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Taking what I learned from the last SAS build, I decided that I wanted to Straight axle swap the 12" green pathfinder. So far I picked up the axles, links, heims, and started to build the cradle. The end goal is to make it street-able, so I won't be cutting corners to save as much money as possible like I did on the last SAS. Hopefully will be picking up a set of coilovers and a set of air shocks tomorrow. Here are some pictures of the progress. 

 

Here's the front axle, out of a 00 F350

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Here's the rear axle, out of a 02 f350

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Here's the metal that will become the cradles sides and the motor mounts

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Here's the little plasma cutter I got on amazon for 190$+-. It cuts 1/4 pretty well I'd say. Only down side is that having a smaller compressor, I have to stop frequently and let it fill up.

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Drilling Holes for the 4 link

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This is what is inside the cradle sides before getting welded and trimmed up. 

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Here's the finished product before paint. Once the sides are on, Ill tie them together. 

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Here are the air shocks i picked up. 

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Cleaned the axles up a little

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Heims came in today

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Picked up a steering box, still have to adapt the PS line.. 

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Here is the design I'm thinking for the 4-link/coilover bracket

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20 hours ago, onespiritbrain said:

Wow that little plasma cutter is cutting that 1/4” plate?! That’s awesome

Everything is looking robust so far. What sort of articulation will you end up with? Those shocks look good and long.

if i remember, it's a lotus 3500. It cuts 1/4" no problem.

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Removing the subframe is probably the hardest part of the whole SAS process... Took a few hours just to remove!\

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Burned in the Rail reinforcements and the new rail mounted motor mounts. 

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Managed to get the motor off the cherry picker in one day. pretty good pace i think

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11 hours ago, Slartibartfast said:

That's quite the hook on your cherry picker! Looks like it's coming along.

LOL yes it is! it was maybe 3" too short to hold the motor in the center.. Adapt and overcome right haha!  Today i've spent the morning drilling the rail to mount the steering box. Looking back I should've drilled the reinforcements before welding them in... Such a pain to drill with limited space in there.. will post pictures later. 

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Got the steering box mounted up

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Heres what I have going on for the top mount for the air shocks

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Here is the nissan to jeep steering box link

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Ran out of wire before I could finish the link, so thats all for today 

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Dropped the gas tank to give me some space to weld on the rail

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Post grind on the rails

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Welded the cradle side onto the rail. Super hard to do with barely any space under the car...

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Heres where I sit now. I finished the steering and 3/4 of the cradle. 

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Still have to figure out how I am going to lift the car up another foot+ in order to fir the air shocks in there... I'll probably end up buying 2 ton pipe stands to hold it after its up. BUT idk how to get it up.. Ideas?

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Got the air shocks mounted

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Made a temporary track bar bracket so i can set the ride height later without the car tilting off to the side

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The plan for the new track bar bracket will be similar, but I want to tie it into both original bolts and have it go a little further down, and also further out towards the driver side

 

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Ended up ditching the original axle side track bar mount and making my own

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Threw together some temporary steering. Something to allow me to drive the car into the shed, letting me work on the rear of the car. 

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Got the rear axle removed

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Got the ford axle rolled in

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Started the rear 4 link

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got some sweet braided brake lines made

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found some used 37x13.5x22 tomorrow Mts. 

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Here are the 22x14 -76 rims I ordered. should be in by tomorrow

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Adapter the emergency brake to fit the sterling10.5 lines

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