eskimoburton

I'm not worried about swapping the kingpins,I had them changed like 6 days ago but I read somewhere that the kits are hard to find,the only reason I had a kit was because the PO gave me it when I bought the truck. Also I don't want to buy a 521 with stuff already done to it,I'd rather do it myself. Rhino,I actually watched his Kingpin videos and looked at his site,I'll hopefully be doing the disk conversion in a month or so.

The kingpins got changed a little less than a week ago but I thought kingpin kits were hard to find?

I'm not sure why the PO hasn't removed the Craigslist Ad,It really doesn't bother me much because I have the title and its in my name now. I won't be pulling the motor for a while,it gets me where I need to go so until it gives me a reason to pull it it'll be staying. My main focus right now is the suspension.. I want something that doesn't use kingpins and won't require a bunch of fabrication. Any suggestions would be awesome!

I decided that it's probably time I started a project thread for the 521 that I picked up about 3 weeks ago. I had some money saved up for a truck and I knew I for sure wanted a 620,521,or a Hardbody,I search craigslist every morning when I get off work around 5am and one day I saw there was a 72 521 in decent condition that was close to me,It was posted for $1500 obo. I called the dude and the next thing I know its 7am and I'm on my way to take a look at it,long story short I got the truck for a $1000. The dude I bought it from said he doesn't know how many miles are on it because his plan for it was to scrap the l16 and put a v8 in it.. I dig the l16 and it runs pretty damn good so ill be keeping it for a while,clean title as well. It's on 4 inch blocks in the rear and im not sure about the front,I assume the torsion bars are cranked down. I had a friend drive it home for me while I followed behind him,it had bad tags at the time. Once I got home I started fixing the little things while I waited for payday. I'm not sure what the person hit but there isn't frame damage so my plan for now is to fix everything else while I wait for a 521 front end to pop up. All the lights worked except the passenger side high beam so I pulled the grill and head light housing off to inspect why it wasn't working... it was unplugged :sleep: Once payday came I paid a friend to change the kingpins for me because I don't have the tools or space to do something like that,the PO gave me a box of parts which had a kingpin kit in it and since the driver side kingpin was pretty bad I figured I should get that done as soon as possible. I went out an bought wipers as well because it only had one at the time and since I live in Oregon I knew I would need them. I have a lot of plans for the interior but I discovered a pretty bad leak in the front window so that'll be the first thing to get taken care of before worrying about anything else. I'm not sure if I like these or not,I mainly got them so that I couldn't get pulled over for having no side mirrors. This is how it sits as of now until payday again.. I do daily drive it though. :D have some random photos. My friend enjoys the truck just as much as I do!