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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Switching out the poor quality nuts, with the help of a friend.

The nuts that hold the rear drive shafts in place was some really poor quality, you can read about it here.

Well I got some new one with much better quality. Our dear friend wanted to help me at the best of her abillity.

After some back and forth with wrong delivery of the rear wheel cylinders, the correct ones have finally arrived and it is now time for some painting before installation.

Rear brake hoses instead of brake lines??

I am trying to keep the apperence of the rear axle as clean as possible as this truck will have stock suspension and tires, so the rear axle will be visible from the rear. So the thaught struck me to use hoses between the stock rear single hose bracket and the cylinder and make a copy of the bracket on the opposite side. However when I took the front brake hose to the rear, there was already a hole in the frame rail similar to the hole for the front brake hose, so I just had to put everything together with the stock front brake hose. Like it was meant to be like this from the begining. Then my thaughts was to route the hard brake lines inside the frame to both sides.

I eye balled the hose with a loose wheel cylinder and everything seemed to fit, almost do good to be true.

I was planing on reusing the front wheel cylinders that was there when I took it appart. I cleaned them, lubricated them and put them together in a plastic bag, BUT now 1.5 year later when i took it out and planed to paint it there was some big rust stains on the inside, not pretty at all. So I decided to go fo a set of four new ones.