Dvap Arizona Junk Yard

Posted by on 17 June 2010 | 6 Comments

Dear Diary, to play catch up Im going to update today about where we are at, Arizona....198 degrees! After avoiding spontanouse combusten and 3rd degree burns from leaving our tools out, we were able to get done both axle placment and installation. The facts. REA is from a 78 Grandad 8" and we also used "ladderbar" from another truck out in the yard. Why? Because it was the easy to get it and it was the closet to the dim's we needed for the Rat.

We have the truck on some what of a square rig, and we made all the needed measurement and guess, then started to cut, weld all the fun stuff. Note to self, for the next project have your rea axle assy and front suspension picked out before cutting the frame : ). Since the "ladder bars" came off some sort of late model truck we had to make our own brackets from attaching them to axle housing as well as the frame. This wasn't to hard but we still have some finsih work along the welds to do there. We my self and self other were fighting for room on that project the other guys were cutting and putting the needing metal box in the rear of the frame. We were told to do this for added strength, after few carb board templets were made that went pretty quick.

Next we will get the front end, which is 98 Ferio?