Say I were to do the 3link/4link rear............I don't have the $$ right now to do the coilovers with it, assuming I could get taller coils, is it possible to keep essentially the stock coil/shock setup as it is?

I'm thinking 12" rear shock with some tall lift cruiser coils, and a custom coil keeper-inner (sorry, I'm minus the tech term for it right now).

yes? no? bacon?

 

Flygtenstein had a custom rear end with coils and shocks when he was IFS. Not sure how he did it, but it flexed really nice.

 

I thought about it a little more and I just figure I'll do the leaf swap eventually rather than deal with all that other crap.

 

check out ballistic fabrication, they have some real nice weld in coil keeper inners

http://www.ballisticfabrication.com/...ts_c_32-1.html

 

sweet hahaha

I see you're running rear cruiser coils....stock 5 link? How's that working?

 

Crappy. It's getting dual triangulated 4link and coilovers as soon as i pay off my new welder and plasma. Going to do the whole thing myself.

 

Keep in mind you're gonna have to move the gas tank, because IMHO it's dowright stupid to redo the links and not go triangulated to get rid of the panhard bar.

If you want to maintain/increase your ground clearance (particularly departure angle) this is going to mean a semi or full custom fuel cell setup, which is going to be several hundred dollars. If your concern is the cost of the coilovers, you might need to save up more to be able to do this project.

All that said, my gas tank is out of the way and I have been wondering the same thing ... I think the big issue will be whether the vertical separation at the axle is enough when you do longer links.

 

Fuel cell makes everything easier. I'm likely going to use the bluetorch fab truss and diff cover. It looks to me like it would have adequate vertical separation between the upper and lower links. If you push the lowers out and down you can get them low enough to get max vertical separation, and not be dragging the ends all the time since they are so close to the tires. Or if it comes down to it, make taller tabs to go on top of the diff. We'll see, I really don't know jack till I start piecing things together.