Axle swap in "The Big Cheese"

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Originally Posted by brute4c

Nice, large, pics....

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If anyone could make them a bit smaller, feel free. Sorry about the blind guy pics......:D New camera and all.

I popped in on page 7, pics are on 6, saw:

"If anyone could make them a bit smaller, feel free. Sorry about the blind guy pics...... New camera and all. "

so I thought, how big can they be? and went back to 6 to look...


and I saw half of a brake resivoir cover across my entire screen... LOL

I believe that Imageshack has a feature to automatically size the pics as you save them (usually 600x800 is plenty or maybe a little bigger) similar to what photobucket does.
That will save you from any embarassing large pics in the future ;)

I figure they do. Its late here, so I will sort it tomorrow to keep from destroying anyones eyes.........:D

Thanks for the info!

Okee Dokee....fixed the "big screen" effect. Now you can view the pics at the screen rather than across the room...............:D

Update:

Yesterday, I finished the final plumbing for the brakes and hydroboost. Everything is full and operational now. Here is the cooler mounting for the power steering:

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/4...m715cooler.jpg

With 4 wheel discs, and hydroboost, all you have to do is to think about stopping. Wow! What an improvement! THe power steering moves those big 'ol 42's pretty effortlessly too.

Perportions are perfect, nice job! My brother and I are hoping to get the same results with ours.. What exactly did the 14bolt come from? For example 83-87 1 ton gm van? I really want to narrow down my search for the rear end so I'm trying to figure out what application (model years) the axle was used in..Your doner 14 was originally single rear right? Thank you.

Everyone always seems so worried about which vehicle to get a 14b out of. ANY. Add $20 in new perches and $15 to a welder buddy and Bang! You are in. (well, disk conversion too)
I'd be more worried about getting the R&P I wanted because those kits are pricey.

Yeah your right, I just wanted to get the widths close F+R....

The 1 ton van with a SRW application will garner you the proper width at 70" WMS to WMS and a 1 ton Dana 60 front is 69.5" WMS to WMS. That is as close as possible to get to exact widths.

Don't automatically assume that a 1 ton G-series van will have a 14 bolt though, as I discovered. Some of the early 90's models have a corporate rear that also has 14 bolts on the rear cover, but is not a floating axle, rather a c-clip differential. You can tell by looking at the front of the housing. If the pinion doesn't unbolt, it isn't a 14 bolt full floating differential.

As far as the exact application that this one was from, I don't know they year, only that it is in fact a van rear.

Alright. An update on the progress is in order.

The driveshafts arrived mid snowstorm a couple weeks ago, and it finally thawed enough to get the truck out of its snowdrift and back into the shop to get them installed:

http://www.m715zone.com/jonmisc/bcdriveshafts.jpg

Along with the driveshafts, I also finshed installing the shock mounts and got all 4 shocks installed:

http://www.m715zone.com/jonmisc/bcreardriveshaft.jpg

http://www.m715zone.com/jonmisc/bcrearshocks.jpg

And lastly, the MRAP seat install is complete. Those seats are really nice, but are they ever heavy. Like 200 lbs a piece heavy with the schrapnel proof bases on them. Even after removing the bases which are made of 1/8" steel plate, the seats still must weigh in at about 80 lbs per. Anyway, with the Ford Explorer power bases, they are fully adjustable in about 10 directions:

http://www.m715zone.com/jonmisc/bcmrapseats.jpg