So been a long *** winter, havent really needed to mess with the black d1 but as much as i didnt want to lift her, my brother was in a u pull in virginia a few weeks back and came across a d1 that apeared to have a almost brand new terrafirma lift so he grabbed it
Medium springs
3 shocks
Hd steering bars
Steering damper
Front hd shock hoops
All for the low low price of $133 lol and stuff looks brand new, one rear shock he couldnt access the bottom bolt so called lucky 8 and ordered one up came in like 2 days
So we are under $200 into what looks like a new lift on my $300 d1 lol

So this weekend i decided to put the teenager to work and talk him through the lift , he did well

I did decide to check the swivel drag and the pass side had no resistance, popped the abs sensor and it was trashed, popped the swivel and it was damged and the bearing was non eqsistant, lucky for me i had an old swivel and knuckle assembly lying around so that got fixed and topped off the swivel grease with some 00

Now u did measure before and then after with same tires and we seem to have gained about 3 1/4" then we swapped the tires on from the camel,

we did leave sway bars on for now but now i remember why we took em off the camel

initial drive , rides very firm, no sway on corners so this will definitely take getting used to

 

You swap out the wheels?

 

Yes i swapped them from the yellow camel dq since its got a bad trans still

 

I’m having a random mis looking for the 8 mm magnecore wires where did you get them from I’ve only found the ones for the disco II will they work for my D1

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Bought the wires from another member sorry no idea where they got em

 

Did you get it painted yellow or is that a vinyl wrap? If I read correctly the truck was not always yellow?

 

i panted it with old caterpillar yellow from tractor supply, its probably back toward the beginning of the thread

 

Nice rig. The roof racks are probably the coolest thing in my mind

 

well ive drug her out of the yard and powerwashed her, swapped the master cylinder, bled brakes and now I have brakes again !!!!! got her up on the lift and need motivation to swap in the used trans and fingers crossed i'll have her road worthy again

 

trans swaps done , I now have a working trans again, in january we will put historic tags on her since she will be 25 years old and ill work on here some here and there but its run drive stop roadworthy again !!!

I also have some d2 front seats I picked up that I want to recondition the leather and install