The Baja350 - a Dentside Story

[the_fablab_]

There is no way the truck will need a 400lb main rate, use the loaner springs to figure out your corner weights Mike, crank them down until your desired ride height is achieved, then measure the spring to see how much it compressed.

 

[DesertGoat]

^mikey nailed it. The 350 single rates are just dinged up loaners from the homies at Accutune to figure out corner weight so we can order the right stuff later. I just wanted the mental win of setting it on its own weight - I know these aren't final.

Aside - Accutune has been helpful yet again with figuring out the hose routing for the reservoirs on the coilovers. Got that all tuned up last night for mockup, pics below. so now I can send them back to the shop 1 more time to final torque all the fittings & refill with oil. Now I have to get brave enough to print the final version of the resi mounts haha

 

[the bodj]

What material will it be printed out of? I'm curious how it's going to hold up, but cool implementation!

 

[DesertGoat]

PPA-CF is my intention. Has a temp resistance higher than what the reservoir bodies "should" get to.
Seems worth trying.

in other news - I'm beginning to start on the back half. Started by welding up all the holes in the cab wall from removing the OE full tank. Then I added clevises to the rear cab tube stub-outs & stripped out the dana 70. that big boy will eventually find it's way underneath my supercab tow rig.

The clevises are the same pieces I used for the engine cage interface - so there will be bushings here as well. I'm going to standby on adding the down tube from the top of the cab until I can get things started and visualize the whole tube layout & make a call at that point. I'm def leaning towards adding them for safety reasons. kinda blows my aesthetic vision though. but I don't wanna die... so there's that.

Last thing was to mount up some S2's to the front grille as they just showed up & I couldn't help myself.