It's going through it's second rebuild right now with one ton chevy axles, 52" rear K5 springs up front, and 56" suburban springs in the rear. It will be running a 345 engine, TF727 tranny, D20, 4.56 gears and 36" tires. It was previously all stock with a SOA, 3.07s, 31s and a welded front diff. It did fairly well, but I had the parts laying around and wanted to take it a step further.
This past weekend I got both rear springs mounted. They were very close to the same length as the stock springs, so all I had to do was make the front mounts wider and build new shackles for the rear. The chevy springs moved the rear axle back 2" from stock.
I still need to move the spring perches, hook up brake lines, build shock mounts and do something to the driveshaft. With weight on the springs the top of the truck comes to just below my shoulder (I am 6'3).
I'm not planning to extend the frame if I dont have to. I know they are good for about 4" of lift on a chevy, dont know about the scout yet. They APPEAR to have about as much arch as the scout springs, but I havent layed them side by side yet.
The rear scout spring's arch was close to the chevy 56s.
I am going to extend the frame. The chevy springs are about 10" longer, which would put the rear mount just behind the body mount. They will also move the axle foward about 3" if I leave the rear mount in the same location, which I plan to do.
Extending the frame will give me plenty of room to mount a winch anyway.
I take the laptop out into the garage and show it pics of the trail rides all the time.... so far it's content to just look at them and doesn't actually want to go on any.
I have no idea how wide it is. It came out of a single rear wheel 81 K30.
I have about 9" of clearance under the diff. housing, that's about an inch more than I had before with the 31s and D44s. I'm going to shave it eventually. I'm also getting some 36" swampers this weekend which might give me a little more clearance since they are probably slightly taller.
It should be 69" wide since it's from an SRW truck. Your Scout looks like it's backing away from that blue EB in disgust! Of course, it also looks like the EB is using the floor jack to :flipoff2: your Scout!
so the last picture on page 3 is with the wider axles on them??
thats 67" width on the rear?
and what on the front??
and what backspacing??
i have a 64" wide D61 for the rear and didn't want to run it for wheel coverage legal issues--but im sure i can get away and cover what you got sticking out there in taht pic
so the tire would stick out ~3" farther on each side (porvinding same rim, same tire).
Should be easy enough to cover with a flare or something. What are the laws you have to comply with??
The axles in the pictures *should* be 69" in the front, and 67" in the rear... other factors would be tire size and width, and wheel size, width and back-spacing.
hey 4XFreak, re-edit the pictures at the start of this thread so they are not red "X" 's anymore....
This pic (http://www.texas4x4.org/gallery/album158/s307) is with the scout 44 still in the front and the 14blt in back. I dont have any idea what the backspacing on the old wheels was, but the new ones stick out way more.
how about some more pics of how you extended the frame in the front?
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