RamCharger.net

Fudge.... I had an airbag failure.  I came out of the hardware store and saw an air line hanging down. The elbow fitting on top of the bag had come apart.  On closer inspection at home, the 2 bolts on top of the airbag had pulled the female end out of the top of the airbag.
I only used 50lbs with the boulders.

Thinking back,  I did remove the spacers I originally used since it seemed real bouncy.   Thought I was hitting the internal rebound bumper. Without the spacer, maybe the gap is too wide.  Any ideas??

So are the 2 batteries going in the winch bumper?  Thats cool !!

Picked up some boulders. Air bags helped a lot and actually rode better with the load.  First pic is fully loaded. Remember the load of gravel last summer. What a big difference!

Saw you guys on FB. Looks like fun. I went to Disneyland in California many moons ago. It was a blast. 

https://sanmarcos.craigslist.org/cto/6028628239.html

Cable spool table

So bleeder screw success! Oreillys had to order them 1/4"x28.  Weird because their books were showing it as 5/16" x24.  Needless to say that it took 2 trips but it came in 2 hours later.

No problem, hope you get yours running realsoon.

So as Tony from RCC would say, Murphy came to visit me.

I recently swapped out my 8-1/4 rear for a 9-1/4.  I kept having a bit of spongy brake pedal that I couldn't seem to get rid of using my handy dandy self bleeder tool.  So I had the wife help me out to bleed the brakes. Going for a second try at them when snap goes the bleeder screw.  Of course, it didn't have enough thread to grab it, so off with the wheel and drum.  Then remove the return springs to sneak the wheel cylinders out.  So put it on a vise and after a bit of fussing with it a T10 torx bit saved the day.  I pounded it in and was able to back it out.  Now the bleeder screw got angry and doesn't want to give me back my Torx bit. Anyways, I found an oddball wheel cylinder that I had laying around and it had the bleeder screw I need.  I am real worried that the other matching wheel cylinder has a cheapo bleeder screw too.  I suspect that this one may have been cracked and was leaking air into the line. Dunno for sure but bleeder screws are only a couple of bucks for piece of mind unless you go to my NAPA.  Bleeder screws there are like fairy dust as is most Dodge parts but that's another story.  So I get the wheel cylinder back in and I go to put the return springs back on and snap, I break a freaking spring.  Good thing I took a page outta Noah's Dodge Whisperer handbook and keep all my spare and extra parts from all the brake work I've done lately.  So back in business but something is binding and not allowing me to get the shoes to close up on the anchor pin for the return springs.  WTH is going on here.  So it looks like the parking brake lever has tension on it and preventing the shoes from closing in.  I loosened the parking brake cable but still nothing. Then, I noticed that somehow the parking brake lever is wedged inside the brake shoe frame.  This is beyond nuts so I break it loose and take all tension off the parking brake cables and walaa....success.  But I did notice that cable does not have play like the other side where you can pull it and it returns like its spring loaded.  It is a fairly new cable.  Looks like I'll be playing with this in the daylight tomorrow again.

A couple of things always seem to come up on a motor swap.

1) Double check that you are on TDC

2) Double check your firing order

Good Luck

Bubba Eric's Skrimps

So is the gin pole gonna be a giant stinger?

Wait a gosh darn minute.... Is that Scottie in the back ground?

That's looks very cool and an ext cab to boot!

Nice dog dishes.....are you keeping them? Lol

 I'm sure it has a purpose at an expensive lease but man is that ugly.

I was looking at the Van conversion websites and it looks like they put a 4x4 frame under the van. My understanding about vans is that there is no frame. Wonder how hard it is to put a van body on a frame?