The Stupid Lowered Questions Thread

[ccreddell]

The other problem with a 2-link is that it tends to break axle housings. So its not the quality of your friends welding you have to worry about.....

 

[ccreddell]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Weld-On-Tri...Parts_Accessories&hash=item56609a0b24&vxp=mtr


im looking at something like this.

Id rather see you do a 3-link with bags on bars if your buddy and you can handle a little fab work.

 

[jhicks]

Id rather see you do a 3-link with bags on bars if your buddy and you can handle a little fab work.

why is that?

 

[ccreddell]

Easier to fab in your back yard. Unless you run your four link outside the frame you lose your gas tank. Not only that, but if you use the four link you showed above, you would need to run your bags on the axle. If you run them on heftier lower links you get twice the lift-but you cant run upper bars because of the bags. It rides better too. So a third link goes from the axle to the right of the gas tank and attaches to a (reinforced) gas tank crossmember.

 

[jhicks]

Easier to fab in your back yard. Unless you run your four link outside the frame you lose your gas tank. Not only that, but if you use the four link you showed above, you would need to run your bags on the axle. If you run them on heftier lower links you get twice the lift-but you cant run upper bars because of the bags. It rides better too. So a third link goes from the axle to the right of the gas tank and attaches to a (reinforced) gas tank crossmember.

Im still really new to bagged vehicles. what im going to do temporarily is lower it static with some helper bags in the rear so I can still throw something in the bed. (manually filled). until I can get everything to bag it.

so, im wanting a set up that I can still haul whatever. my wife already isn't happy im lowering a truck ha ha. that's why I decided to bag it.

 

[ccreddell]

No reason you cant haul with a lowered truck-bagged or not.

 

[jhicks]

No reason you cant haul with a lowered truck-bagged or not.

not lookin to bottom out over every bump. my truck already rides like a boat at times ha ha.

 

[ccreddell]

When I had my 93 ec lowered static at 5-7 I used some overload bags and put some stupidly heavy loads on it and after pumping up the bags, it ran level and never bottomed out. And it rode really well even unloaded. In fact I kept about 20lbs of air in the bags all the time because it rode better that way. I had bolt in notched too.

 

[jhicks]

When I had my 93 ec lowered static at 5-7 I used some overload bags and put some stupidly heavy loads on it and after pumping up the bags, it ran level and never bottomed out. And it rode really well even unloaded. In fact I kept about 20lbs of air in the bags all the time because it rode better that way. I had bolt in notched too.

that's my plan. the guy doing my notch makes his own notches. Im wanting as much as a notch as possible without cutting the bed, also without sacrificing strength.

 

[ccreddell]

The bolt in notches even require you to notch the bed support, so thats as far as you can go without intruding into the bed.