Front 60 Install Begins!

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fdezone - Thank you! I will definitely keep the pics coming as it goes back together. We got all of the brackets first bead welded last night and plan on going over it at least one more time if not twice. After that it'll all get painted and go back together.

Carl - Thanks for the pic. It does look like we have very similar set-ups. It wouldn't move while it was all tacked, but I didn't give a lot of pressure either for fear it would break the tacks and I'd be taking a step backwards. How are your lowers positioned? My LCA are a solid mount - bolt/bushing at the frame, not a heim. Plus they are spaced way out on the axle so I hope that will prevent any side to side movement, but the geometry confuses the heck out of me. I can't take any credit for the massive LCA's - Jack Covert did those! 744x4 and I have done the rest though.

This set-up is also designed to run the coilover from the LCA instead of the axle - I've seen it done on other rigs but still seems like a different concept to me. Again, it's another one of those geometry things I don't even want to start to figure out.

We've also moved the rear axle back 10.5" from the stock position. The white line through the oblong hole in the top of the frame is the stock axle center line. If we had not moved it at all, the frame brackets would overlap the CAGE arm brackets.