DezertDimes.com was mentioned in the current issue of Off-Road Magazine by our favorite editor Jerrod Jones.  A subscriber wrote in for advice on building a prerunner out of his S10, and we were recommended as the ‘S10 Bible’!

You can’t beat that!

Discuss it HERE in the forum.

DezertDimes wants to promote the 2009 Barstow Desert Cleanup. This is a great event for a great cause.
Please click THIS LINK to our discussion forum for more information and to meet up with the DezertDimes crew.

See http://www.clean-dezert.org/ for info.

Clean-dezert is currently planning and organizing its 3rd annual BARSTOW Desert cleanup.

When: November 14th 2009

Where: Barstow off outlet center drive and I-15

Time: 8:00 am for sign ups

Free food, free raffle with thousands of $ in prizes and free Event shirts while supplies last

We are currently working with alot of different sponsors and looking for more every day. If you are interested in helping out please let me know. Adam@clean-dezert.org

I was just looking through the Official S10 Prerunner Picture thread on the DezertDimes forum,
and figured I’d post up some of the random cool Dime pictures on our site.
These are various pictures posted by forum members, some are members trucks, some we don’t know, but they’re all pretty cool.

So, enjoy some cool Wednesday night S10 prerunner pictures!

Well the DezertDimes and Electrosport crew finished up the final SXS Stadium Series even at Perris Auto Speedway on Saturday 9/12/2009. I (Evan) was out there along with Trent (Technical Sales) at the Electrosport booth from about 2pm until 9:30pm.
Some of the DezertDimes crew headed out (Tailgunner, Mad Mike, S10-Revolution, Metul Munky) and other guys I’m sure I’m forgetting.
Jeremy (Tailgunner) brought out his awesome Dime, and had it displayed in the booth.

We hung out at the booth, showed off all the killer Electrosport lights, watched some awesome racing on the track, and talked trucks all day. Can’t beat that!

Click HERE to see the whole photo gallery!

Here’s some pics from the day:

The Guys at the Booth

Tailgunners Truck

More Tailgunners Dime

The Electrosport Titan holding the generator

This is a killer writeup by our own member Tailgunner on a Mini Spool install on a Ford 9″. His original article is located here.

I as putting my gears back together after a snapped axle change and figured might as well do a write-up!!!! Axle is a Big bearing unit pulled from a ‘79 Ford F100.

Third member was setup pretty good already, has to remove the mini-spool to get axle chunks out. so the adjusters on the carrier bearings were indexed with a sharpy to get me in the ballpark for the backlash adjustment as that is all that is affected when pulling the carrier.

here is all the parts. got them all cleaned up. using a folding ladder/scaffold i got for christmas for the table. added benefit of having the third member fitting between the rungs nicely!!

Parts Layed Out

Here is the mini-spool next to the ring gear. basically it replaces the planetary gears in an open differential. not the best for the street cuz the two axles are now locked together and tires wear out fast and it chirps around the corners. but it drifts really well in the rain on the street and does great off road!!!!!

Mini Spool & Ring Gear

Here is the third member housing in the ladder contraption:

Third Member

first comes these shims, put one in one side of the carrier housing.

Shims

Then comes the mini-spool:

Mini Spool

then the center pin goes thru the carrier and the mini-spool:

Center Pin

then comes the roll pin:

Roll Pin

then the other shim:

Other Shim

then the other half of the carrier:

Other Half of Carrier

then the ring gear tapped halfway into place (leave a gap so you can allign the holes and put in the ring bolts:

Ring Gear

now remember that the locktight sets in under 20 minuites so in order to torque the i rigged up a c-clamp and rake handle deallio to keep the pinion from turning while applying correct torque. Ghetto but it worked

GO!

GO2!

locktight all the ring bolts and thread them, use a ratchet to tighten them in a star pattern so the ring gear seats and no threads are damaged. then set the carrier into the third housing with the outer bearing caps:

Third Housing

align the adjusters with your index marks

Align Adjusters

Align Adjusters 2

put on the bearing caps and torque the ring bolts to 70 ft-lbs and the bearing caps to 60 ft-lbs (bearing caps get locktight as well)

Put on Caps and Torque

Correct me if i am wrong, but the Ford 9″ has no carrier bearing preload so the carrier bearing adjusters are tightened just past hand-tight, adjust the carrier left or right to correct backlash. backlash is the measurement of ring gear play (rotational) while holding the pinion yoke.  backlash should be about .010″. i used a peice of .010″ plastic shim i use on my helo’s held in place and touching the outer edge of the ring tooth. basically it should “clunk” back and forth a cunthair when rotating, but have zero left to right play. once set the adjuster ring holder dealio’s go into place with locktight, couldn’t find a torque on them so i did it marine helo mech style and used the German torque of “Guten-tight”. basically get it tight and then past till you feel a rise in torque.

Almost There!

Done!

DONE!!!!!

take it for a spin to listen for whines and let it have an easy break in period for 20-30 miles to ensure nothing will explode. if it whines or grinds or somthing take it apart and get better advice then mine LOL!!!!