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Project update
With the sliders installed we played around with them a bit. Heres a quick review.
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For the most part the install went quite well for these 3 bolts
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But this one below was a little bit of a challenge. You needed to be spot on when drilling the hole.
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As you can see in this picture the top of the slider fits snugly against the sill. You get to mount directly to the frame and still use the sill for support.
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Over all We think they fit the truck nicely.
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Playing on a gravel pile
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coming down the pipe soon will be diff guards. As you can see from this picture we are on thin ice.
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And finally here's a quick video of us testing the sliders.
p38 slider - YouTube
Project update
The new Terrafirma Disco2 fender flares came in and we did a quick mockup to see if they're going to work.
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You can see from this picture we are getting a serious amount of rub.
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Once the flares are installed I think we'll have plenty of room.
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Unfortunately we're going to have to remove the sliders and trim them a bit, but I feel the benefits of having a 33 inch tire out ways this little bit of extra effort.
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The back doesn't appear to be having as much interference as the front and will not require much trimming at all.
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Next up flare install
Project update
We got a tremendous amount of things accomplished this week. A fender flare was installed, the stock exhaust has been reworked to be more off-road friendly and the transfer case has been locked. Yes you read correctly Locked with a capital L!
The front fender on the driver side was getting the most abuse from the 33in tires so we started there. The grinder made quick work of the little trimming needed on the aluminum fender.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...13/04/1127.jpg
With a little bit of adjustment to the cutouts around the body lines the flares fit the P38 fairly easy.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...13/04/1128.jpg
The D2 flares were not quite big enough to house the Nittos. We needed to stretch them another inch or so at the bottom. To do this we took a heat gun and massaged the lower corner a little bit to extend the flare out.
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We are all happy with the end results even know these flares were not intended for the P38. They gave us the added room we needed to fit the larger tires and now all we have to do is trim back the sliders.
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I know what you're saying all this could be avoided if we just would've stuck with 32in tires but it would not be a true Lucky8 truck unless it was on at least 33's
Exhaust and Tcase updates to follow
Coming along nicely there! I saw the YouTube vid of your P38, that transfer case install will be something a fair few people would be interested in! Can't wait to see/read about it!
No point running 32's on it with the amount of effort you've put in this far! Good to see you have stuck with the 33's!
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Originally Posted by Keithy P38
project update
The exhaust was the next thing we had to address. Everything from the cats back was removed by rocks at our last event.
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For some reason this part of the Y pipe drops lower than anything else on the truck. It had been crushed and bent from an obstacle we went over. I really think we are going to have to make some sort of skid plate to protected in the future.
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And the last thing to repair was this mid muffler section. You can see another off-road faux pas with Land Rovers design right here. This muffler use to hang lower than the frame.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...13/04/1012.jpg
With it out of the way we put in a straight pipe that sits much higher than the frame. This should help us avoid any future damage
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...13/04/1013.jpg
Looking good would be an understatement! Looking brilliant! Out of curiosity how are you comparing off road to the other competitors highly modified rigs?
Gary
project update
We have been racking our brains on how to lock the viscous coupling. There are a few ideas out there on how to make this possible but the expense is making it cost prohibitive. To make matters worse I don't know if the front output shaft is strong enough to handle being fully locked. But as the old saying goes when the going gets tough the tough get going. So we built a jig, welded the viscous coupling in the correct locked position and installed it in the transfer case.
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By doing this we will be able to find out if the front output shaft is strong enough to handle the load put on it when the transfercase is locked. If it doesn't explode we will continue to look for viable options to lock the T case. The best way to show that the transfer case is locked on a Borg-Warner box is to pull the front driveshaft and see if the truck will still move, and thats exactly what we did in this video.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmSs_4Y1gO4&list=UUUnCLXtAqip_9qd-T1NenbA&index=2]P38 locked center diff test - YouTube[/ame]
Your first take on the video maybe just a yahoo having fun in the snow, but when you really look at it our P38 is spinning the rear tires while the front tires remain stationary. This means the transfercase is locked and all the power is going to the rear output shaft without causing an explosion. I'm pretty confident that the rear will hold up okay. We have been driving the truck around as a rearwheel drive unit for about a week without any side effects.