1994 F150 (The wife made me do it)

otter · Post by **otter** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 11:15 am

VintageIronFab wrote:Pat-- why did you change the lower beam mount? Did you do a c&t or just change the mounts? Do you know how many inches taller over stock you are running?

Are you talking about the lower shock mounts?

As far as height not sure maybe 3-4" taller.

VintageIronFab · Post by **VintageIronFab** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:09 pm

Sorry-- the beam mount on the frame?

otter · Post by **otter** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 7:42 pm

The new driver's side beam mount is the stock mounting location. All I did was make it stronger and have it tie into the frame rail. This is a weak spot on these frontends. The stock mount moves around quite a bit.

philofab · Post by **philofab** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:19 pm

You going to the base on the big island or O'ahu? Still recruiting?

I've been inside some FOAs. The insides are rough, they can be made to work with some polishing but I recommend everyone else first.

dtbback · Post by **dtbback** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 8:38 pm

philofab wrote:You going to the base on the big island or O'ahu? Still recruiting?

I've been inside some FOAs. The insides are rough, they can be made to work with some polishing but I recommend everyone else first.

How would you polish them up?

otter · Post by **otter** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 9:02 pm

philofab wrote:You going to the base on the big island or O'ahu? Still recruiting?

I've been inside some FOAs. The insides are rough, they can be made to work with some polishing but I recommend everyone else first.

Going to Oahu. Going to back to doing my actually job,no more recruiting.

I only picked the FOA's to see first hand if they have improved. I have had my coilover apart and they were fine. The bypasses seem to be another story. I just got both shocks back so we will see how they work. They also told me the don't sell or make very many 3.5's so they ended up with issues sometimes. They went back and looked at the pistons and realized the whole batch was machined wrong.

dtbback · Post by **dtbback** » Mon Feb 16, 2015 9:12 pm

Well I guess that means my 3.5s may be headed back to FOA for new pistons.

otter · Post by **otter** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 8:32 pm

Well this weekend was the first voyage for the truck. I headed out to Cal city on Friday morning. When I got there on Friday I played around with the rear shock tuning and got it working pretty good.

Saturday we headed out on a long run and the truck was doing awesome.

Then all of a sudden the truck made an odd noise. Got out looked the truck over and couldn't find anything. So I headed out again. About 2 miles later I heard a grinding noise. Got out and starting looking the truck over again. Got to the rear of the truck and smelt gear oil. Apparently the a few pinion teeth decided they no longer wanted to play. JB welded up the hole refilled with oil. Limped her back to camp. It didn't make any noise at all. So I said screw it, it's only 230 miles home. What's the worst that could happen. haha. This morning we headed home. Kept her at a 55 mph pace listened to the rear end growling at me for 4 hours and made it home.

Placed some pennies in the JB weld (Heads Up). I think it was the good luck charm that got us home.

Post by **SteveG** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 8:42 pm

Bummer about the diff problems but nice trail repair!

VintageIronFab · Post by **VintageIronFab** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:36 pm

Thats seriously a great idea for the JB Weld! How'd you like the FOA's afterall?

dtbback · Post by **dtbback** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:42 pm

Talk about cashing in your good luck!!! Sucks to hear about your diff though. 9 inch time!

otter · Post by **otter** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:50 pm

VintageIronFab wrote:Thats seriously a great idea for the JB Weld! How'd you like the FOA's afterall?

They ended up doing good. Once I got to bashing on them they worked fine. I've got desert blue balls now. Just started to get a feel for the truck and ready to give her hell and boom, trip is over.

dtbback · Post by **dtbback** » Sun Mar 01, 2015 10:05 pm

Hearing that your FOAs did well is encouraging.

tcm glx · Post by **tcm glx** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 7:11 am

Looks like a damn good time, and agreed, awesome trail repair.

otter · Post by **otter** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 8:26 pm

Hopefully I fixed my problem.

dtbback · Post by **dtbback** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 8:36 pm

Is that a rear truss I see?

otter · Post by **otter** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 8:43 pm

It is. 4.56 and a Detroit.

dtbback · Post by **dtbback** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 8:57 pm

Nice!!

birdco85 · Post by **birdco85** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 9:03 pm

Is that the one from dezertrangers?

nubreed71 · Post by **nubreed71** » Mon Mar 02, 2015 9:08 pm

That the one with the 5/8" studs? Good score on that thing!