Yah sometime I wish I would have stayed 1/2 ton, but then I remember how many outers and ball joints I replaced.
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JT monster truck
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Yah sometime I wish I would have stayed 1/2 ton, but then I remember how many outers and ball joints I replaced.
Yep.. big tires need big axles. It's all a give and take.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
This thing is retarded lol!!
Got her buttoned up, still a couple lingering things but all is minor.
Did the roost around the block to shake things loose.
I've never driven a step side before, this truck has a 465 and what sounds like 7 cylinders but damn does it run good for just that.
Scoots the boot down a dirt road like nobody's business!! The rear needs a lot of help but overall this is a ton of fun, a donut machine, light on its feet, flickable. Point and shoot, I bet this would shred in the dunes honestly.
I absolutely love what I do, there has been nights we're scott and I absolutely destroy ourselves just to get one of these trucks finished and every time it's completely worth it.
I wholeheartedly believe that this is the single best modification someone could do to any squarebody, you can take a dang near stock truck like this and turn it into a pile of fun that doesn't break for a decent price!
Good night guys! We'll be meeting up with Matt Kime tommorow to shred around the dez and continue to shake it down to make sure shock valving is going to work, right now I still think the rebound is a little slow but getting some video will confirm that or not. Onward and upward!
Got her buttoned up, still a couple lingering things but all is minor.
Did the roost around the block to shake things loose.
I've never driven a step side before, this truck has a 465 and what sounds like 7 cylinders but damn does it run good for just that.
Scoots the boot down a dirt road like nobody's business!! The rear needs a lot of help but overall this is a ton of fun, a donut machine, light on its feet, flickable. Point and shoot, I bet this would shred in the dunes honestly.
I absolutely love what I do, there has been nights we're scott and I absolutely destroy ourselves just to get one of these trucks finished and every time it's completely worth it.
I wholeheartedly believe that this is the single best modification someone could do to any squarebody, you can take a dang near stock truck like this and turn it into a pile of fun that doesn't break for a decent price!
Good night guys! We'll be meeting up with Matt Kime tommorow to shred around the dez and continue to shake it down to make sure shock valving is going to work, right now I still think the rebound is a little slow but getting some video will confirm that or not. Onward and upward!
Yes sir just about, we have some adjustment, around 3 inches or so up or down, this is about max for this spring rate 200/300
We hung out with Matt Kime today, hes a buddy of mine and was gracious enough to help us out with a bad u joint and mounting limit straps up.
We've been working with Matt on this new build of his, he's lost a bunch of weight so the springs and valving is pretty stiff. We got a couple good short shake down runs, the truck ran good and zero issues to report. The rear is really stiff and buckboard like but I'll leave it up to the owner to decide how to proceed with that.
Here's a few shots from our runs.
good lookin stepside
Matt's truck is one bad motherf*cker
Matt's truck is one bad motherf*cker
It was pretty funny how far ahead he was on these trails, the rear of this truck compared to his is a joke..
he's probably has a little more skinny pedal under his foot too.
Yea 6.0 LS helped that area out.
Hey guys I made a walk around of the suspension on this truck!
Cool vid. Do you guys normally run 200/300 for spring rate?
No we've bounced around trying to figure out what the rate should be. we tried 200/400, 250/300, and 200/350 all of which ended up with near zero preload which is bad, or the ride heights we're too high. This truck has 3 inches of preload and we can adjust the ride height. Exactly what we wanted. We've found the trucks are a decent amount lighter than blazers up front for obvious reasons. Which makes this harder.
I'm starting with 250/300. We shall see how that works.
Nice works of works!
Yea if your heavier it'll be good and shorter travel usually ends up higher rate. The way I check to know if I picked it right is to set the springs with zero preload and see where that ends up compared to my projected ride height. If it's within 2-3 inches and I can make that up with less than 4 inches of preload it's right. If not the rate is too high. 1:1 is very spring sensitive.
For comparison do you know how much a leaf sprung wheel moves between bump, ride height, and droop? Keep up the great work!
The leaf trucks usually have a 7-9 inch shock, now I don't know that I've ever seen one that travels that much with either a stock spring or lift. Ethel's leaf spring setup would travel about 5 inches.. stock..
Sorry, I meant how much does the wheel move forward and back as the leaf spring compresses?
