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[Lindenmooch]

Gonna be a LONG project....        But since I found some sweet treasure today, I guess I gotta make this thread.


Look what I found at the junkyard!   


One of the arms is bent and twisted up quite badly....but I still took it.  Maybe I can heat it up and straighten it out....or cut it apart and make a new one.  I'm hoping to find out who made them and try to buy a replacement for it.  Without doing any searching...my first guess is Superlift.  Look at the "S" cutout on the flat piece of metal.  Or maybe Skyjacker....?   

I also got the brackets to drop the I-beams, and I got the coil springs.  There was blocks under the leafs in the back...and I was going to grab em, but it was getting late, and I was hungry.       I can source those later.  And shocks too....I need shocks.   Is there anything I am forgetting?   Just to fix/replace that radius arm, buy lift blocks for rear, and a set of shocks.

What I mentioned, and what you see in the pics...only cost me 70 dollars.       Not bad, for most of the pieces of a lift kit that costs over 1500. 

[chase]

Not a bad deal for 70 bucks, glad the project is moving forward.

[Lindenmooch]

Well it isn't really moving anywhere....that was a sweet deal I just HAD to have, ya know?  I'll be broke for a while yet....MAYBE capitalizing on the occasional deal, but otherwise broke.

[Lindenmooch]

I was thinking about going back to the junkyard and grabbing the pitman arm from that wrecked truck I took the lift from.....but I fear it will be impossible to pry off.  How hard will it be to find a new one at a reasonable price?  I might go back and see if the rear lift blocks are still there anyway.  Even to get some long U-bolts for next to nothing is a good idea.  They're pretty pricey by themselves if you buy em new.

[Lindenmooch]

Sweet jesus!!!!  Is it spring yet??!?!!!   I need more money, so I can buy fiberglass....and DOM tube.....and ladder bars....and gears....and Deaver leafs.....and Fox shocks.....wow...this is going to be expensive.   How much can I get for a kidney?

[chase]

Haha I think a kidney fetches a pretty good price on the black market. You could probably just buy a completely done prerunner if you went that route, haha

Lookin forward to watching the build, so c'mon!   

[Lindenmooch]

Hey....can I mount all my drop brackets and stuff without adding any lift stuff, or changing my shocks?  How will it affect the suspension geometry to install the extended pitman arm, and I-beam drop brackets and nothing else?   Since I already have the stuff....I'd like to get it installed and out of my kitchen, haha.  And I want it to at least look like I am trying to make some progress on this project.  I'm itching to toy with it a little.   I could paint up those brackets and mount them....and try to straighten out that crooked radius arm.