Thats awesome! Im gonna do some wheein this weekend at my folks house in Royalton, You and lee are more than welcome to come cruse around too.

 

man id love to, but my pops is coming up to help me work on the shop. My weekend are basically gone for the rest of the fall trying to get the work done. I def want to come check out your place sometime. Wheeling!!

 

I got my fuel tank changed out and in the process I broke another rusted line up under the passenger side that will be addressed later.

And I started my chevy spring swap

Old parts out:




Skys kit with ubolt flip and new bushings:


Mock up:


Ill tack them in some night this week and hopefully have them burned in by next weekend to measure for shocks. I have some tender spots in the frame I need to address while I have the the welder out too.

 

looking good man! im sure you will use the chevies to their max... enjoy!!

 

nice 63s. im looking at doing the same once i get over to my friends place. he has a set on a parts truck i can i have. how far forward is the front hanger? im thinking of running double shackles just in case i wanna go back to stock for whatever reason

 

My front hanger will be about 9" forward. Keeping the stock 122" wheel base for now.

Just dont cut the stock shackle hanger off. Im not a fan of the double shackle. They really do unload horribly going down steep drops.

 

Front hanger 9" forward. We needed to drill out the front hanger for the larger bolt.


Playing with shackle angles. Rears are not tacked in yet, And thats not the final angle. I think in the end, the rear hanger will only be moved 2 inches back from stock.


And didnt get as much done as I wanted to because the drive shaft was frozen. Wouldn't move either way, so it got the heat and beat.

 

i wanna see how much lift you have now. let see them finished pictures. my runner i think will be a little different. i found online that i need to go 11 inches forward and 4 inches back. did the skys kit come with the flip u bolt kit too?

 

Final shackle angle. Rear mount is about 2" back from stock.


Ride height.


Then a little handy work with the gas axe and we had the bed off






Now I can get at the spring hangers better to fully weld them in address my rusty frame. The bed isnt going back on. Ill be making some sort of small flat bed, or something like the old all pro bed kits.

 

thanks. and that bed looks like he needed to go. it has taken a beating

 

Such a beautiful truck, man! Those chevies make it look killer. MORE!!!

 

Wow, the Rattlewagon never ceases to be pushed into "MORE, MORE, I WANT MORE FROM IT" realms! hahaha... NICE! X2, the sky's kit looks solid/VERY much so.

How you been, man?

 

What a great shop. You suck.

 

Yeah I know, Haha. Its nice to have that much heated space to work in.

Toyo- So I think I ended up with about 2-3" of lift, just as all the faqs says I should. Could probably get a little more with a steeper shackle angle. I bought the kit second hand, and it already had the ubolts with it, so I think they were from sky?

The bed would go back on if it wasnt so rusty. I dont mind the dents, but it has several large holes in it as well as the bedframe is rotting off of the actual bed.

 

Cutting out the bad spots, and pulled a hand full of mouse nest. Yuck.





I will be plating the inside from the front spring hanger to just past the bumpstop, and putting a thicker pipe across where the factory tank mount would be.

 

fun fun rust holes

 

I stripped down my donor rear axle to replace the rusty one currently in the truck. It will get some TG axle armor before it goes in. (no pic yet)

Finished getting the rust out of the frame... compressed air and gravity cleaned it all out.





And cutting frame plates with the nibbler:

 

Frame plates cleaned up and tacked on.





Merry Christmas!

 

sweet frame work. should be ready for anything now. happy holidays