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Finally received the replacement shock, got the rear's installed yesterday. It drives even better now that the rear is properly dampened. Um, yeah, the one on the right isn't supposed to do that... That would explain why I was still getting some banging coming from the passenger rear...

So I am pretty darn proud of myself. Took the Alpha in this morning for an alignment and when I looked at the printout after they were done I was quite pleased with the before section: Not bad for totally eyeballing where to set the alignment cams for the upper control arms, eh...

Thanks! I try to keep it nice.

Finally got everything buttoned up. Changed the oil, removed the nuts I added to the front shocks to lengthen them (since I discovered/remembered afterwards that the shocks act as travel limiters), then drove down to the church parking lot to have a level place to finish up everything. When I...

Last night I cleaned up and repainted the Hunner skids for the leaf spring u-bolts and shocks, then today I was able to get the front torsion bars mostly adjusted and the last few things torqued down that needed it. I did realize though that I probably should not have added the nut on top of the...

More shots of the finished work. I ordered a kit of grease fitting caps to keep them clean. I never liked the idea of it being possible to force some dirt in when greasing joints, no matter how little it may be. Having the caps on there will help keep the nipples clean, especially since this is...

Forced myself to work on the Alpha some more. I was hoping I could get the front completely buttoned up, but instead I only barely managed to get the passenger side mostly done. I still need to set the resting height and tighten down the lower shock bolt, but I won't do that until I get the...

Other things done were getting the trailer wiring hooked up. When I bought it there was no connection to the vehicle, the wires for the trailer lights actually stopped just a bit before the axle. I purchased a 8 foot 7 way plug and cable and distribution box, since I'll eventually get electric...

Finally took some more pictures Tuesday morning to show what progress had been made on the trailer. First up was welding up the tub a bit to keep it from falling apart any further: And I needed to replace the catch for the gate that had been torn off on the driver's side: Nothing...

Didn't get anything done Tuesday other than taking some pictures in the morning. Here's where I ended up Saturday night: I put trash bags over the knuckles to keep the rain off them, since they aren't fully back together yet I didn't want anything that normally isn't exposed to the weather...

I spent a good part of the day Saturday working on re-assembling the front suspension since I wanted to get the front all back together before this week so that I could lift the rear and start working on that (with the driveway on an incline I felt it would be unwise to try and lift the rear of...

I'll tell you what, finally breaking down and buying a 20 ton shop press and an air hammer were a couple of the best decisions I have made yet. Life changing, seriously. What used to involve lots of blood, sweat, tears, fire, and sacrificing to the automobile gods, as well as several hours of...

What does it look like when you completely remove all of the front suspension on an H3? Like this: The gloves are covering the tie rod ends, rain was forecasted and I didn't want them to get wet and start rusting on me. I also plugged up the openings in the axle to keep dust and whatnot...

I should take some more pictures, but here is what I ended up with for the trailer tongue: Not much else has happened with the trailer, though it pulled terrific for the 600+ mile trip each way for my Colorado trip. Still a ton of work to do on it, hopefully once I am done redoing the entire...

Here's something that I wanted to share with everyone since I have only ever been able to find exactly one picture of them on the entire Internet (and I'm pretty darn good at doing searches) and unfortunately that one photo wasn't a very good shot of them. These are what actual Old Man Emu leaf...

So, while I was under the truck looking at all this and taking measurements and such, I glanced down at one of the shock mounts and discovered a new problem. At some point the inner ear for the shock cracked off. The brackets had been modified to give a little bit of additional clearance...

So I really haven't been able to work on the H3 much this summer thanks to work being a nightmare. We've now gone through two guys that were supposed to replace my old coworker, but both of them were fired after three months each. The last one was more than a waste of time, he was downright...

We made it back home the next day without any further issues, though that exhaust leak would continue to be an issue as the nuts kept coming loose. So imagine my frustration when it finally got to the point that no matter what I did the leak wouldn't go away. I kept checking the nuts but I...

So, a lot has happened since I left for Colorado. The trip itself was good, even with hitting the deer, though I could have done without having to do so much remote work for my company during it. Aside from the deer hit, the drive was unfortunately eventful. As I neared my destination I...

So, no, I didn't die on my trip to Colorado. Though a deer did. Tragic. [VIDEO] The irony of that was just minutes before it happened my wife and I were discussing what would happen if we hit a deer, since we had already seen quite a few along that stretch of road. She was convinced it would...