Rebirth of Dustbull-with 408ci, efi, t56, dana 60
Sorry to hear about your accident, glad youre ok, but hopefully you can or were made whole from that accident. Don't worry about the Ram, the frame I used for the kaiser was leftover from my friends ex cab short bed conversion on his 97. My friend also had a spare 80k mile 6bt/nv4500, so the 'donor' I bought was rebuilt and given to his cousin in Ohio which was subsequently sold (in a way out from under me and my friend) for 4x what I bought it for as an auto-but that's neither here nor there.
I got everything mocked up finally, my only concern is how low the coilovers hang, and how little compression I have left at this position; the bracket hangs 8" from the centerline of the axle at ride height (if this is where they'll rest with springs)-what do you guys think about this? I'm half considering relocating the springs to behind the axle because of this...The tubes for the links are cut and are within 1/8"-1/16" of their partner-I'm very happy that things ended up this symmetrical with my relatively crude measurement/locating techniques for the brackets.
I pulled the axle out to finish welding everything. I'm going to cut the old pinion snubber out and a few other things before welding the crossmember in for good...I had a few 'casualties' as in pulled the axle since I just tacked the brackets on, but i can easily relocate what got knocked around.
Sorry to hear about your accident, glad youre ok, but hopefully you can or were made whole from that accident. Don't worry about the Ram, the frame I used for the kaiser was leftover from my friends ex cab short bed conversion on his 97. My friend also had a spare 80k mile 6bt/nv4500, so the 'donor' I bought was rebuilt and given to his cousin in Ohio which was subsequently sold (in a way out from under me and my friend) for 4x what I bought it for as an auto-but that's neither here nor there.
I got everything mocked up finally, my only concern is how low the coilovers hang, and how little compression I have left at this position; the bracket hangs 8" from the centerline of the axle at ride height (if this is where they'll rest with springs)-what do you guys think about this? I'm half considering relocating the springs to behind the axle because of this...The tubes for the links are cut and are within 1/8"-1/16" of their partner-I'm very happy that things ended up this symmetrical with my relatively crude measurement/locating techniques for the brackets.
I pulled the axle out to finish welding everything. I'm going to cut the old pinion snubber out and a few other things before welding the crossmember in for good...I had a few 'casualties' as in pulled the axle since I just tacked the brackets on, but i can easily relocate what got knocked around.
