Bloose Build! 1982 Ford F250

BLOOSE

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I always liked that style ford.
Excellent taste :)
My plan is basically combining these three:
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BLOOSE

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I love that truck!!! I have all the pictures saved haha but definitely a prerunner! I want off road performance but will compromise for hauling a camper!
However I am definitely doing a desert inspired offroad vechical rather than a heavy hauler 4x4 or indestructible rock crawler type.

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BLOOSE

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Hey everyone! Just hanging out in the garage looking at my anti-warp bar situation and I figured I would toss an update in to my tread here!

Okay so I received my crossbar DOM tubes and dang, metal seems to have sky rocketed in cost? So the cross tubes are 1.5" x .25" wall tube, super strong. Supported by two brackets each made from 1/4" A36 mild steel.

With the bars in, I found that the raised shock mounts push the shocks too far vertical and they hit the axle during cycle, to fix this I picked up a set of prefabbed mounts from a local desert truck shop, the new lower mounts should push the shocks far enough from the axle to run them at my desired angle I am setting the shocks to 8° forward leaning.

The next thing was to start to visualize the traction bar set up to build the final mount location, the bar is going to have a large range of adjustment so I am not overly paranoid at the moment as long as I can get the pinion angle close I will tune it later. I included some concepts of the final mount design however the keen eye will see that there is a frame crossmember in the way so the concept will be redesigned but similar.
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BLOOSE

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Man, thats an impressive build. I wish I had half the amount of talent and skill that people like you do!
Thank you I appreciate that!

One day I bought a little honda CRX and I was determined that I could use 1980s tech to compete against the modern vehicles... well I haven't been successful yet but I have learned so much with that car! Made tons of mistakes as well, for this build I am trying to "think before I cut" it's hard but I feel I am on the right track!
 
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BLOOSE

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ANYWAY haha made some progress, the anti-warp is coming along nicely! I keep calling it a traction bar but it's an anti-warp bar!

I don't like my gussets so I want to do something different. Now I need to modify the cross bars under the bed to clear the spine. I am going to carry max payload so, I will do something to compensate for the loss of structure in that area. At this point I am pretty happy with everything else and will do some overlays just to add extra strength to the 1/4" mounts.

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BLOOSE

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Hey! Well I guess its been awhile and now I am in the classic forum slow build progress section.

I thought I would toss in an update.
I crashed my SxS so I am rebuilding that now which has really distracted me form the Bloose.

However I have made a bit of progress.

1. Raptor leafs installation
---- Leafs are in, de-packed on "cycle" blocks to locate shock and bump mounts.
---- pulling 13" of rear travel with the single leaf (only for Cycle) and mock-up locations for shocks.
 

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BLOOSE

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For the rear I have decided to use a 2.0 Bilstein Hydro bump stop 4" stroke.

The Bump will strike a plate off the back of the axle. The reason I am doing this is that "if" in the future I want to redo my shock/leaf set up I will be able to cut the strike plate off the axle and not change the bump mount on the frame, which will be welded and much more invasive.
 

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BLOOSE

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lower shock mount and strike plate design:
Strike plate will also have a top wear plate screwed to it in the 4 holes there.
 

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