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 Posted: Thu Nov 16th, 2017 09:08 pm
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Jimmyspy
Shadetree Mechanic


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 Ok, so we left off with coil overs and things being purchased. I got a good deal on the coil overs from a member over on FRF (brand new, never on a truck) and that got the ball rolling...  slowly. To be honest, I had everything sitting in the garage by February, but didn't "break ground" until late April. But, that's the life of a shade tree mechanic. The truck was also in desperate need of a new core support, so I figured as long as we were tearing some stuff apart, we might as well tear it all apart. 



Started off stripping most of the front clip off the truck.




These next few really show how bad the core support had gotten. The Ohio winters had not been kind








So here you can see that the passenger front body bolt is broken off. I hadnt touched it up until this point....    This truck has had an interesting life.





Old Core support removed









Old vs New






I had to order new body mounts from Tasca, which took FOREVER. So, I got impatient and moved on to the Coil over swap.



Here are the passenger side shock tower gussets and upper limit strap mount.



Lower limit strap mount. You may notice that it's very close to the sway bar mounting hole. There is enough room to sneak the end link in there, but I don't run the sway bar. 





Mocking stuff up.




Painting stuff

 


Passenger side assembled




Drivers side pretty much assembled.




It's a really tight fit up there. Ended up "clearancing" the UCA a little.




Broke a brake line



More assembly stuff





Painted some stuff













Body mounts had finally come in by this point.  Had to lift the body up a little to line things up



Core support in place



New body mounts





Front receiver back in




Bracket for the new grille lights (I decided to finally ditch the harbor freight lights and go with LEDs)




Front clip back on 





Back on the ground and off to tireman for an alignment. The bumper did go back on... eventually.







And that pretty much wraps up that round of work, and brings us up to mid may of this year.  We're almost caught up.... I promise.    haha 




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2002 XLT 4x4, 4.0l V6, Silver Frost Metalic, Superlifted and stuff