NEED HOW TO PICS FOR BODY DROPPIN A B2200

sooooo..... do a stock floor and tradiotional? That seems a little counter intuitive. I was irritated enough when I had to notch my front floorboards slightly because I wasnt aggressive enough with where I cut the original framerails off, I cant imagine completing all that frame work just to turn around and cut up the floor the length of the rails.

why not cut the top and bottom of the original framerail and slide the new 2x3 through to give a .5 inch stickout on the bottom side? once you weld in the bottom side and drop the mounts, you can cut the excess off the top of the original rail. That way you still have the benefit of keeping the original rail without all that sheetmetal work to the floors.

Originally posted by Russ-D



sooooo..... do a stock floor and tradiotional? That seems a little counter intuitive. I was irritated enough when I had to notch my front floorboards slightly because I wasnt aggressive enough with where I cut the original framerails off, I cant imagine completing all that frame work just to turn around and cut up the floor the length of the rails.

why not cut the top and bottom of the original framerail and slide the new 2x3 through to give a .5 inch stickout on the bottom side? once you weld in the bottom side and drop the mounts, you can cut the excess off the top of the original rail. That way you still have the benefit of keeping the original rail without all that sheetmetal work to the floors.

Cutting off the top and bottom at the same time doesn't seem like it would hold its shape as well as something shaped like angle iron. However, I don't see the difference between laying a piece of 2x3 in the frame and Z'ing it a 1/2", versus doing it your way of spacing the stock frame up a 1/2" and building the Z into the frame. Its no different really. It would also be the same to me to cut 1/2" off the bottom of the cross member. Theres enough room to do it. Thats what I did with the Mazda, I cut the cross member down and plated it with 3/16" plate and it laid flat.

Also I wouldn't consider my floor mods a traditional bodydrop. It was much less work IMO. It took me about a day to build the whole floor. I made the panels large so that I could incorporate them into raiding the transmission tunnel 2.5 inches. It didn't need to be done, but made more sense than building a 3/4" channel over the framerails, and then raising the tunnel. It was much easier to put two brakes in a large piece of sheetmetal and weld it in place. It took all of 8 hours to complete.

Also I did not have to rework the floor the entire length of the framerails, just where the floor dips down below your feet to about 2" above the rockers. I could have stock floored the truck to the pinch without cutting the floor at all, which seems the same as a Mazda. However I think a Mazda could be done the same way without cutting the floor at all, just by looking underneath one. I wanted to try it, but the owner wouldn't spring for it.

I don't see how its hard to understand, no offense. I see it as being pretty much identical as a 3/4 frame aside from the fact that 40% of the stock frame is still there. I see it as being the same amount of drop. And if you don't have room to store a cab, or a flat surface to build a nice frame on, its relatively easy.

you dont understand how I dont understand the same way I dont understand why you wouldnt just cut off all the frame instead of trying so hard to keep it.

most of us, me included, dont have access to a big sheetmetal brake. Most if us, me included, would rather weld big thick pieces of steel instead of thin little sheetmetal. I guess my main problem comes with stockflooring a truck and then having to do essentially the same thing as a traditional bodydrop to the floor, just to save the 20 minutes of locating and lowering bodymounts. I didnt have an uber flat surface to build a frame, so I built a jig and leveled it, took all of 20 minutes. The cab stood up in the corner on its back, I didnt even pull the ac or the interior.

we arent all seth. for those that are seth, congrats, but saying it isnt a lot of work for you and therby shouldnt be a lot of work for everyone else is awfully capricious, given your level of experience and the tools you have access to.

So congrats on getting it done in 8 hours, hope you get the chance to do a mazda soon and you can show everyone including me just how fast your way is. But for me, who had a chop saw, a sawzall and a welder, and of course 6 friends to lift the cab off, I'll keep suggesting to cut the frame off and build new.

I never meant to insult you Russ. I was simply trying to provide other options. I never said it wasn't a lot of work, because it is. And I really don't have very many tools. I too have a chop saw, sawzall, welder, and a cheap plasma cutter, thats about it. I, however, don't have 6 friends that would help lift a cab off a truck. And I do not have a brake, I did it by hand, with clamps and angle iron. I was simply defending the way I did this because it felt to me like you were attacking the way I did it because I had to cut the floor. Theres no way around it with a 2" tall floorboard.

I wasnt insulted, just explaining that when you talk about something being easy, you might want to make sure its not only easy to you.

a stockfloor isnt much more work compared to a traditional, except maybe on an s10 where you have to work the front floor and driveline tunnel. But doing one you want to make sure that you are not wasting your time. To do a stockfloor, then have to modify the floor however slightly, then have to potentially modify the front crossmember too, just seems overly complicated. I am not suggesting my way is the only way either, just that yours has the potential for more extraenneous work that could be avoided by planning ahead.

I used two scrap pieces of box to break over a gas tank bulge on the back wall of my current truck, if that was truely easy to you, you have my respect because for me that sucked. A lot. Ask anyone who knows me, I still complain about it, and the first 700 extra I get I am buying a brake.

(why is brake spelled brake? breakover is spelled break, and you arent really stopping anything)