cr@ves4wheelin

So today was a perfect day to go behind the dorm and work on my truck.

Here are the Blazeland Shock hoops that I will use for my coilover conversion



This Shock hoops are 3/4 bolt on.

I installed the pieces the shock hoops bolted on too. Everything torqued to specs and thread locked of course.



Here is a mock up of what they'll look like on the truck

Driver side


The Passenger side fender well has a bulge that is under the "charcoal canister? " (i I think). But there is enough room to hammer it in to fit the shock hoop.

Passenger side



Here is what needs to be welded on to the frame. (after sanding the frame of course)



That's all for today, I'm seeing if a friend on another forum who also live in Chico can help me out. I would do it, if I didn't have just a Harbor Freight welder, and if my angle grinder didn't break. May or may not be done soon, but we'll see.

crazytoyota4x4

Subscribed! This is probably the route ill be going in a month or two, once I buy the blazeland kit again.

4x4YOTA

iTrader: (2)

Truck looks great I want to get an IFS truck and build it like this

LGcrawler

this is wat i want to do, was thinkin sas but your build makes me want to blazeland again haha. if you dont mind me asking how much were the shock hoops?

cr@ves4wheelin

Thanks guys

The shock hoops are $399 + tax + shipping, he has added a shock hoop page on his website.

LGcrawler

ya sorry saw that right after i sent that post my bad..lookin real solid tho man

polycrack

I have been doing alignment for a few years now and on the Hunter DSP 400 you MUST use all four heads to do alignment, you can't use just two. On the older equmint you can use two heads as i've done at another shop.
I belive even with the differnce you can still use all four head cuz the heads can see when toes out 3 deg.
Or you can do what I did and use 3" spacers on the back and it's square again

cr@ves4wheelin

Thanks to my friend, the shock hoops and tabs have been welded up like a pro.











So, I would be done, but I ordered the wrong coils for my coilover. It looks like it'll be a close fit, I may have to grind the upper control arm, but i don't know yet.

Bojangles

This is looking sick.

Love the fenders and the blazeland conversion.
How much did it cost you?

Not something im typically interested in doing with my truck, im more of an SAS guy, But i love your rig!

cr@ves4wheelin

Thanks man

Including Shipping and Handling.....
Blazeland Kit: $942.82
Hanneman Fiberglass Fenders: $521.00

cr@ves4wheelin

Even though I have the wrong coils I decided to put them in to see if anything would obstruct them. It's really close to the upper control arm, I could get away with not grinding it, but I'll probably grind it a little bit. The coilover looks like it'll almost bottom out even with bump stops, but I won't know until I cycle it all the way when the torsion bars are out.

LGcrawler

are those the FOA 10 inch coilovers? also what springs are you goin to run?

cr@ves4wheelin

They are FOA 8" coilovers.

For the coil springs I could go either

3" OD x 16" x 500-600 lbs coil

or I could go dual rate since I have the hardware

Upper Spring
3" OD x 6" x 400 lbs

Main Spring

3" OD x 10" x 600 lbs (which I currently have)

LGcrawler

Very nice. Let me know how those coils handle. If I go blazeland I'll probably go that route too

BlazeN8

Looks good! The clearance between the coil spring and the UCA does look really close. I would suspect that at full stuff things are going to hit. I built your hoops off a fixture that cleared with the Sway-A-Way Shocks! Anyway, if you find something does hit when you cycle the suspension let me know and I will make some adjustments. You can trim the UCA yourself or I can do it for you and send you an exchange set of clearanced UCAs.

Example: One configuration I trimed off the excess material from the UCA so I could use a stock SR-5 15x7 rim with a 4-5/8" backspace and a 33x12.50R15 tire. This setup had acceptable tire and coil spring clearance at full stuff with steering wheel turned to full lock left or right. This shouldn't be a problem with your aftermarket rim / tire combo.

cr@ves4wheelin

Got my new coils today! They are Eibachs 3" OD 16" x 600lbs. So I went and bought myself a Dewalt angle grinder to grind down the A-arms to fit the coilover. Surprisingly, the coil as more space when the arm is drooped down, not when it's up.



Then I jacked the truck up and put the coilovers in.



Control arm clearance



Ride height with coilover and torsion bars still in lol. Truck is not jacked up.



After that, called some places til I found a shop to fill my shocks with nitrogen. I drove very carefully trying not to damage the new shocks over to Honda motorcycles where they filled for $10 per shock. When I got back, I removed the old shocks then went on to the PITA torsion bars. As if removing the bolts weren't hard enough, taking out the torsion bars out of the control arm is just as bad. I had to wiggle (a.k.a shake the crap out of them while pulling) till they finally came out. So now my truck is currently sitting at the pretty much the same ride height as it was, which I was hoping for.





Reservoir held in with hose clamps



One thing that you guys who might be doing the same thing is you should opt for the 90 degree hose fitting to the reservoir. At full turn, if your tires get enough up-travel they will hit the hose. As for the brake lines, I zip-tied them to the control arm to keep them away from the coil. Since the arms go down with the rotor, so will the the brake lines. It may not be necessary, but gave me peace of mind. I think that's about it. No more of the back breaking work of adjusting torsion bars. No more, oh dang, the adjusting bolt for the torsion bars broke on a Sunday when no stores are open. NO MORE, drawing pictures of what my truck would look like with coilovers on the front lol. Thanks to everybody who helped me with this build. BlazeN8, my friend Ryan for welding, ORW and FOA for shipping all the stuff I needed so fast. Also my Dad who started it all by handing the truck down to me. I've learned so much and it's not over yet haha.

cr@ves4wheelin

Oh and here's a pic of the brake line being held up for those who were wondering.

LGcrawler

those turned out soo sick man

cr@ves4wheelin

Thanks man, I was so beat after doing all that in the sun. It was like 80 degrees out there, I got a nice tan though lol.

LGcrawler

haha ya i bet, quick question man. what lift are you running in the rear?