mattman4x4
1/2 ton status
wow, I love that truck! Very nice wish mine was a crewcab.
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Now thats a HOT dually
- Thread starter DEMON44
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BIG UG
Registered Member
Gettin ready to build mine. Put it won't be pullin a jeep!!!
to keep the stock payload. after market leaf springs or shackle flips can significantly affect your towing capability
63chevyll
1/2 ton status
me thinks its juuuuuuuuuuuust right
DEMON44
Low-Tech Redneck
I think its perfect too, big trucks like that need to be proportionate to look good.
big duallies on stock tires look like a fat man on a tricycle. It just aint right.
big duallies on stock tires look like a fat man on a tricycle. It just aint right.
63chevyll
1/2 ton status
i would like to see a similar rig, but with the super singles
I read his build up a while back on another site and saved a bunch of pics. It's been my background for the last month or so. 
shovelbill80
1/2 ton status
oh i understand about the towing.....that's my thing, but with that torque, those height blocks and a little trailer weight i figured there'd be some wrap and a touch of sway. it's a beautiful rig......i'd think Alcans would be worth it. i'm not trying to nit pick the truck either, i'm just into suspensions.
Not trying to nitpick either. A block works just fine but would be cool to see something else back there on this caliber of a truck.
I hope my dually will look as cool as this one. Gonna be totally different though. I would rock this one all day long
DEMON44
Low-Tech Redneck
for instance. I have to have a block on my rear diff now.... forever. if I don't, my leaf spring will contact my brake calipers. so its just how it has to be. I'm not saying his is the same. but you never know if theres something else going there. Or maybe he wants a lift without banana springs. lots of new trucks infact I think almost all HD pickups have stock blocks.
y5mgisi
1 ton status
Myself personally, i would love to see it with the same style alcoa wheels in a 16" and with 36x12.5 super swamper TSL radials! Damn that thing is nice!
shovelbill80
1/2 ton status
forgive my inexperience with that type of setup, but how does a block keep the spring from hitting the caliper......i'm have trouble picturing that.
DEMON44
Low-Tech Redneck
I'll get a picture of it tommorrow if I can remember. But the D110 under the back of my truck is a dually diff, from under a 450/550 truck the frames are narrower. so I had to widen the perches to fit my truck. so much that the back edge of the caliper is almost directly behind the perch. so if there wasn't a lift block there, the spring would try and run right through where the piston of the caliper is residing. not by much mind you, but it won't go.
this pic is not very good. but if you can distinguish it, the top caliper bolt and the top inner corner of the piston, you can see sit right behind the block on my diff. So I can't bolt that diff to my springs without a block thats at least a couple inches tall.
this pic is not very good. but if you can distinguish it, the top caliper bolt and the top inner corner of the piston, you can see sit right behind the block on my diff. So I can't bolt that diff to my springs without a block thats at least a couple inches tall.
Yep and not just new trucks. My '94 2500 dodge has a factory lift block that's pretty good size out back.
shovelbill80
1/2 ton status
thanks Demon........that's probably why i couldn't picture it in my mind's eye, never even seen a rear/brake setup like that one.....i was only thinking of what i know. that sure is a setup though.
i'm glad i get to learn something new everyday, about the Dodge too.
i'm glad i get to learn something new everyday, about the Dodge too.
DEMON44
Low-Tech Redneck
It looks unusual because its a dually diff with an offset single on it, basically I super singled it. the inner dual would generally cover the caliper like any other dually.
