[Russell]

While a friend of mine took the rolling chassis into his work to clean all the mud, grease and gravel off it, I finally got my front diff back and got to work installing and assembling it. Of course, I couldn't just put stock parts back in when I rebuilt the front end. I fitted it with Solid Axle Industries inner Cs, knuckles, steering arms and 35 spline 4030 Yukon Chromoly axle shaft assemblies. The 1 ton brakes were removed and I fitted the front end with 10 bolt 3/4 ton brakes instead. This meant my truck had the same size calipers front and rear (the rear 14 bolt semi floater was fitted with 3/4 ton 10 bolt disc brakes to replace the drums) and allowed me to properly proportion the brakes and provided me with a wicked brake pedal feel combined with the new 1.5" master cylinder.