Last time I had the truck out, I bashed up the stock LCA pretty badly, so my plan was to just replace it with another stock arm and maybe box them in or something. After procrastinating on this project for quite sometime, Chris offered me his custom long arms off his buggy. Obviously, I said I'd love them and that was that. Well I put it off long enough to get my self in a bind due to losing my job, so I started today with the guidance/help of Chris and made some progress.


Picture doesn't do it justice. It was tweaked pretty bad.


Sorry for the blurry picture, but this shows the factory bracket on it's way out..


These are the beasts going in.... I don't think I'll bend one of these :)


Brackets all gone and ready for the new metal..


Doesn't look like a ton got done, but it was time consuming.

This is going to be awesome!

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I like! Are you changing anything with the uppers?

No, uppers will stay the same. I won't gain anything from changing that, so till stay stock.

Well, between a few hours last week and all day today, it's 99% done. All that's left is changing out a couple bolts and some painting.


Cutting out the new brackets..


Had to pull out the cross member so that we could weld the inside bracket. By far the hardest task of them all... what a pain.


mocking up the brackets so Chris can do his welding magic to them.


Chris being awesome


Passenger side in... and driver side cut out.




As you can see in this picture, the frame is actually slanted outwards so when you're trying to put the cross member in from under, it's nearly impossible. It took Myself, Chris, and his brother Matt along with a really big hammer and a hi-lift jack to finally get it in. We had to use the hilift to spread apart the frame rails to get enough room. (this, Bob is why I was frustrated today :)



But, they are in.




All that's left is some painting, and after I get it back on the ground I"ll check the alignment and make sure that's good as well.

Also want to give a huge thanks to Chris and his brother Matt for all the help, and to Chris for helping me out in a bind with parts and a shop to work in.. oh, and a job :D Good guy, that Chris is. Someday I will repay you brother. Somehow. For now, I"ll just keep bringing my mothers homemade cookies to work. :)

Great work guys. Where are the poser flex pics? :))

^^^This

Avis wrote: (this, Bob is why I was frustrated today :)

As long as you make it up to him in the morning

Avis wrote:
Had to pull out the cross member so that we could weld the inside bracket. By far the hardest task of them all... what a pain.

As you can see in this picture, the frame is actually slanted outwards so when you're trying to put the cross member in from under, it's nearly impossible. It took Myself, Chris, and his brother Matt along with a really big hammer and a hi-lift jack to finally get it in. We had to use the hilift to spread apart the frame rails to get enough room. (this, Bob is why I was frustrated today :)

Yep. I removed and put mine back in with a SFH (its like a BFH but small) while on my back under the truck. I feel your pain. Joe laughed when I told him about it and asked why I didnt use a Hilift to push the frame out.

good times putting that x member back in. i didnt even notice the frame tapered up till i was under it helping daniel and my brother. ghey design. it loks good now that its done. some fresh paint and good as new. no problem in the help daniel, im sure ill get it back out of you working on my project. oh, and im glad to have you on board for the northern az take over. it should be awesome.