[1 ton SAS]

Heres the upper mount for the rear airshocks

 

[1 ton SAS]

15 hours ago, Slartibartfast said:

You're gonna have to take your fence down to get that out of there! Holy crap that thing is wide.

Luckily it's a gate door 

[1 ton SAS]

13 hours ago, KiwiTerrano said:

At least it's unlikely to rollover, given how tall it is! Looking good. How much up travel are you planning on? Looks like a bit of guard chopping might be in order

 

If I recall my measurements, the distance from mount to mount for the air shocks is around 30". The 16"  air shocks I bought are 23" compressed and 39 extended. In theory that means 7 up and 9" down. The real question is will the suspension really cycle that much.. 

[1 ton SAS]

Got them mounted and balanced. 

 

Here are some pics with them temporarily mounted.

 

[1 ton SAS]

rims came in today 

 

Just ordered the air shocks for the rear also. Fox 2.5 16"

[1 ton SAS]

got some sweet braided brake lines made

 

found some used 37x13.5x22 tomorrow Mts. 

 

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

 

Adapter the emergency brake to fit the sterling10.5 lines

 

 

 

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Sounds like a good time. when and how many days would it last?

[1 ton SAS]

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

 

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. 

 

Got the rear axle removed

 

Got the ford axle rolled in

 

Started the rear 4 link

 

[1 ton SAS]

Heres the new track bar bracket I made. Ties into the factory subframe bolt 

 

Made an adapter to make the factory F-350 sway bar fit on the rear subframe mount holes.

 

 

[1 ton SAS]

Cleaned up the rear axle and got all the brackets off of it

 

Got the Sterling 10.5 to Nissan adapter line made

[1 ton SAS]

Thanks for sharing the idea. I like it!

[1 ton SAS]

Got the air shocks mounted

 

 

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

 

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

 

[1 ton SAS]

Got the 4-link brackets burned in and mocked up the shocks

 

Cleaned up the 4 links 

 

[1 ton SAS]

Almost forgot, brake lines and spacers came in today also

[1 ton SAS]

ended up buying 2-ton pipe stands.

 

Rolled the axle axle and cleaned up the housing. Hopefully I can tack the brackets in tomorrow and mock the 4 link and shocks up. 

 

[1 ton SAS]

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

 

Post grind on the rails

 

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

 

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

 

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?

[1 ton SAS]

Got the steering box mounted up

 

 

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

 

Here is the nissan to jeep steering box link

 

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

[1 ton SAS]

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. 

[1 ton SAS]

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

 

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

 

 

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

[1 ton SAS]

Finished the axle side 4-link/air shock brackets and started the car end brackets. 

 

 

 

cut out the frame reinforcement plates too

[1 ton SAS]

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.

[1 ton SAS]

Here is the beginning of the 4-link/coilover brackets. still need to clean, drill, and weld them

 

 

 

[1 ton SAS]

Here are the air shocks i picked up. 

 

Cleaned the axles up a little

 

Heims came in today

 

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

 

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

[1 ton SAS]

On 9/24/2019 at 3:10 PM, onespiritbrain said:

So your going to shoot for keeping it at 12”?

I'd like to get it up another foot or so. Enough to sit completely above 40s.