rat rod truck

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Originally Posted by TooMany2count

I have got to come over & look at this "THING" in the near future.
Will give u a hint on how to lowwer the front(if u want too) either cut a coil out of the front springs &/or lowwer the spring pocket on the lowwer control arm. You should be able to get at least 2-4 inch drop out of it, I do believe someone make dropped spindles too.
For the rear you could move the spring to the inside of the frame & use blocks or get a lowwer arched spring, S10/Astro rear springs may work or even the composite springs off of a Dodge mini van may work...joe

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You must be reading my mind, Joe. I 'm going to cut the front springs and block the rear ones to try and get at least a 2" drop all the way around. I bought a set of drop spindles for my 47 Plymouth from Fatmans but they were not cheap and required a disc brake conversion. I'm trying to keep the costs down on this so hopefully cutting a coil or so out will get me where I want. I'll start on the front suspension as soon as I get the cab finished and mounted. Thanks for the interest, feel free to drop by anytime!

lowwer the pocket on the coils too on the lowwer a-arms that way u get more drop..
here's a disc brake swap for a DIY'er from Tex Smith.
here's the brackets for about $225
&& go to the bottom of this page for a Tech Tip if you want to get rid of your oil bath air filter.

Do you have a picture of how to do that? I've never tried lowering spring pockets B4.:confused: Sounds like a cool idea..

sorry i don't, but you would do like this http://www.gcustoms.com/shared/27/Control%20Arms.jpg

check your PM's and call me...joe

Hey, now I get it. I think that may just work. Thanks for the good ideas, that air cleaner trick is pretty slick.

If you are lowering stock lowers, you can cut the 'cup' off and extend it by welding a piece of flat metal, then reattaching the the cup. That will lower the spring, the width of the flat bar that was added.

From the looks of it, I can cut the whole bracket the bottom cup is attached to....I think. I'll have to think about this some more. Thanks for the suggestion and nice avatar!

Here's the latest picture of me and my new garage buddy: grandson Kaden. :D He'll be out there using the plasma cutter before too long.

nice pic there pawpaw :D congratz on the shop helper heres a couple of mine
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...-babies058.jpg

She looks pretty happy, you better watch out! She'll be driving that for real before you know it!

Well, I hope everyone is having a productive weekend. This is kinda becoming my Sunday routine. Get up, make the coffee, post truck progress, and go to church. Not a bad gig. I had Friday off so I got a good day in Friday and about half of Saturday. I got the firewall primed and slid the cab foward to it's rightful position. Spent most of Friday making cab mounts from the old Dodge body mounts. They turned out pretty decent. I got one cab cab corner relaced. I realized that by lowering this thing I was going to need a driveshaft tunnel so luckily the old Dodge tunnel was still laying in the scap pile and was pretty solid. I trimmed it up and I believe it'll work fine. I cut out a big part of the old floor sections; I patched these up while the cab was still on the ground and wasn't even thinking that they might interfere with stuff on the car frame, so now I'm having to do some of it over.:CRY: But it's starting to come together.
I guess it's time to get ready for church, you fellers enjoy the rest of your weekend. Thanks again for all the good suggestions this past week, I got a lot of good ideas brewing from them.

Hey everybody, for simplicity's sake I decided to move the progress on this over to the "Everybody that is currently building a car" thread.