So today was a good day, despite nearly breaking my wrist, twice, electrocuting myself, and destroying one of my favorite 1/2” electric drills all in the span of about 10 minutes, (yes there’s pics). If you’ve ever drilled a 3/4” hole in steel with a brand new drill bit, and a powerful drill you know where I’m going with this. “Just drill the lower control arm mount brackets” they said, “it’s easy” they said. Nope. My good buddy Chris,
@Turbo440Dart and I decided to tackle lowering my D100 today because we both had nothing better to do than lay on cold concrete and let some blood run out of our knuckles, and become what we now consider ourselves, professional D100 lower’ers. We know exactly what not to do. So if you need your truck lowered just ask and we’ll help you find someone who’s never done it. I digress.
We started about 10am and had the whole front apart by about 10:20 and thought we were cruisin right along. By 1:00 our hands were bleeding and after fighting us at every step along the way the front was done and back together. Dropped it off the jack stands and both of us stood back and agreed, the fight was worth it. After a quick lunch it was on to the rear. Just a normal axle flip with new perches and thankfully this truck is so nice that everything came apart super easy and went back together in the same way and the rear only took us an hour and a half or so. I decided that we weren’t going to set pinion angle and weld the perches today and that bit us in the *** because once we had everything back together and wanted to see our handiwork we rolled the truck out of my shop and I touch the gas and let the clutch out and the pumpkin rotated up and smacked the bed floor and locked up the u joint. ****. Luckily lifting with the floor jack on the nose of the diff rotated it back to non U joint killing territory and back in the shop it went after we took some pics. Remember when I said it was a good day? It was and I meant it because in my opinion the only thing cooler than a short wide Dodge is a lowered short wide Dodge and we succeeded. It’s 3” lower front and back and has just enough of the hood rat look I was after. The truck is far from perfect but today we made it perfect’er. Thanks for the help Chris.
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Credit to
@Turbo440Dart for the awesome pics.
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