So on Tuesday night my rear passenger bag took a crap on me. Got it towed blah blah... Time for the LRD 6LINK On with the pics. This is my daily so I won't be able to paint my frame just yet
How it sat after the passenger bag took a crap on me.
Then this happened today after i put it up on stands. I forgot to jack up the axle and support it. Whoops LOL
Got the taillights out and bed loosened up today also. Not sure who cut the ground on the tails and then tightened a new one to the bed, but i could use a new harness if anyone has one.
Any more pics of the rear setup? I've been looking and planning out how to do a behind and under setup similar to that, right under the frame rail. Curious about tire clearance mostly. Truck's looking good though!
This is a bolt on 2 link that i am taking off. Both bags are destroyed of course. But it will be for sale. It definitely needs new bushings for the link bars. It rides good IMO but i just wanted a 6 link. hopefully more pics tomorrow. I loosened all my bed bolts, disconnected all my airline and gauges. Now i need the neighbor to come over and help remove the bed.
So my neighbor didn't show up to help get my bed off and I have to wait until tomorrow. I need a taillight wiring harness if anyone has one. Here is the plug style.
The Harness was cut and grounded to the tailgate cable. You can see where it was tapped into at on the brown wire.
And the high stop only wire was bare and just hanging there with strands of wire sticking out instead of being tucked away nicely.
Looks like you have one of the old Air Lift 3-link kits. Not a terrible kit but you'll probably like the geometry of the LRD kit better. Planning on notching it so it will lay out while you're at it?
I don't plan to notch it yet. I need to get it out of my in-laws garage. I got more done today. Took 2 f**kin hours to get the gas tank cross member off.
As it sits right now with nothing really tightened up. I have a pinion of 5*. Is that ok? The drive line doesn't have any extreme angles.
I also haven't set the ride height yet. But this is pretty close to my ride height. Or should I temporarily air up the back to make it easier setting the pinion angle.
That color on the new link setup is intense. I love it.
But yeah once I saw the old link with the bed off I was like hey that's not a 2 link that's 3 link with a panhard. It may not be the fanciest setup out there but it's definitely not bad.
So I got everything together and I'm not getting as much lift as I expected. And I can't really turn the bars out much more. At least I think I can't. I guess I'll see tomorrow for sure since the bed is back on. I need to finish up the wiring again. Any suggestions are appreciated.
So here is what my bags in the rear look like aired all the way up. Shocks are maxing out. I still have the entire spare tire cross member out back and the frame is tweaking just a little. I feel i should be getting more lift and that the shocks shouldn't be maxed out so easily.
Here is what the dog bones look like when aired up all the way.
Aired up.
back bags aired out.
All aired out. I'll get better pics in daylight. I'm about an 1-1 and 1/2 inches from laying out without a notch. And I have a mini notch to put in still.
I was thinking I might need to adjust my lower bars out more maybe. Can someone like sunny or tom from lrd chime in please. I still have not taken it out to drive yet.
Yeah my pinion is downward a little. How would I fix this? Adjust the lower bars in and the uppers out some more. I'm sure I could do this with the bed on just put a couple of stands under the truck to hold it up. It was a pita to get the lowers in in the first place.
There is only about an inch of threading exposed on the lower bars and a little more than an inch on the uppers. My pinion is at about 4 degrees. And nothing seems to be binding.