well after reading through some posts on welding i guess im not going to attempt my notch,4linf and bag set up on my own!!!!! i was gonna jump in with both feet and do it over the winter but my welding skills are minimal.....and the saftey facter keeps comming into play and i dont wanna hurt my self or anyone else on the road..lol...so the new plan is
i am going to do a stock floor body drop im gonna cnotch my frame but im gonna use a 4 inch pipe cut in half for a lil more axle travel and do a ball joint flip....im just gonna run my air shocks for now and im going with the main leaf with the second leaf flipped upside down ontop of the main
ok ill go checkit out ..im in no way giving up dev just putting it on hold until i get some welding under my belt......i figure the body drop i can handle..lol
I think you need to start out on a c notch or something small man before just jumping into a body drop. Or get some little pieces or steel and test them on there this is what I did before I ever thought about welding anything serious and it helped alot and I knew I could trust my welds
im pretty good at sheet metel welding ...body panels and such that i could handle im 100% confident in that but dont wanna take on structal stuff until im 100% sure i can pull it off....dont get me wrong it WILL get done i have three frames to play with and practice on..they were going to the scrapper anyhow so ill just keep them around for crash test dummies so to speak
A stock floor bodydrop requires welding the frame???? unless you are going to chanel the body like they did back in the day... I would do a notch long before a stock floor.
When you do a stock floor bd you basically make a new frame that fits under your cab... or hack up the existing frame so your cab and the bottom of the frame is flush (not recomended)... I dont know how you would do that with out welding...???
i want to cut the floor back of cab fierwalls drop the cab and reweld everything back up with filler plate.....sud i was talking about frame welding sheet metel isnt a problem