hello josh,
you wont go wrong with getting one of sids axles. please tell him the guys from stovebolt reccommended him to you.
and a good thing with him is, you can even call him on weekends, when you are probably going to be working on your truck and need questions answered.
anyway, yes, letting him put the entire thing together is such a relief, no worries. thats why i let hi do it. i have never messed with king pins before.
yes, he seels everything modified that you will need. you can send him all your stuff, and he will modify them, then send back to you, but i didnt want my truck down that long, so he did the parts he had in stock and sent then to me. that way my truck was down only 1 weekend.
he should have all the required parts in stock, he will let you know when you call him on monday.
i got the 3 inch dropped axle, spindles mounted to the axle with new king pins, tapered steering arms and new tapered tie rod ends, amnd shipping, for $625.00.
if i want to and send him all my original stuff back, it came to something like $180.00 he would have given me back, so basically about $445.00 for all that. you cant beat it. and he is an expert at what he does, and also a nice guy to boot.
i did the mods on my original drag link, but you can get one of those from him also. the mods to my drivers side steering arm was something new to him, and he would have happily sent me another one from his shop, because he said he never had one interfer with the u-bolts as mine was, but i told him no problem, i just modified it myself. no problem.
i ordered a custom length tie rod from speedway motors to accept the new style tie rod ends.
1. yes, narrow axle for disc brakes.
2. yes, get a complete unit from him.
3. yes, have him taper the tie rod holes on steering arms.
4. the tepered tie rod hole should be the only mod for the steering arm, but ask him. ask him if he has had any other people with problems of the tie rod hole hitting the u-bolts and shock on drivers side when turning. for some reason my original left side steering arm was 1/2-1 inch more outboard than the one he sent.
when he taperes the tie rod end holes on the steering arms, the tie rod and ends will only go one way, and it will be opposite, flipped, from the original position.
you will curse a few times with this install, but overall it is so easy. like i said, i did it all by myself, no help.
good luck, and remember to tell him stovebolters sent you his way.
leonard
