teardown and cleanup

[scottywilkes]

so today i had nothin better to do, and it was a nice day, so i set up a area on out outdoor furniture and went to work tearing the MGT fully down, to grease the joints and lube all the parts. So here we go
went from this
http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6912/p2210326ys2.jpg

to this
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/6986/p4010384lo0.jpg
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/7285/p4010385qm5.jpg

And then back to this :grin:
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/9788/p4010386ug2.jpg
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/3876/p4010387ce3.jpg
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/2782/p4010388kc8.jpg
what u think? :grin:

took a little while, but not as long as i suspected, i got it alltogether then forgot that i didnt grease the pinion and diff ring, dam that annoyed me, so il just leave it for now, it still had a fair bit of grease in there, i was just gonna clean it up and put new stuff on, hopefully a new crowd pleazer 2 will be mounted soon, with Dace 23mm hexes, 40 series velocities, and 40 series dirt hawgs. CANT WAIT!!!! o yeah and a buggy wing and mount, it will be nearly dont by then, still want some GPM diff cases, better radio gear and a STS28:D

[Chevy-SS]

That's a good teardown and needs to be done every once in a while. Things get bent and cracked and you don't even notice. I did that recently on mine and found a cracked shock tower, the crack was virtually invisible. No telling how long it'd been like that, hehehh..........

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[scottywilkes]

you know what, my rear tower is cracked to lol, down on the left hand corner at the base its completely snapped, still works but i dont think it will for long, i gotto get me a new shock tower

[rollinondubz2002]

you know what, my rear tower is cracked to lol, down on the left hand corner at the base its completely snapped, still works but i dont think it will for long, i gotto get me a new shock tower
little more then a cheap stock one but wont break these enless u really beat the snot outa ur truck
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=014&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=330016820477&rd=1&rd=1

[High Life MT]

i think the coolest thing about the pics is that towel. sweet towel:D

[Wide Open]

i think the coolest thing about the pics is that towel. sweet towel:D
i was just about to say that, lol. so ill just say nice truck.

[GTRice]

That's a perfect tear down you got there. The rpm lower a-arms and knuckles looks nice on your truck.

[rollinondubz2002]

i forgot to mention this earlier i love the green rpm knuckles.. i never seen the green ones only white blue purple n black.. did u dye them green yourself?

[scottywilkes]

yes they are dyed green, they were originally the white dyable ones:D

[mrn8]

I didn't know you could use Associated and RPM arms in combination. Interesting...

Looks like a great cleanup. I've got my LST pipe mounted the same way and I'm starting to think through a way to protect it a little from bottom and side impact without adding too much weight to the truck.

[scottywilkes]

yeah mate the pipe gets dinged pretty bad, but im not phased, as long as it still provides good power im happy. And when it gets to bad, il sand it back and polish it up with some mothers alloy mag polish:evil: . LOL.

With the lower RPM a arms, a mate gave them to me for free, they were his old racing arms and he got some new ones for the new season, and i bought the pipe of him and he threw the RPMs in with the shipping box. Thats why i only have the lowers. Theres no diff, and the upper has never flinched with me so the lowers are really the only ones that take the abuse, so its pretty well protected:D