Folks, I have managed to let my mouth outrun my knowledge.......again.
I have some friends who run a wrecker service. The owner's oldest son is in the process of doing some mods to his Chevy truck.
He has put on some fairly tall tires, added a body lift I think, and done some kind of suspension work.
I was doing some electronics work in the office while he and his father were discussing his truck.
His problem is mainly rear tire clearance. I don't have all the details yet, but I wanted to get a thread started here so I could have some info to take to them tomorrow and get an idea of what questions to ask.
They were discussing blocks. I think he took the factory blocks out and put in some slightly taller ones.
Now, he was wanting to go up an inch or so, but neither of them liked the idea of the blocks he had, much less higher ones.
Having hung out here, I spoke up with the standard suggestion.
Shackle flip.
They both looked at me. His father had an idea of what I was talking about, but wanted to know more.
I suddenly realized I was stumped. I had a pretty good idea of what they were, but no idea of how to explain them.
Never put one on in my life.
Told them to google it. When I saw ORD, I told them it was a good place to get the parts.
Almost immediately ran into another problem.
There are 2 inch, and 4 inch shackle flips. While they were looking at that, I piped up with the idea of adding a zero rate if they needed another inch or so.
That got me another strange look. I told them to check out the ORD site, or come here and do a search.
Fortunately some work stuff came in, and I cleared out before I had to answer more questions.
But I will be going back tomorrow, so I need to get some more info.
I realize that there are no hard and fast answers, and I have not given enough information for even some good guesses, but........
Say he gets a 4 inch shackle flip. That will, in theory, move the back end of the rear spring down about 4 inches from where it is now.
About how much clearance would that translate at the tires/axle?
I know a 1 inch zero rate will give about an inch, since its at the axle, but I figure the flip will give less than its rated.
Or, is the 4 inch rating measured at the axle?
I am trying to get both of them on here. The son would learn a lot, and his father is catching the bug.
He used to do some serious mods and has a fairly impressive mud truck sitting in his lot.
But, he owns an older stock Blazer, and is thinking about getting the fever again. He is already talking about one tons front and back, maybe a big block, and 44 inch tires.......
Any suggestions, questions I need to get the answers to, or just general info I can take with me tomorrow will help.
I threw ORD in the mix, because I am trying to get him to buy from them as they are online here, and I was hoping Chris might chime in also.
Thanks
I have some friends who run a wrecker service. The owner's oldest son is in the process of doing some mods to his Chevy truck.
He has put on some fairly tall tires, added a body lift I think, and done some kind of suspension work.
I was doing some electronics work in the office while he and his father were discussing his truck.
His problem is mainly rear tire clearance. I don't have all the details yet, but I wanted to get a thread started here so I could have some info to take to them tomorrow and get an idea of what questions to ask.
They were discussing blocks. I think he took the factory blocks out and put in some slightly taller ones.
Now, he was wanting to go up an inch or so, but neither of them liked the idea of the blocks he had, much less higher ones.
Having hung out here, I spoke up with the standard suggestion.
Shackle flip.
They both looked at me. His father had an idea of what I was talking about, but wanted to know more.
I suddenly realized I was stumped. I had a pretty good idea of what they were, but no idea of how to explain them.
Never put one on in my life.
Told them to google it. When I saw ORD, I told them it was a good place to get the parts.
Almost immediately ran into another problem.
There are 2 inch, and 4 inch shackle flips. While they were looking at that, I piped up with the idea of adding a zero rate if they needed another inch or so.
That got me another strange look. I told them to check out the ORD site, or come here and do a search.
Fortunately some work stuff came in, and I cleared out before I had to answer more questions.
But I will be going back tomorrow, so I need to get some more info.
I realize that there are no hard and fast answers, and I have not given enough information for even some good guesses, but........
Say he gets a 4 inch shackle flip. That will, in theory, move the back end of the rear spring down about 4 inches from where it is now.
About how much clearance would that translate at the tires/axle?
I know a 1 inch zero rate will give about an inch, since its at the axle, but I figure the flip will give less than its rated.
Or, is the 4 inch rating measured at the axle?
I am trying to get both of them on here. The son would learn a lot, and his father is catching the bug.
He used to do some serious mods and has a fairly impressive mud truck sitting in his lot.
But, he owns an older stock Blazer, and is thinking about getting the fever again. He is already talking about one tons front and back, maybe a big block, and 44 inch tires.......
Any suggestions, questions I need to get the answers to, or just general info I can take with me tomorrow will help.
I threw ORD in the mix, because I am trying to get him to buy from them as they are online here, and I was hoping Chris might chime in also.
Thanks
