Dakota

More Photos to come.

Inside the cab


The new rear


working on the rear bag setup

nice progress

woohooo another dakota guy.. keep it up man..

i love ur choice of welders lol, and looks like a nice start

Good start bro

Nice...
More progress!

I dig the cali combo

Looks good.

Test Fitting break lines & various other parts







Some of the frame painted




started welding mounts


Test fitting bed & bed tubs

Question:

I'm unable to find a differential bracket to mount my upper 4 link bars the normal wish bone way as shown in (RED) below. However I was talking to another bagged truck owner today. He said, the way the bars would be mounted in the horz position as show in (WHITE) would be fine. However should I try and feb up a differential bracket and mount them as shown in red ? since my differential is cast iron. Any suggestions would be helpful .

hmmm i am not sure what would be best but i have seen people run a bar over the axle for the center mount and weld it to the axle housing. maybe make ur own diff. mount for it that will bolt on to the cover?

You can run them either direction, however I must warn you that with that short of an upper vs that long of a lower, you are going to end up with a ton of pinion angle change, which means you will have a very limited amount of ride height variation to drive at, which might not be a huge deal to you.

I would honestly suggest running two more long bars and make it a parallel 4 link and then run a watt's system or a really long panhard bar

If you do decide to run them as the white bars, you are going to have some issues with them fitting and the bags in their current location.

Thanks!

I just order the watts link along with a few brackets and a extra bar to make the Parallel.

sounds like a realy good plan to me.

However they said it would take 3-4 weeks to get the watts link in But will look good when its finshed.

hells yeah man, do work!!

just three link it. simble wishbone set up.

Looking good, I know my home boy KDaddy is gonna be flipping when he sees this LOL He is soooo close to finishing his 96 Dakota. I think the only real hold up he has is cash flow. It is a race to se which Dak is finished first HA HA HA.

Awesome!! Have to hit some shows together sometime..

Most of the bed cut out ready for tubs.


Painted the frame (where visable)


Junior Mini Trucker playing with rear air


fixing some body issues



Cut the filler plates for the shaved doors


My goofy ass

Nice man, I got a 95' that I'm in the process of gettin the rocker a lil closer to mother earth. Keep up the good work, love to see these trucks done up. I got watts link on mine, great idea works wonders.