14 bolt swap with ics

[kelly1]

Just a teaser for now guys and gals. I got it freshened up and painted. Brake parts are cleaned and waiting for install. I'm gonna use my tahoe e-brake cables so I'm waiting to install the brakes till I do the swap.

Swap should happen this coming Sunday.

 

[Ceejkay]

shiny

 

[kelly1]

I know right. I often wonder why I spend so much time cleaning and painting things that will just get dirty and form surface from road rash the second they are installed on a daily driver. It must be my gearhead OCD. HA!

 

[kelly1]

Out with the old, in with the new. It's not as purty as I wanted since I decided to weld the sway bar mounts to it but it is a daily driver and I live on dirt/gravel roads....

Nothing special about it. just a 60k miles original rear. I put new spider gears in it and seals. The bearings all looked great and I was budgeting this one. It's much quieter than my 10 bolt that was about to pop and should last a long time.

 

[foreverfalcon40]

Looks awesome, how much it set ya back?

 

[AtomicHoe094]

Nice! you have a burban or tahoe? The sway bar is a good upgrade for tahoes since they didnt come with them from the factory.

 

[kelly1]

I've got a 4 door tahoe so I had the factory sway bar already and decided to swap the mounts while I had everything apart.

Including what I paid for the rearend and the spider gears I have $400 in it, plus u-bolts and other items on top of that.

 

[AtomicHoe094]

thats not too bad at all! i put around 8 to 900 in rebuilding my 10 bolt from the ground up, did the work myself which saved around 700 bucks labor

 

[kelly1]

I hear ya. I thought the same thing and instead of rebuilding my 10 bolt I went with the 14 bolt since I found one so cheap. I don't do any off-roading but do haul a car trailer several times and figured the 14 bolt should work fine for me.

PLUS I'm a glutton for punishment and figured a swap would be a good way to remind me of how not-young I am getting. lol

 

[AtomicHoe094]

haha. Sounds like it worked out well for you then.

Did the 14bolt have bigger rear drums or the same size? any difference in stopping?