thinking about SAS

[79bonanza]

well i have a 95 TBI silverado and i have used it as my daily driver but also wheel it alittle just when evryone else is hitting the mud holes and driving out in the fields you know nothing to serious.

the one thing that worries me is the front end is the weakest point of this truck and sometimes i believe im pushing the limits of my front end and ive already busted two cv axles, iv done a little research on the price of swaping in a solid axle and it would be just under 1400 dollars to swap every thing including shocks and springs but its not any real expensive parts.

i was wondering if a solid axle swaped truck rides or handles any better than a IFS truck with the torsion bars cranked up. im not looking for alot of lift maybe 4 or 5 inches just plan on running a dana 44 and 35's just to get a nice little mall crusier look

 

[Matt J.]

I like how this one turned out.

http://coloradok5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=267507

 

[dfl701]

check out pirate. theres alot of guys that have done it and you can get an idea of the different ways to do it. if you put some 52s up front it should ride pretty good

 

[Craig Artzner]

I initially thought this thread was going to be about "Semester at Sea" but then realized I was in the Garage...

 

[496truck]

I did a solid axle swap on an 89 S-10 blazer. This was with Jeep YJ axles and 33" tires and Toyota 4" lift leaf springs. The off road ability increased ten fold. The on road drivability only decreased marginally, no worse than if I had done a standard IFS lift. To be quite honest, I thought it drove more like a truck. The way it should have been from the factory.

pic whoring...

 

[79bonanza]

do you all know if i was close to the price it cost to swap a solid axle, i know i got the main pionts but theres always those few things that you dont think about

 

[496truck]

Like driveshaft modification? That's one I forgot about till it was all put together.

What about steering linkage? Did you figure that in?

Whatever the end price is to get it done, it will be just about what an IFS lift would have cost but WAY more capable.

 

[79bonanza]

yea i factored in cross over steering but i forgot about drivshafts do think the rear shaft can handle the angle of a 5 inch lift

 

[496truck]

With 5" of lift it sounds like you will be looking at a new/lengthened rear shaft. I ended up getting new shafts front and rear on mine but we're talking a much shorter wheelbase.

 

[79bonanza]

yea id be willing to run in two wheel drive befor i can get a front driveshaft but im hoping i can run the rear