First tap trying to get it on and it crushed like butter. The pivot kit came with a trailer hub grease cap that must have been made out of recycled pop cans.
The have 33"s on now and I set the spacing up with the larger tires in mind so hopefully everything fits when they are mounted up. These are the wheels I will use for the 37/12.5/16.5 Goodyear MTRs I am getting for this build. There is little if any movement in the tire when under way. I picked up lug nuts for the spare today and it is all very solid. I welded a section of DOM as a holder for the bolt when the gate is open I didn't like the idea of having a t-handle hanging out there all the time and I didnt want to have to make sure to have the correct socket either so this seemed like a happy compromise I took a few more pictures of the bumper today, I need to finish grinding this thing and get some paint on it.įor a closure I used a 5/8-18 bolt that I welded a socket to so that all I needed to remove it was a breaker bar. I will also build front and rear bumpers and some rock sliders for some more protection when offroad. My plans are to swap out the TTB for a D60 (already have it) with a shackle flip in the rear and reversal in front then put some military take off Goodyear MTRs on the extra set of 16.5 rims that came with the truck. This trip highlighted the need for some new tires Some silly teens drove their blazer off the edge of the road and we had to pull them up off the embankment.Īfter the rescue we got to do some actual exploringĪnother trip up the mountain in the snow. Pilchuck I got to use the 7.3L for what it was intended. So far so good and there are no more oil stains marking every place I park. After all that I still had the leaky dipstick o ring leaving puddles everywhere so I eventually got around to fixing that as well. In the end I replaced the hpop o rings, fuel lines, and fuel bowl drain. When I got it home I discovered the common oil in the valley and spent the first two weeks tracking down all the offending leaky parts. After that the other two guys just drove it and changed the oil.
The first owner replaced the rear diff cover with a mag-hytech, the clutch with a southbend hd and solid flywheel, and a AFE intake and 4" exhaust. It was a three owner truck with 228k miles that had spent some time towing a 5th wheel but much of the last several years as an occasional use vehicle. When I finally located one in eastern Washington last June I was all over it. I spent the better part of a year looking for a '96-'97 f250 short bed crew cab 7.3 power stroke with a zf5. I have been gleaning information from here for a long time and I finally have enough progress on my truck to start posting.
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