3/12/07
My dad worked on it all day. He got the rear 3rd installed, rear axle shafts installed, rear brake line installed, and most of the E-brake setup.
He also got the front driver hub together and on the truck. He had it in roller status when I got home from work. We started to work on the driver side front brake caliper and just my luck, knuckle is striped where brake caliper mounts to knuckle. So we hunt around for parts to tap the knuckle to the next larger size bolt and we still didn't get that right. We bought too small of a drill and tap. Just my luck
The wheelbase right now is 109 inches, 6 inches longer than stock. I was shooting for 107 but I'll take the 109 anyday
We called it a night. But during the day, I had been reading this thread (
http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=31839.0) and saw that Loki and Lagen Wagon was having trouble with his dual case adapter popping out of gear. It dawned on me, and later in the night, I went out and tried to shift the cases around and the rear case is popping out of gear. DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Like Terry said, the little things are going to make or break me going to Moab.
I am glad that I caught the problem now rather than next week when it would have been too late to do anything about it.
Here's what it looked like today!
