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October 2015

You'll see gaps in time. I admittedly enjoy driving the truck more than working on it, so I do a project, then drive it. In this case, it was down nearly two months. But the upgrade was by far the best one yet. The PO said he had replaced the brakes, but this thing just didn't have the same stopping power as Mean Green did with the same single master cylinder/four drum brake system. Couple the lackluster stopping power, with the borg warner's freewheeling feature, and it was time for the disc brakes to go on. But first, the removal. Had to remove the components from the yellow truck, so they could be cleaned and painted. They were already cleaned fairly well, as I had did all that back in 2005. Here's the disc brake components.

Edited to show the removal of Crusty Biscuit's front suspension components. The driver's side didn't fight me. The passenger side, well, that was a day of pulling everything I had to throw at it, only for it to laugh at me. I had to make a spreader to go between the ball joints, and that got it break loose in short order. I will never use the hammer method again the get a lower ball joint to break loose. I was taught to use the hammer method, but I much prefer the spreader method now that I know about it. I guess I should have expected the passenger side to put up more of a fight because it has more rust on that side. A good learning experience.