1972 f100 droping the front

Oh and how the hell do you post pics in here. id like to see more complete setups on these fords if there out there and show mine.

u gota use html to post pics. i beams are gay, clip it and be DONE.

Id agree with the clip it idea. If your building a driver or just a lightly custom truck Id go with the clip. However if your building a full on custom truck the clip to frame welded area would never look real great no matter how well you cover the areas.

If your wanting to use as much of the stock frame as possible, Id say the I-beam replacement would be the best bet. Its all about what you want to get out of the truck or what you are going to do with it.

HEY BAGGED 68? WHAT ARE YOU USING FOR UPPERARMS ON YOUR SETUP? I DON'T SEE ANY IN THE PICS?

Why dont you try to figure out a way to raise the spindles higher up the beams? I am sure with some ingenuity and some ball joint flipping or converting to kingpins with spacers or something, it could be done. The problem is that the beams will hang pretty low compared to before, but ground clearance is a problem you trying to achieve right?

And... the higher you make a beam go up, the more the arc of the radius pulls the tire back towards the firewall-Problem if you are running big wheels. So if you keep beams, even dropped ones, you may have to relocate radius arm mounts higher or lengthen the arms. I learned this from experience when I built a box Ranger that layed on 20's with beams. I fabbed up a cantliever(spellcheck please!)front set up that actually worked real well after months of frustration and cussing Fords and swearing I would never build a beam front Ford again. But now that I accomplished it, I would do it again because it had lots of lift, rode nice and velvety and turned out to be pretty easy once I figured it out.

or you could just quit screwing around and get a crosmember from fat man fabrication for this truck and the rest is bolt on mustang II.

just a thought, and really not that much.

I'm not real sure where you're buying your Fatman parts from but an M2 to go in one of these is high as hell and you still have to do quite a few mods to make it work.

trying to figure out this html, sorry

Edited: 6/10/2008 5:47:43 PM by dixiechopshop

This is my truck so far. She dont look like much,but as you can see I found her kinda rough. not to bad for a $250 truck. even got a 351 windsor.