body lift = body/frame flex?

[protechk5]

Wouldnt just just adding 2 or 3 beefy ass crossmembers be better than boxing in the frame anyways?

 

[protechk5]

ha and now theres no way im getting ur front springs james

 

[colbystephens]

i'd suspect that it would work, but perhaps you'd have driveline clearance issues that way?

 

[gmc4cw]

are both of you still running the sway bar?

If you are going to box the frame you need to do the entire frame. it's alot of work. replace all the rivets with grade 8 bolts and you will cut down on frame flex some. riveted frames are designed to flex. the stiffest you could make that frame would be to replace all the crossmembers with tubing and box it. but then you would need decent springs.

basically its a combination of a lot of things, every thing you improve will lessen your frame flex.

 

[colbystephens]

interesting - never thought about how rivits would affect the frame flex. i suspect that's because a rivit is essentially hot worked, and thus is not as stiff as what i assume to be a cold-worked frame?

 

[muddybuddy]

i forgot, the guy before me got the brackets to keep the sway bar i forgot that i hadnt had a chance to take it off yet

 

[colbystephens]

oops! try it again!

 

[muddybuddy]

oops! try it again!

i know, i completely forgot some people actually like swaybars the brackets will be forsale soon

 

[Stump-a-holic]

My 3/4 ton long bed with a 6 suspension and 3 body will flex like that too. Its not that the body lift is causing the flex, its that it becomes more apparent with the body lift because there is a leverage effect going on.

 

[mrdrinksalil]

All of our frames are going to flex usless you've boxed it or built a cage that attaches to the frame. Most of our rigs would lose quite a lot of suspension travel if we completely eliminated frame flex. The benifit to no flex in the frame is that suspension travel would become more predictable. Your truck would feel a lot more "tight" and predictable. As long as your frame isn't ripping the body mounts out of the cab or developing cracks, it really isn't an issue. If you're building a rig thats going to see a lot of extreme flex (rocks) you might wanna stiffin the frame and what not, but by then you'd want 4link suspension and coilovers anyway.

 

[colbystephens]

My 3/4 ton long bed with a 6 suspension and 3 body will flex like that too. Its not that the body lift is causing the flex, its that it becomes more apparent with the body lift because there is a leverage effect going on.

hmmmm... now i realize what was meant when someone else referred to it as leverege - tho i wouldn't describe it as leverage. yeah, the body lift will help to augment the visual aspect of the frame flex, but doesn't contribute to it.