My first carrier: some assembly required

[super dave]

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.

[super dave]

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.

[super dave]

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.

[super dave]

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 . After that was done was to install the bellows dust seals, Lucky I had them from the guy I had purchased the carrier from and a previous thread on how they were installed.

[super dave]

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

[super dave]

Now that that has been done it was time to install all of the road wheels. As in one of the past posts I went for the larger wheel bearings and had spacers and sleeves made to install them into the wheels and the measurements that I got were spot on and the wheels slid into place perfectly


I will leave for a brief while and go work on it and will post some more info tonight.

[kevin powles]

Hi, Nice Progress, well done.