Project SVT

[RangerSVT]

Sweet piss...... how big are those tires?

They are not very big, just 47's...

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[RangerSVT]

glad its rolling....but I am VERY skeptical about running those tires on a dana 60.....

I didn't intend on running that big a tire, but I got a deal on these tires that I would have been really stupid to pass on them ($100 per tire ) so phase 3 will start near the end of this summer in the form of a new frame and Beefier axles. This way i can still wheel it while I build the new axles and suspension. I got a different idea altogether for the suspension setup. It will be linked, but that's the only part that will be similar. Stay tuned

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[Kage]

it's about time it got back out....even if not under it's own power....

l8r, John

x2! It's nice that to see it off of the Jack Stands!

 

[RangerSVT]

Well, wanted to do some of the little things to get SVT closer to being done, and nothing was going right today. I had started filling the power steering reservoir when it was still in the shop, and it was already leaking. Turns out one of the return line fittings on the tank was only finger tight. I forgot I only put the fitting on there hand tight so i wouldn't lose it, and completely forgot that i need a 45* fitting on it. Looked all over the shop and I don't have one. So i lifted the front up, pulled the tires off to do the front brakes, since I got new hardlines and pads. Calipers wouldn't fit on with the new pads, so i go to compress the calipers and nothing, they didn't budge. Great, both calipers locked up. So i look into running the brake lines, turns out I couldn't do that either as i can't find any of the retaining brackets. Something else added to the need to get list. So while I had the tires off I filled up my shocks more since when i adjusted the ride height before a jack stand was still under the frame. So now its sitting at about 9.5 inches of up travel, and 6.5 inches of down travel. I'm going to leave it like this until I build my front bumper, since that will add some weight to it. After that I can set my ride height. I lifted the rear temporarily just to see how it would look. Plans are to lift the rear about 3-4 more inches, probably trim a couple more inches of fender out back. Here is what it looks like as of today..

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[Kyle M.]

What psi are the shocks at?

 

[Sasquatch_Ryda]

Looks like muh fuggin robocop!

 

[RangerSVT]

Kyle, I didn't check the last time I filled them, but they are close to 400-450. My tank was running low on the last fill (3rd time) so i just filled them up just before the 500 max rating, but my shocks were only at about 13" droop. I did that as a safety just in case I went over 500 during filling. I can always let them out to set ride height, but it would be a little hard to fill em without any N2...

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[Sasquatch_Ryda]

Mine are around 225 right now, which is about 4" of shock shaft showing at ride height.

 

[RangerSVT]

That's what i was gonna set mine at, was about 3-4" up travel. I still got to fab my front bumper, as well as mount a winch up front, after that i can set my height. As it sits right now, the bottom of my hood is at 6'. Yeah, robocop ain't got $h!t on SVT

 

[disciplerocks]

Lol @ robocop

 

[wahlstrom1]

Das a HUGE Biotch! My truck sits 5' to the cowl by the wipers on 42's....

 

[RangerSVT]

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In this pic I have about 1.5-2" of up travel, so another inch to inch and a half is where it will finally sit...

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[RangerSVT]

Well, I finally got some work done on the doubler. Yesterday I got my last piece in that I had to get machined. My adapter pipe was about 7 thousandths too big, so I had it turned down. Come to find out, the pipe was out of round, it was 3.990 on one side, 4.002 on the other. My dana 20 housing is 3.998, so I had it turned down to trueness, which was almost 3.990...

Here is the adapter bolted to the housing with the pipe inserted...

Tacked in place....

I made several welds, switching sides so it wouldn't warp on me..

All burned on....

This shows how close the reduction box is to the rear case...

Here is the plate that bolts to the reduction box, all trimmed out...

Here's the plate mocked up in place where it needs to be placed. I won't have the adjustment that I thought I would as far as clocking the rear case...

Tacked in place...

I made some gussets to help support the pipe to the plate, since there is nothing else holding the two together. I also did partial welds in opposite sides, again, so not to warp the materials...

Finished with all sides and gussets welded...

Here is the space I have between the reduction box and the rear case. I originally intended to have 3/4" between them, but I stepped it up to a full 1". The rear case will have studs installed and will attach to the doubler with nuts rather than having bolts going into the rear case...

Here is the bolt going into the reduction case and its bottomed out. Looks like I will need to cut the bolts about 1/4" shorter...

Here the mainshaft is installed in the reduction box. You can see by the length that I will be able to have a one piece shaft instead of an intermediate or sector shaft. This is the main reason why I chose to use this case. Where I need to have it resplined the shaft is solid, so I don't have to worry about running into a hollow core...

This shows the mainshaft is very close to being centered...

Unfortunately the battery in my drill died while drilling the holes in the reduction box plate and thats where it ended today. I started working on my Sport Trac's wiring after that. Tomorrow I will finish the holes, paint the adapter and get it mounted to SVT's trans so I can get my measurements for my driveshafts. I have a few sets of driveshafts so hopefully I can have one that will fit, if not, I'll cut one up to the length I need it, then it will move under its own power again

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[Kage]

That's coming together nicely!

 

[RangerSVT]

Well, I got most of it done yesterday. I was able to tap the holes a little further so I didn't have to cut the bolts....

Here is the doubler assembled. I don't have the studs yet, but I was able to get one short bolt in just to hold it together for the pics..

Here's how it will sit when mounted in the truck. I'm thinking the angle is pretty good where its at, but I'll see once its in the truck..

Here's the length from mounting surface to center of driveshaft U joint, under 20"...

Here is the shift fork pin that I machined into the adapter plate...

What's not shown is the height of the pipe coming into the reduction box, its too tall and won't allow the reduction box to shift into low gear. I did some measuring and I need to get it down to under 5/8", so I cut it down to about 1/2", and I need to do some machining where I cut it down. Then I can do one more test fit to make sure the reduction box shifts into low range...

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