johann_peralta
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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.
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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?
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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
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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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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
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Finished the axle side 4-link/air shock brackets and started the car end brackets. cut out the frame reinforcement plates too
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if i remember, it's a lotus 3500. It cuts 1/4" no problem.
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Here is the beginning of the 4-link/coilover brackets. still need to clean, drill, and weld them
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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
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I'd like to get it up another foot or so. Enough to sit completely above 40s.
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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 Here's the rear axle, out of a 02 f350 Here's the metal that will become the cradles sides and the motor mounts 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. Drilling Holes for the 4 link This is what is inside the cradle sides before getting welded and trimmed up. Here's the finished product before paint. Once the sides are on, Ill tie them together.
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I have no idea. I'm just doing one thing at a time for now. I need to get back under it and finish welding all the spots I couldn't reach before while it was in the shed, and finish the small things first
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Finally got it moving on its own power.. Pretty excited!
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Thank you. I'm no pro or have I ever done something like this before. It's a learning experience for sure.
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I originally added one piece in and then realized I forgot to keep the u joints in phase, so it was cut and put back together in phase.
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sleeved and extended the driveshaft about 3.5"
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maybe these will work..
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dang.. it's weird because I can see them all. I haven't built the driveshaft yet, but I'm confident it won't bind. The front will more than likely get a CV joint by the axle and a cardan joint at the tcase.
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https://cdn1.imggmi.com/uploads/2019/6/10/1d3ad581e99065f9783a7a8d5cc1a959-full.jpg https://cdn1.imggmi.com/uploads/2019/6/10/8e7a0574374980022ff8daa0dfa84eca-full.jpg https://cdn1.imggmi.com/uploads/2019/6/10/8b62acef25ff0cd20e282a12847ebddc-full.jpg https://cdn1.imggmi.com/uploads/2019/6/10/c315a939290a129a069ee7ab8e938bf8-full.jpg Hopefully these work... What site do you use to make pics into a URL?
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slowly coming together.. put the tires on and rolled it around a little here is a side by side to 12" lift on the green r50 (35s). white is on 31s in the front here. still have lots to do here and there..
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Ended up going with spacers and longer coils. Maybe down the road ill switch it up. Got it back on the ground, but still lots to do: lower trailing arms, extend driveshaft, panhard bracket, brake line and a bunch of small things here and there. Rear bumpers is going soon after, going to make a rear bumper to add the carrier to.
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In central Florida I've seen 3. One the first time I saw one I thought it was custom made.
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Here is what I spent this afternoon doing. I mocked up the 3/16" brackets for the lower trailing arms. The bolts are in temporarily and they are just there to hold the bracket in position while I welded some of it in. Unfortunately, In the shed I'm working in, there is literally less than a foot on the side of the car, and it's not ideal to do work like that. These brackets are not done, nor fully installed. The plan is to box the brackets in, and once the rear end is done I can push the car out of the shed. Once out, I can get better access to the brackets and weld them in fully. Also, For anyone interested in installing longer trailing arms, the uppers from a jeep JK fit as extended uppers on the Pathfinder. The lowers, not so much...
