Pissnoma

[Kellyex1450]

I have an astrovan gear box if that helps, Kelly. Not sure where you are trying to get the pitman arm ti end up

I ended up getting a front steer Astrovan box. I was under the impression that there were only a few sector shaft spline variants, but there are more than I thought, from what I can tell the Astrovan box I have is a 1 1/8" and the pitman arms Rouse had were either from a manual box (to small) or for the bigger 1 1/4" sector shaft. I cut up the original Sonoma pitman arm pulling the OE steering and it had an integrated balljoint which I didn't want. I now know more about sector shafts sizes than ever before, my little knowledge is there are at least 3 common sector shaft sizes with 2 different master spines variants. I wish I could find a legend on sector shafts sizes, IE what OEMs used different sizes over various models/years. my background is more with racecar stuff which I find a lot easier to understand as it transcends years and manufactures. I got my fingers crossed that the wagoneer pitman arm that I ordered will arrive in a few days and will work as the internet said it would.

 

[Kellyex1450]

Well, I hit another delay, while doing the front SYE conversion on the factory NP233c transfer case that I was doing to able to use a standard yoke and put the slip where it belongs, I found a bunch of debris in the TC filter. It appears from what I can tell that comes in the rebuild kits, the thrust washers and shift sliders disintegrated. Luckily most all the debris is non magnetic but I didn't have confidence to slap everything back together without a rebuild. Since im now doing a rebuild i also ordered some upgrades. I ordered a upgraded chain and sprockets, and 6 gear planetary all out of a Dodge Durango. Basically the chain and sprocket upgrades increase the width from 1" to 1.25" and the planetary goes from 3 to 6 gears. I had a xJ with a np231 that slipped a chain so i was interested in making this TC stronger, just didn't think it would happen right now.There is so much info for these redneck swaps on the internet now it's awesome!

 

[Ryan]

My goodness… it’s glorious!

 

[Kellyex1450]

Im having a weird issue with the wide chain upgrade on the np233. Basically the synchro ring on the wide sprocket on the main shaft doesn't sit as far down as compared to the original sprocket. This is causing the stack height to be slightly raised like 1/16" and is preventing the snap ring from fitting. I've tried researching this and haven't found much other than I may be able to remove the synchro all together? If anyone knows about these transfer cases let me know, the np233 is basically a np231, super common in jeeps, dodge and GM.

 

[Kellyex1450]

So i did some redneck research and apparently when the synchro ring doesn't fit when doing this swap you just throw it away. I'm not used to just tossing out pieces of a mechanical device to get it to work, But when building a redneck, rock donkey, do as a redneck. So i threw it away.

 

[Kellyex1450]

Steering is mocked up. I went redneck on that also and did the finest chevy one ton stuff instead of racecar rod ends.

 

[Kellyex1450]

Making slow progress

 

[Turboyota]

 

[Kellyex1450]

More progress, beautiful shock mounts courtesy of of TrdBro.

 

[Kellyex1450]

Got 2 more of theseamerican made Ultra 5051 wheels for 60$. I now have a total of 6. I always liked these wheels but rarely see people run them, not sure why.

 

[Baconcreekmetal]

I've always liked those wheels.

 

[the bodj]

They're basically 5 spoke Robbys lol

 

[85Yota]

I got 4 like that for sale too. Perfect 31x15s on them

 

[Kellyex1450]

Ultra made the original Robby wheels and according to to a old RDC thread they loosely modeled them off these Ultra 5051s so the Robby wheel is basically a expensive rip off of these wheels.

 

[FasterNU]

never even knew about these wheels...

 

[85Yota]

When I had them on my f150 when i bought them I thought they looked awesome. Some people were hating on them. Well now I have 4 with good 31's i'd sell for $400

 

[Kellyex1450]

Things I love about Kusters, no sissy soft jaws needed to service, the more vise waffle iron marks you collect on them the better they are.
Things I don't like about Kusters, every shock end is blown out so you have to use aluminum tape sleeve retainer on every com12 bearing.

 

[Kellyex1450]

Pic1 So researching these old school radius arms I came across guys that aren't happy with the flex do this wristed radius arm on one side. It basically acts like 3 link. I'm not gonna do this now but I will highly consider it. Let me know your thoughts. To be its the right level of rock donkey for my build, look at the dang old hitch pin in the pic below! That's fantastic. The fact that I could go back and forth between sway bar feeling and full flexy with a hitch pin is amazing.
Pic2 I finished the the bump stops for the front today, i dont have a picture of that but i do have a picture of the mock up bump stiking a mock up potato. The potato was used as inspiration for the stike pad its under. I find S10 fabbing very enjoyable, there is such a low bar for everything on S10s and its so hideous i don't have to take into account the style and looks of things like my I have to on my 86 toyota 4x4.

 

[Kellyex1450]

Onto final assembly of front

 

[Kellyex1450]

The Pissnoma is now the Jiznoma, I found a pack of expired 2007 condoms under the center council after I removed it for the manual shift transfer case conversion. For the manual shift conversion I got the only thing I could find which is a kit for a Chevy Astro from Journeys offroad. I had to re-engeer everything to get it to work and the some of the tolerances were crap. Turdbro made me some custom bronze bushings and supplied a aircraft fastener to replace sloped out the poor quality stuff the kit came with.