Numtel want 8" in his rear..

[section525]

...and his brother is going to give it to him.









So far:

[texican]

I was afraid this was another spammer post from a gay/insestuous website

[Advent Horizon]

So...Wait...He's putting a Toyota 8" rear axle in, or he's lifting the rear 8"?

[section525]

It's going to be an 8" stretch. Along with a SOA. Plus some 37" MT/Rs in a week or so.

[section525]

Welding after the cut and turn:

[Wilson]

Are MTR's available again? I tried to get some a month or so ago and was told no dice at America's Tire.

[section525]

Originally Posted by Wilson

Are MTR's available again? I tried to get some a month or so ago and was told no dice at America's Tire.

Picked them up with 70% left for a good deal.

[93chico4by]

Uhhg. I Hate welding and grinding. :-/ I think i have 4 soild hours of non-stop welding and grinding on this project so far.

I dunno what Numtel is thinking letting a Ford guy work on his junk, that boy must be nuts.

It is all going pretty well, except for the fact that my bro thought he would be able to reuse his U-bolts, we can't even get the nuts back on them. They are so bent and fubared from several trips of getting dragged through the 'con.

So, tomorrow, we will get new U-bolts made, and i will start stretching the rear 8".

[Wilson]

Originally Posted by 93chico4by

Uhhg. I Hate welding and grinding. :-/ I think i have 4 soild hours of non-stop welding and grinding on this project so far.

I dunno what Numtel is thinking letting a Ford guy work on his junk, that boy must be nuts.

It is all going pretty well, except for the fact that my bro thought he would be able to reuse his U-bolts, we can't even get the nuts back on them. They are so bent and fubared from several trips of getting dragged through the 'con.

So, tomorrow, we will get new U-bolts made, and i will start stretching the rear 8".

What's the plan for the stretch? Flipped springs and moved back? I got my wheelbase out to 103" and seems pretty long. I went with $ runner rear spring hybrid up front and S10 rears in the back. The rear springs bolted into the stock hanger and gave me another 4" on top of what the flipped springs get you.

[Rat70FJ]

Originally Posted by texican

I was afraid this was another spammer post from a gay/insestuous website

That was pretty mild compared to your response on Mark's head jobs.


Must be a Texas thing!

[section525]

We're using 2.5" lift springs, moved up 2.5" and back 8". Should be interesing. All that's happening tomorrow in the daylight.

[numtel]

We got the front cut and turned and SOA'd tonight. The rear is going to be done tomorrow. The shackle will be hanging off the rear crossmember and we will be making a new spring hanger to for the front of the spring.

[93chico4by]

Originally Posted by section525

We're using 2.5" lift springs, moved up 2.5" and back 8". Should be interesing. All that's happening tomorrow in the daylight.

yep, the shackle will be hanging off the rear of the bumper, just barely. The main reason for this is that Numtel (my brother) broke mainleaf this summer and bought a brand new set of 2.5 springs. So, it seemed like it would be nice to be able to use those two packs in the spring-over somehow. But he really didn't want it that tall, so this is the solution i came up with. 8" is mostly because in the rear, the spring hanger is right where the frame starts to go up, so if i find the point 2.5" up (to compensate fo rthe lift springs in rear and stockers in front) it moves it back 8".

That is why we are not going to flip the springs( the tires would then be 4" past the rear bumper). I feel the advantages of this will be the fact that we are running damn near new springs (not 40 y/o ones). The stiffer lift springs should help control axle wrap better (a traction bar is obviously the next project though ) and the stiffer springs should make it more stable, and reduce some of the body sway that sprung over cruisers seem to have a fondness for.

But, in all reality i have never done anything like this before and i am fully expecting something not to go as planned, luckily it ain't my truck





Edit: as it sits now:

[DHONDAGOD]

[quote=93chico4by]But, in all reality i have never done anything like this before and i am fully expecting something not to go as planned, luckily it ain't my truck

[quote=93chico4by]

Good attitude!! I learned a great deal over the years convincing people to let me try some hair-brained ideas on their junk.....

Carry on!!


Chris

[Fawk Awph]

looking good phil. i wont be back in chico until tuesady or so, or i would be over helping out if i could. ill hit you guys up later this week to see how its going.

Callen

[section525]

Okay. We've (they've) been workin all morning. This is where we're at:

Rear axle; stock location:

[section525]

Where the axle will be after we're (they're) done:

8" back

[numtel]

It moves! It ended up being more like 10" I'm going to need a longer shackle in the rear but it turned out sweet. Pics in a few minutes.

[93chico4by]

welp, i decided to not hold back, and gave him my full 10".







you can tell that the rear shackle went a little flatter than we anticipated, and it sits a little low out back right now. It was really hard to tell where the front and rear-end were gonna end up in relationship to each other, i am pretty pleased with it though. A longer shackle in the back should fix the angle and level it out nicely.

And it looks SICK in person. Tomorrow we will finish up on the body trimming. the rear fenders are gonna go to the top of the wheel well (about 3" more" and the bent-ass rockers are coming off. The front fenders will also get a little taken off of them, mostly just the very outside edge at the top and the bent portion near the bottom. (if you couldn't tell the plan is to just cut off all the bent steel instead of just fixing it).

And we have the tires (37 MTrs) but we are waiting on rims, that should be about a week away.

[section525]

Don't forget about my custom spring hangers!

[Wilson]

Wheel base?

[section525]

Originally Posted by Wilson

Wheel base?

101"-102". Somewhere in there.

[93chico4by]

It is more like 99".

[numtel]

Here are some day light pics. I need a much longer shackle in the back as you can see in the last picture. I tried to flex on my brother's 37 but it didn't really work too well with front wheel drive and rear wheel brakes. The shackle inverting didn't help either. These ones are 4" eye-to-eye. It sits low in the rear even with 2.5" lift springs in the rear and stockers up front. Maybe like a 8" shackle or something to compensate for the angle and height.

[numtel]

Reverse angle, can see shackle