Re: (72-93) 1st gen dodge truck weigh & suspension
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01/23/15 03:14 PM
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Hey, welcome to the site! Wow, got any pictures of this Beast you can show us? Sounds right up my alley anyway. A couple of suggestions for your brakes: 1. Expensive, but see if you can locate a wrecked SRT Ram and grab the whole braking system and anything else you can from it and adapt it to your truck. 2. Much cheaper, look into adapting a set of brakes off of a 3/4 ton truck. As I'm sure you've noticed, the entire front-end on these is big, empty box. I've seen a couple of these trucks involved in front collisions and they fold like a carboard box, and so does the cab. I mean, from what I saw, they have horrible protection for the occupants. My opinion, You really take your life into your own hands if you start removing the inner fenders and going fiberglass hood.
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Re: (72-93) 1st gen dodge truck weigh & suspension
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01/23/15 03:46 PM
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Didn't the Texas Monkeys use a newer Ford Crown Vic front stub on one? Plenty of brake, sprung about right, R&P steering and just right width IIRC.
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Re: (72-93) 1st gen dodge truck weigh & suspension
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01/23/15 09:44 PM
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Hp383 can tell you how badly these trucks fold up. He had a bad collision in one and now has a wheelchair in his signature.
I've had a few minor to mild collisions in mine and I can tell you it hurts.
We are brothers and sisters doing time on the planet for better or worse. I'll take the better, if you don't mind. - Stu Harmon
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Re: (72-93) 1st gen dodge truck weigh & suspension
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01/24/15 04:41 AM
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Last one of my truck cause no one wants to see my old work truck
1979 "boostedwarlock", 1931 Dodge, 1974 w100, 1974 w200, 1979 w200, 1981 Ramcharger, 1984 Ramcharger, 1985 w150. I have tons and tons of other Mopars but I don't have the time to list.
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Re: (72-93) 1st gen dodge truck weigh & suspension
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01/24/15 06:06 AM
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IIRC, the C-body and 1/2-ton trucks used the same size upper balljoint, so if you're thinking car knuckle, that's your likeliest bet I'm guessing.
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Re: (72-93) 1st gen dodge truck weigh & suspension
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01/24/15 01:34 PM
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That might be true some had said that as well. Now I just need to fine an old one someone has laying around with all the goodies so that I can do a little bit of measuring.
1979 "boostedwarlock", 1931 Dodge, 1974 w100, 1974 w200, 1979 w200, 1981 Ramcharger, 1984 Ramcharger, 1985 w150. I have tons and tons of other Mopars but I don't have the time to list.
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Re: (72-93) 1st gen dodge truck weigh & suspension
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01/24/15 04:01 PM
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The '73 C body rotor was shared with the early trucks. AndyF made a big brake kit for this rotor so you might want to see if you can scrounge one up. If I remember correctly it was a 13x1.25 inch rotor and viper calipers.
Thank you Aaron
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Re: (72-93) 1st gen dodge truck weigh & suspension
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01/24/15 05:17 PM
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1) cut the braking surface off your rotors and convert them into hubs. 2) open the center register of 2005 Mercedes S500 brake rotors to fit the truck center registers. Redrill the bolt pattern to match. 3) make a bracket to mount the proper caliper in the best position. 4) if using a multi piston caliper be sure the wheels have the spokes far enough away from the mounting surface to clear big fat calipers.
Another option is to send me the truck spindles and enough cash to build the setup you want.
We are brothers and sisters doing time on the planet for better or worse. I'll take the better, if you don't mind. - Stu Harmon
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Re: (72-93) 1st gen dodge truck weigh & suspension
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If you want to use a single sided caliper with larger brakes you can grab more common off the shelf rotors like the 2007 Charger RT. You will need to turn your rotors into hubs and install slightly longer studs.
The Charger center register and bolt pattern are the same as your truck. The shallow offset of the rotor means a floating caliper will be required. You will need to adapt the siding caliper mount to the spindle. It's possible to do that but, again, I'd need the spindle, caliper, hub, and rotor to build it.
That would give you $30 rotors (13.5") and $20 pads. All parts would be off the shelf except for the hubs you make out of your stock rotors.
17" wheels would be required, possibly 18" depending on the caliper chosen.
We are brothers and sisters doing time on the planet for better or worse. I'll take the better, if you don't mind. - Stu Harmon
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Re: (72-93) 1st gen dodge truck weigh & suspension
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01/25/15 06:01 PM
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Quote:
Building 1 1/4 front sway bar and a 1 3/4 rear sway bar.
That sounds dangerously backwards. Have you driven this combo yet?
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