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That is a good point but there is very little side force on the air bags and link bars. All of that force is in the panhard bar. I will see if I have the room to put in some gussets. Overbuilt is always better than broken.

Also finally squeezed in the bilsteins that have been on the shelf long enough. It took a little odd mounts to get them to clear the links, bags and brake lines. I also grabbed up a sprinter 1.125" rear sway bar to squeeze under there, one bar in the front and one bar in the rear somehow.

Changed out the old Minneapolis Moline low pressure single acting cylinder for a modern 3,000 psi double acting one and a new double acting pump to go along with it. Nice not to have the leaks anymore.

Finally fit the windshield and it fits Lots of welding pays off

Here is some information on the slam re-8 bags I chose to use. Internal bump stops are a great feature on air bags when space is limited .

It is set up to drive with zero air if it has to. The firestone and slam air bags have the bump stops built into the insides. The same length arms are for maintaining pinion angle as the suspension cycles. It isn’t planned to be a rock crawler just comfortable on dirt roads and mild two...

The firestones had 5 inches of travel shown in the pictures . The new slam bags have close to 10 inches of travel

Running a air ride manifold for each corner control.

Mounted two 2.5 gallon tanks for air reserve.

Changed from the Firestone bags to slam specialties ss-8 for more load capacity.

It is still in progress , just now with cushy 4 link from and rear with air ride and bilstein 5100 shocks.

Well call me nuts but parallel 4 link front and rear with air bags sounded like a good idea to add to the FC build up. It has to ride better than the 9 leaf front and 11 leaf rear packs . 2'' square tubing with 0.25 wall 36" long should hold up to about anything. Grease able poly...

A nice bonus of the virus shut down... lots of time to work in the shop. A major leap in progress.

A sad up date to your build. I will say the rust repair on these cabs can take an extensive amount of time but well worth it in the end. I hope betsy moved onto a good home.

patience i'll finish it .... eventually :laughing:

Setting up the battery isolator and dump bed solenoid. (no mike the LS isn't going in the FC-170) Also working on the harness and since the project wasn't hard enough I went with the all black wiring harness. Heat, a/c, lots of extra lights (relays), radio, dual batteries and winches and...

Working on fitting the lights so I have a target for the wiring. And to try and find all the trim I took off it 4 years ago

I pulled my hydro boost out of a wrecked duramax. Some 2500 and 3500 gas trucks have hydro boost as well.

Just grab a hydro boost from the junk yard. Mine was only $30 including the master cylinder. As for the front drive line angle unless you are using 4x4 on the road at speed a little steeper angle shouldn't hurt, or just do what chevy did for decades and use the double cardon joint. The...

Slow but still progress. A little more bumper work with working on an idea to bring it around the corners of the cab. It will have a chamfer instead of the sharp corner to better follow the curve of the cab. I finally decided where I can fit the fuse panel so the wiring can get done also.