I started on the front end before december, and i just finished it a week before memorial day. tried it out on memorial weekend, and i was so impressed with it, it worked perfect. the only problem i had was a flat tire, but i had bead locks up front, and i drove from scobby doo, down the power line and back to camp and I didnt even notice in the performance, I love those bead locks. what i did is, i made a new front beam, and i made it a ball joint width, and 3 inches wider than stock. when i made my trailing arms, i used 1 1/2" 3/16 thick square tubing, i made them 2 1/2 inches longer and 1/2 inch wider than stock. i made my link pins out of 4140 chromemally 7/8 thick. I made my king pins out of 1 3/4" 4140, and i had them heat treated, because i used torington needle bearings with square O ring seal to seal the dirt out of the bearings. I kind of copied the ones made by Foddrill. what i made different than everyone else, is instead of the spindle being welded on, i used ford explorer spindles. i went up to the junk yard and picked up the spindles and the rotors. the spindles bolted on with 6 bolts, thats why i used those, and the rotor was too heavy. so i took a chunk of aluminum and i turned up a hub, i bolted on wilwood rotors to the back of it, i even made a stainless steel dust cap, and its all polished, it looks pretty cool. I got rid of the Ghia calipers and bought wilwood calipers to save on weight. i used fox nitrogen shocks, to support it all. Then I used a jeep cherokee power stearing box, to stear it all, i could ride with one hand and drink a beer with the other, its sweet. the front suspension works so good, you feel very little bumps and its kind of cool, when you step on the breaks, the front end would dip down a few inches and you step on the gas, it would lift up a couple of inches. all in all, it gave me 19 inches of clearance under my front beam. I even got a piece of 1/8" thick armor plating, i formed it to fit underneath my bottom tube on my front beam so i dont dent the front beam again, the front end works so good, i recommend it to everybody. all in all, i think i got about $ 900 invested in the whole front end. but my garage is a small machine shop, and i did fab every little piece and part, thats why it took all winter.
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i took and made new 3x3 trailing arms with microstubs. what i used for that was, the front hubs off of a 1992 chevy 4 wheel drive pickup. i took the truck axles and busted the cv out of it, so i had a stub with a cup on it. i put the stub in the lathe and cut it down, and drilled and tapped the holes so i could bolt a bus cv on it. oh ya, when i was cutting the stub, the material was like case hardend, so i had to use ceramic tooling inserts. but once i got through the hardness, it was pretty soft so i was able to use high speed tap and drill for the holes. the tubing i used for the trailing arms was 1 1/4" x 0.180 wall dom tubing. i was able to use the front rotors off of the chevy truck, but i had to turn them down so they were 7/8" thick because i used wilwood calipers. the best part about this was when i went to the junk yard, they charged me 40 bucks for that whole spindle and axle. heres some pictures of it. 
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