Posted By: 76dodgeboy
Truck Lowering Tips and Pics - 11/09/07 03:44 PM
Let see pics of your lowered Trucks and how you lowered them.
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more pics of the green one please... not telling on lowering info may lead to some tail kicking...
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Here is my 82...
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Yours is starting out better than mine! I haven't been able to strip and repaint it like it deserves! Looks like you are going Petty Blue?
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2in lower control arms and ladderbars and coilovers
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Here is my bomb.
Chisholm 2" lowering arms up front and a flip job in the rear.
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My son's truck (Pokey) flopped and chopped
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My son's truck (Pokey) flopped and chopped
Axle flip and cut coils Rite?
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2in lower control arms and ladderbars and coilovers
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How much did you take out of the coils? 1.5?
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The best way is to take a 2" long X 6"round piece of pipe & weld it to the spring pocket on the bottom of the lca. Take a torch or a plasma cutter & cut the pocket out from the inside. Weld 4 angle iron tabs to the bottom of the pipe & weld the piece that you cut with the torch inside the pipe. Use the pieces of angle to weld braces to.
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The best way is to take a 2" long X 6"round piece of pipe & weld it to the spring pocket on the bottom of the lca. Take a torch or a plasma cutter & cut the pocket out from the inside. Weld 4 angle iron tabs to the bottom of the pipe & weld the piece that you cut with the torch inside the pipe. Use the pieces of angle to weld braces to.
Got pics?
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The best way is to take a 2" long X 6"round piece of pipe & weld it to the spring pocket on the bottom of the lca. Take a torch or a plasma cutter & cut the pocket out from the inside. Weld 4 angle iron tabs to the bottom of the pipe & weld the piece that you cut with the torch inside the pipe. Use the pieces of angle to weld braces to.
Got pics?
How about this??
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The best way is to take a 2" long X 6"round piece of pipe & weld it to the spring pocket on the bottom of the lca. Take a torch or a plasma cutter & cut the pocket out from the inside. Weld 4 angle iron tabs to the bottom of the pipe & weld the piece that you cut with the torch inside the pipe. Use the pieces of angle to weld braces to.
Got pics?
How about this??
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The best way is to take a 2" long X 6"round piece of pipe & weld it to the spring pocket on the bottom of the lca. Take a torch or a plasma cutter & cut the pocket out from the inside. Weld 4 angle iron tabs to the bottom of the pipe & weld the piece that you cut with the torch inside the pipe. Use the pieces of angle to weld braces to.
Got pics?
How about this??
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Mine
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Mine
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I figured that was coming ..lol
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Nice trucks!
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'73 D100 Club Cab
Cut coils, axle flip, 255/50/17 front, 275/50/17 rear.
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My brother did the custom art work on this.
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How much cut on the coils. Looks awesome. I want my truck to sit lower.
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bouchillon sells lower control arms now.
http://www.bouchillonperformance.com/BPE37493DropKit.asp
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bouchillon sells lower control arms now.
http://www.bouchillonperformance.com/BPE37493DropKit.asp
Those arms from bouchillon look VERY simular to the arms I got from Chisholm in 97.
I'll post a pic asap, camera batt is dead.
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click here http://www.truckin.com/
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came this way from the factory. I lifted and shortened it
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Mstaedt, I remember seeing that thing driving around Jimmytown.. I'm glad you made it shorter and higher..
Quote:I'm going to build another set using the layout that I described. The 1st set I used too small of diameter pipe. I'll be building another set soon & will be perfecting the shortcomings of the 1st set. I'll take step by step pics when I build them. The 1st set worked but the spring would hang on the edge of the pocket & pop or make the truck sit uneven. I cut away & tried to make it stop but after it did stop there was no way to make it look good & some strength had been lost. I'm building something else too & I'll take pics of it too. Where's the mad scientist smiley?Quote:How about this??Quote:
The best way is to take a 2" long X 6"round piece of pipe & weld it to the spring pocket on the bottom of the lca. Take a torch or a plasma cutter & cut the pocket out from the inside. Weld 4 angle iron tabs to the bottom of the pipe & weld the piece that you cut with the torch inside the pipe. Use the pieces of angle to weld braces to.
Got pics?
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came this way from the factory. I lifted and shortened it
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Now this is low
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I cut a coil and a half out of my truck today and it sit pretty darn low. Ill post pics asap. I might have to raise it up a little. Are you guys sure you cut 1.5 coils? Thanks
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'84 D150. 2" lowered control arms. Flipped and narrowed 8 3/4"