I love the progress on the ride!!!!

 

great progress... you gonna keep the reverse 4link

 

yeah i'm gunna keep it. it will help with fitment of the runner body.

however i HAVE noticed the axle lifting on acceleration from a stop in loose dirt. it feels like i have a small block in it the way the tires spin. while actually moving i haven't noticed anything too scary now that it's shocked.

since i'm not building it to drag race it's staying. i'm hoping the added weight of the runner helps with the spin. i wouldn't want a reverse in anything with power.

 

Nice set up you did there bro. Looking good man.

 

gotcha.... im sure itll be right if not youll cut it off till it is

 

You have a sweet project there dude!

You need to move to Canada so we can drink beers and bag my truck! Lol

Your welding is awsome!

 

thanks man. i'm pretty happy living down here in the heat! but bring it down and we'll do some welding. but i don't drink so it'll have to be some kool aid

 

Glad your doing a runner too cause your making me work faster to finish mine

 

the runner swap should start sometime after Bring The Noize which is on the 11-12th.

we're getting $6600 back on taxes which should be here in a couple days so i'm hoping to have the runner before the show and have it ready to pull of it's chassis.

as far as the links go the instant center is several feet behind the truck. i ride with the back up only about an inch and the bars are just below parallel. the main problem i see with the link is the lower tabs on the axle are mounted behind the uppers by about 2". it makes the pinion angle dive really bad at full lift, and the short uppers don't help much either.

but since i pretty much never have the back up it's not much of an issue for me. at ride height it rides and drives just about identical to my s10 that was static dropped 5". once i get the front lower controls triangulated and get some shocks on i'll really have no complaints about the ride. the front is just a bit bouncy right now.

 

Do you have a shot of the truck aired all the way up?

Been thinking of baggin my runner as well...

 

picked up the victim yesterday! 91 sr5 with a blown 3.slow liter

 

ya buddy. nicefind

 

Nice looks clean,

 

Like I said on fb man good thing you got all your interior besides a few.little pieces. Get ready to cut a lot of floor where your gas tank goes. **** I had to cut a lot for link bars

 

worked on this today

here is a quick pic of when i picked up the runner lol



i tore down the 89 pickup and removed the fuel vent line, the extra line to the bspv, and all the cab and bed mounts as well as random old brackets.











then i got the runner all disconnected from it's chassis and pulled it. was fun by myself with only a cherry picker for help lol

lifted off the 4x4 chassis



rolled the bagged chassis under it



got it bolted down at the core support. still gotta cut the body mounts of the runner chassis and weld them to the truck frame, as well as cut out the rear floor for the suspension to come thru.

 

Dang bro the runner would look sik that high in the air.... LOL.. Man your moving along pretty fast on this. Its going to look sik when your done with it.

 

Looking great already!

 

Nice progress! Reminds me of my runner minus the lowering haha