b2600i project - TRASHED <-- New

[trashed]

diggin the name...lol

[paparoach1983]

looking good on the tail gate and i would come help but with no ride and living in tacoma i cant .lol

[beatmymini]

its not bad it just takes so long and i'm kinda impatient. that and i get really crazy about details and wanting perfection so it makes the whole process a little longer.

[beatmymini]

diggin the name...lol

i've used this name for my truck for a long time. it just kinda fits.

looking good on the tail gate and i would come help but with no ride and living in tacoma i cant .lol

no worries. hurry up and finish your truck and we can meet up a go on a cruise or something.

[mazdaman82]

hahaha ya i know what you mean...

[beatmymini]

so i went over to a friends house earlier this week to help him pull the motor out of his 510 and i ended up dropping the front of my truck a few inches. it looks sweet but my tires were too big and were rubbing the fenders pretty bad so i got some smaller ones and now i want to go a little lower. so my question is how do you reindex torsion bars and how exactly to you remove leaves? i saw some rivets on the leaf springs do i need to cut those off and they will come apart or is there another way of doing it? any help is great. thanks guys.

[beatmymini]

this is how much ground clearance i have in my driveway. you cant really tell very well but my cross member is about 2inches off the ground. its great!

[mazdaman82]

so what size tires you got on it now

[beatmymini]

i had 205/75 r14 on it up until yesterday but the side walls were too fat and they were a little too big so i bought some 195/70 r14 that are shorter and they have skinnier sidewalls so i'm not rubbing as bad as i was before. i also took the plastic inner fenders out so the tires dont hit that anymore either.

[mazdaman82]

there a little hard to find,and you may need to pick it up a little...but i found some 195/50/14s once...had them on the car,looked like skateboard wheels...lol but they are smaller...

[oldspice213]

just saw this for the first time nice work man keep it up

[beatmymini]

i was looking at some 185/65/14s nut they look super small and really goofy. i'm fine with these tires. they look pretty good and i just need to take corners and bumps slow so my fenders dont rub but whatever its not a big deal. i'm trying to find someone with a fender roller cause they baseball bat just isnt cutting it.

[mazdaman82]

haha ya its hard to roll them with out one

[beatmymini]

so i finally got a chance to do something with the truck today. i pulled 2 leafs out of my leaf springs and i took my 4" blocks out and replaced them with 2.5" blocks. the whole time i was putting the new blocks in i had my dad standing there telling me that they were wimpy blocks. before he sold his Isuzu pup he pulled the 2" blocks and put 4" ones on so he kept telling me that i should have just kept the 4" blocks. whatever he's just a crazy old man. now that the smaller blocks are on i was able to put the smaller tires on the rear. this thing looks so good now. after i took it off the jack stands my dads jaw dropped. it was awesome i lowered the jack and it just kept getting lower and lower. it was great. now it finally looks like a real lowered truck. the highest point of the frame is about 5" off the ground and the front cross member is only 3". its super sweet.enough of me talking here are some pics.

this is before i cranked the torsion bars.


this is after


this is right after i put the new spindles on and the 4" blocks


and this is how it sits now with the new tires and everything.

it looks much better.

[mazdaman82]

damn dude looking good