Oh that's nice.!!

Janice

34guy wrote:

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Not sure what I am going to xo with the wood

I am going fo paint the truck ded with black

Fenders.Entertaing a transparent red or black

Stain.Still have some good solvent based urathane

Left at the shop from my hardwood refinishing days

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 Joe,

You been hanging around fat finger Glenn too much he's wearing off on ya.  

Well Hannu

                I met Hannu on the forum here, and offered to extract a few broken bolts for him as my shop is a

little better equipped than his. I also learned at this time his garage has no heat. I offered him to work on his stuff

in my heated garage, so now since Dec he is over 3-4 night's a week and we have become friend's. It work's great for

both of us ,as some night's I am lazy and not going out ,Hannu call's and I am working out there as I as I should be.

Thank's Hannu

Joe, thank you!

People may think you have been lazy because you are not posting any new photos. I know you have been working hard on the truck and it looks great!

Btw, I went on Friday to that Mississauga Air Cha Spring Shope on Midway Blvd and bought me some U bolts and center bolts, good service and not too expensive. I put the front springs together and they look good now. Not so good story with the rear springs, one side okay but the other side has 6 out of 9 leafs broken...

Moving on to rear end

                   I am using a 1998 Toyota 4 runner rear end . I bought the complete rear frame section from a guy and removed

everything that I thought I may need including parking brake cables and handle . The whole assembly cost me 200.00

The rear end is 55 inches wide and same 6 bolt pattern as chev trucks . 34 chev axle is 55 inches wide

the gearing on this resr end  4.30-1 and is posi with 12 inch drum brakes. Pretty stout rear end as well ,

Great job on the axle pulling tool. You should post that on homemadetools.net

so I cut off all the unwanted brackets from the rear end and painted it and put it back together.

I then located under my frame set my pinion angle and off to the races.

   I had to fabricate 2 lower trailing arm mount's and the upper trailing arm mounts as well.

Once these were installed I cleaned and painted the inside of the frame rails.

   I then fabricated the boxing plates ,Painted the rear sides of them and tacked them in place.

I still have to mount the coilovers and sway bar. Yesterday I finished welding the boxing plates

and made the frame rail plates and mounted the steering box.

Hey Hemi

                   Yeah still want to do the adjustable arms

I made template of these arms so all is good

Hopefully in the next couple of weeks I will make

it down to the center of the universe .Want to get the neck

on my alumium gas tank relocated as well.

i think most would be frowning upon using toyota parts in a domestic rod but i have some buddies who rock crawl and they use the yoda diffs, you have a wide variety of gear ratios to choose from and lots of those have rear disc brakes as well.  you can also get an electric locker from a factory toyota that would fit that rear, so posi on demand.  where else would you get a modern rear axle thats narrow enough with 6 lug?  i think those diffs are quite strong as well