installed new seals and on went the brake drums. Moving forwards. I had been looking for a while for the dust seal the went on the brake actuator rod and found that a dodge master cylinder boot from the M37/WC worked great. |
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Now that was done onto the suspension, Wah Hoo. First was to install the cross shaft, brackets and rollers. As a side note since I had not stripped the carrier down I installed the shaft first and then went to install the rollers to find out I had to pull the shaft out to get the rollers into place as they would not slip in with the flat part of shaft in place
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Now that was accomplished it was time to get on the assembly of the suspension. I opted to bolt the main parts on and then install the springs after as it would be to heavy to install a complete component. I stripped the system a few years ago with a home built spring compressor at the time but really did not like it and considered making one from the Australian designed one but I made up one using a M113 track jack and it has worked flawless
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