The BAD AST Project - Faze II

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How about a quick update? I have no pics from today as BOTH of my camera batteries decided to die at the same time. I just ordered new ones tonight.
Mel and I got the rest of the rear suspension put together today. Here is some of the stuff we worked on.
* Made the upper 4 bar frame brackets.
* Tacked on the upper bar brackets
* Built the panhard bar housing bracket and tacked it to the housing
* Tacking that to the housing we could finish up fitting the PHB frame bracket.
* Tacked and then finish welded the PHB bracket.
* Once all of that junk was in place we could fit the upper shock crossmember.
* We used a piece of 2" x 1/8th wall DOM for that, drilled holes for the shock mount sleeves, notched the ends to fit over the rails and tacked it in.
* I cut a piece of 1" x 1/8 wall DOM to make the panhard bar. Got that weled up and in the chassis.
I will be making some filler plates for the ends of the shock crossmember and doing a lot of welding this coming week.
Got a lot done today! There is a functional rear suspension in the van right now. That is HUGE!!!
I will get pics as soon as I get batteries.
Thanks for reading about my junk
Mark