Ok pix are in order. A buddy of mine and i drove 1.5 hours 1 way to get to where the axle was. I agreed to $300 for it but was not able to go look at it prior, Took about 45 mins to pull it, put the leafs back in place and set the xploders leafs down on a couple of flat cinder block pavers. This way the truck wont fall on anybody. Anyhoo. They said the truck didnt have brakes as well. The rotors are completely ground down paper thin since theres no meat on the pads. Kinda ticks me on the price, because now i gotta shell out for rotors. Yet the rotors turn freely and the calipers arent locked down on the rotors. This tells me the calipers are probably fine, and somebody had probably been just driving it that way for a loooong time. I will need to get 2 rotors, and pads. Rear is a 3L73. I got a lot of questions.
For starters it looks like it has internal shoe brakes for park/emergency brake. I took the cables along with the rear, however anybody have pix of how they adapted their mopar parking brake cables to work?
I grabbed the driveshaft. It was a 4wd model so it has the u joint adaptor on both ends. I will be pulling the u joint adaptors and **** canning the driveshaft I will be keeping the 1 extra as a spare.
What do you all do about the ABS sensor in the pumpkin? Do you just leave it to plug the hole? Or does somebody make a plug for that.
Anybody use the sway bar and track arms from these. I grabbed it all. it can always go in the scrap pile too.
Also the mount brackets and perches all over the axle. Do y'all just cut them all off, and grind the welds flat then start from there? I'm thinking that would be the easiest way.
I am assuming there will be no way to fit this with a pinion snubber either. Sooo whats the deal on that a set of slapper bars? Caltracs?
I am going to get a set of new shock plates. Everythings listed for 3" tube. Do you just waller out 1/8 on each hole to make it fit the xploder 3.25" tube.
Perches. I have a set of mopar performance weld ons for 3" tube. Can these be used or do i need to find a set for the bigger 8.8 tube?
Finally, this is one heavy ******.
Yes lots of questions. I got this thing now i want to use it.
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