BabyYouWish
+1y
Max I apologize if I am stepping on your toes on this, but I do have a small amount of knowledge to throw out there.
First of all check with your insurance company to make sure that your vehicle will still be covered once you cut your frame! I know of a few big-name companies that will DROP YOU immediatley, if they find out that you have cut into your frame without telling them. So please find out if your new suspension will void your insurance!
Once you are assured that they will cover you, be sure to take pictures along the way of everything you do (including cutting/notching the frame)and give those and an itemized list of parts and prices to your insurance company. DON'T FORGET RECEIPTS! If you do the work yourself, make up a time sheet of all of the hours you have into your frame.
I'm lucky enough to be riding with Nationwide and they said that as long as I had pictures of everything and all of my receipts I would be covered. (Of course, it bumped my payments up $25 a month for $50,000 worth of "custom vehicle insurance" but I think its worth it.
I have had a friend who was involved in an accident that was not their fault and when the insurance company sent out their estimator, he saw that the frame had been modified and they couldn't give him a dime. They say that if the vehicle was stock it wouldn't have been affected the way it was. I think its b.s. but you never know. So he was stuck paying it off and having to try to buy another vehicle all on his own.
So moral of the story, double check with your insurance company before you break out the welder...
(No I'm not an insurance guy, but I want to see as many slammed trucks on the street cruising as possible)