tre5
+1y
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TuckingLugs05 said:
gonna be sick ...but he cant raise the mounts to much unless he wants to lose alot of the rear floor for the seats
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I guess it's a toss up in your mind... a well functioning suspension, or a back seat... I'll take the suspension design, you can have your back seat.
Anyway... I put my suggestions in my first response. I would definitely change the way it is setup. If the back seat is a concern, there are ways to work around it. The seat could be narrowed or raised or both... I'm not sure what your floor is like. Your lower link needs to be closer to where the upper link is mocked up in that picture. What is strange to me is that you have this huge contraption hanging off the side of your frame and then just put some tabs on it, not to mention the tabs are way longer than they need to be.It's your truck and you do whatever you like, I'm just trying to help you out.
TuckingLugs05 said:
gonna be sick ...but he cant raise the mounts to much unless he wants to lose alot of the rear floor for the seats
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I guess it's a toss up in your mind... a well functioning suspension, or a back seat... I'll take the suspension design, you can have your back seat.
Anyway... I put my suggestions in my first response. I would definitely change the way it is setup. If the back seat is a concern, there are ways to work around it. The seat could be narrowed or raised or both... I'm not sure what your floor is like. Your lower link needs to be closer to where the upper link is mocked up in that picture. What is strange to me is that you have this huge contraption hanging off the side of your frame and then just put some tabs on it, not to mention the tabs are way longer than they need to be.It's your truck and you do whatever you like, I'm just trying to help you out.
mindlissmetalfab
+1y
That rear suspension geometry is jacked. Couple suggestions. Build your rear suspension at ride height or half travel, not laid out. That way your pinion angle will be set at the proper height, and also with a parallel set up, your going to want your watts link or panhard level at half travel.
I generally keep lower links level with the ground at ride height. Uppers should angle down a degree or 2. towards the front. Those mounts look really hokey and thrown together and if you add those tabs on the top its gonna start getting sloppier imo. I agree with everything jeremy said about that mount and long tabs. Its really looking as a figure it out as you go kind of build, and with any full chassis build, I'd be spending a considerable amount of time at the drawing board before cutting any steel.
I'd look at going with a longer lower tab on the axle, which will help correct the angle a bit, without losing seat space. With a big rim you have lots of room to go with a long lower tab. Also it looks like your upper link bar is going to hit the axle tube laid out?
I generally keep lower links level with the ground at ride height. Uppers should angle down a degree or 2. towards the front. Those mounts look really hokey and thrown together and if you add those tabs on the top its gonna start getting sloppier imo. I agree with everything jeremy said about that mount and long tabs. Its really looking as a figure it out as you go kind of build, and with any full chassis build, I'd be spending a considerable amount of time at the drawing board before cutting any steel.
I'd look at going with a longer lower tab on the axle, which will help correct the angle a bit, without losing seat space. With a big rim you have lots of room to go with a long lower tab. Also it looks like your upper link bar is going to hit the axle tube laid out?
Jcfreeman0
+1y
The axle tabs pictured arent what I was going to use. Nor is that upper link in the picture. I havent even built the uppers yet. They were just there so I could get a feel for what it would look like. I was going to build longer lower tabs to help with the geometry but now I'm considering cutting it all off and starting over. I'm now considering moving the lower links to inside the frame and running two small tabs on top of that crossmember. Then run the upper links on the outside but bend them to mount onto some sort of mount on top of the frame rail (gapping the links it so the instant center line is around the bumper at ride height)
HanSolo
+1y
Awesome, another square body diesel build, and in my neck of the woods no less! Keeping my eyes on this one!
kezark31
+1y
sik build i have a 5 that i swaped a cumins in love it! here is the build on it still got a lot left to do this is my dd so makes it kinda hard to do some things.
http://c10forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10218
http://c10forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=10218
