We started assembling
our rear part of the frame with our differential. We took the
rear end that Gears & Rears
built for us and cut off all the un used tabs on it. We then
sanded it down and gave it several coats of
Duplicolor semi gloss
epoxy chassis paint to make it durable. We then got a
TransDapt rear end cover,
coated it with the same Duplicolor epoxy paint and then polished the fins. While we
had the cover off we drilled and tapped a pipe fitting for easy
filling of the rear end with our
Royal Purple diff
fluid. We then attached the diff cover with
ARP bolts from
Totally Stainless
and gaskets from Felpro.
We then got our frame back from
Langley U-Blast and
took it over to Hi-Pro
Coatings to be powdercoated in Cardinal Red to match our Baer brake calipers. They took
the main crossmember off the main frame so that it could be
cleaned and coated better.
Once we got the frame
back we started to assembly our suspension components from
Ridetech. Some of the
parts got scratched etc during mock up so we scuffed them all up
and gave them a coat of Duplicolor epoxy paint as well so they all had the same
satin black finish. All of the suspension parts were fastened
with products from Totally Stainless and
ARP and the bushings were from
Energy Suspension.
Once all the suspension components were mounted we started
plumbing the frame with our brake lines from
LMC Truck, our airlines
and Fuel lines from
Aeroquip. All of the lines were secured using clamps from
Made4You products.
We used brake line fittings and flexible lines from Speedway
Motors and Baer. All of our
airlines were plumbed with bulkhead fittings through the truck
to make for a much cleaner installation instead of having them
run through grommet or over frame rails. We mounted our
Moroso catch can topped with
a K&N Filter
so that our rear end had something to breath into. Once
everything was mounted we then fit our
Sir Michaels hidden
hitch onto the frame using the supplied grade 8 hardware.
We then took our custom
made fuel tank from Boyd
Welding and mounted it between the frame rails. When we
designed the tank, we changed the way that our
shocks were mounted so that we could
remove them easily with the tank in place. For this we used some
streetrod shock mounts that we got from Speedway Motors.
Once this was in we mounted our
Professional
Products inline fuel filter and fuel pump along with our LS
inline fuel filter/regulator and LS fuel fittings that we got
from Speedway Motors
and plumbed it all with fuel line and fittings from
Aeroquip. The last thing to be done was mount our
Pypes Performance Exhaust
system. It was literally a bolt in system even with our LS
motor, we simply welded the supplied collector to our LS
collector and we had a complete system
With all of that
wrapped up we put mounted our
tires onto our Rocket Racing 20" Chrome Booster wheels.