PlumCrazy's Beater DD 4x4 Build

[Shran]

At least the tops of the mounts are rusted off and not the sides! The 93 I've been working on has big holes in the sides of the rear mounts and the core support mounts, and the core support itself, is basically just big flaky rust chunks now. Nothing is solid. The gas tank straps rusted in half and it's sitting on the skid plate now...and I can break off pieces of the skid plate by hand. It's sadly not the worst I've seen but it's pretty bad.

So what I'm getting at, is yours looks pretty good

 

[PlumCrazy]

At least the tops of the mounts are rusted off and not the sides! The 93 I've been working on has big holes in the sides of the rear mounts and the core support mounts, and the core support itself, is basically just big flaky rust chunks now. Nothing is solid. The gas tank straps rusted in half and it's sitting on the skid plate now...and I can break off pieces of the skid plate by hand. It's sadly not the worst I've seen but it's pretty bad.

So what I'm getting at, is yours looks pretty good

If I didn't have some sentimental attachment to this POS it would have been in death row for parts with the rest of them. I have parted out better lol

 

[PlumCrazy]

Gonna run the diff through the parts washer tomorrow, but got fresh joints in the shafts.

They were living on borrowed time from the looks of it. Quiet and smooth though.

 

[Shran]

Those needle bearings are still good, just clean the dirt out and repack them. They haven't turned to dust yet so that's how you know they're good.

 

[PlumCrazy]

Those needle bearings are still good, just clean the dirt out and repack them. They haven't turned to dust yet so that's how you know they're good.

If I didn't cut the joints apart to remove them from the stub shaft I would have considered it lol

 

[PlumCrazy]

Diff cleaned up really nice with a combination of ultrasonic and parts washer.

Reassembled the front end with fresh hubs and wheel joints without any issues.

Moved onto body mounts...

Removed the rotten mounts (some were worse than I had even expected
)

Had to modify the poly mounts a little. The rears were 1/4" too tall and all needed a chamfer on the ID to clear the radius of the factory inner sleeve.

Core support mounts got a grab bag of hardware. I used 2.3 head bolts and some body mount upper washers to reassemble with the poly mounts.

All mating surfaces and most hardware were stripped down and coated with cold galvanize paint before reassembly. Everything will a get afresh coating of Fluid Film soon.