converting to trailing arm rear suspension and bags ?

[sweetk30]

thinking of doing home made trailing arms for a rear end swap for a project truck . its a 2wd C&C truck and was thinking of home made arms and mounts for bags . planning to use the stock front spring hangers if possible . add in a trac/panhard bar setup . i was thinking a pair of airbags off a med duty truck or bus setup .

this will be a road vehicle only . mostly intown or highway . no crazy stuff or flexing .

anyone got good / bad feedback on this ?

 

[ktmoutfront]

This is what I plan to do with the 48. But it will be off road as well as a freeway flyer.

 

[SpeedlabDan]

One of the best rear suspension setups in my humble opinion, there are aftermarket arms and panhard bars available with bag mounts on them already to save time and R&D. I actually just set up a buddy's '70 C10 last week for a utility body with air ride. There's not much too it and the aftermarket for the air setups is pretty vast. I can get more pics and info from what setups he's using if you need

 

[obijuank5]

With poquito triangulation it will handle excellent.

 

[kbclamper]

Check out hot rods to hell. They do after market trailing arm setups

 

[cheavyk10]

Have you ever checked out Dave Chappelle's work on Dirt Every Day? He did a great trailing arm suspension with the bags on the arms on Mom's Spaghetti (an F250). Seems to be his specialty.

 

[sweetk30]

Planning to do ut on the other 3500-HD truck i am building . So std replacment arms will be to small .

 

[rksjd8420]

Just use the whole air ride out of a single axle truck like a Freightliner. It is pretty much a bolt in.