Your diff drop brakets were custom right?
THis is something I need to do.
They were custom in the sense that I pulled them out of the VX, cut the axle mounting areas out of them, moved them down 2", made some spacer plates to fill the 2" gap, then had them welded up. In hindsight, I think I would have tried to cannibalize some off of a trooper(they look the same) so I wouldn't have had so much down time. Just cutting out each side took me a day since I used a dremel and was very careful to make the lines as straight and as thin as possible to facilitate the best welds I could. Then there is the prep for welding. I don't know what isuzu used for the paint on those things, but man was it tough to get off. It resisted abrasive wheels, sanding discs, wire wheels, and pretty much everything I could think to throw at it, it was drudgery type work indeed.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on me.