possibly doing my first suspension....

Hows it goin man? You get what you need?

Well I'm still tryin to build up my money but its gettin ther bustin my ars ass and gettin as much overtime as possible to do this but it should be fairly soon imma gettin the stuff for my front and air management stuff gettin excited

Oh yea I also have the stuff layin around to change my guages/interior over to LED, and imma start workin on my center console, got two solo x 12, kicker amp, audio control eq, audiocontrol somethin lol so all I'm lakin is a doubleden tv and compoment speakers, but the ones I got are workin good so those can wait. Baby steps but its better than no steps I guess...

Joey wrote:

Oh yea I also have the stuff layin around to change my guages/interior over to LED, and imma start workin on my center console, got two solo x 12, kicker amp, audio control eq, audiocontrol somethin lol so all I'm lakin is a doubleden tv and compoment speakers, but the ones I got are workin good so those can wait. Baby steps but its better than no steps I guess...

i got a solo 8 in my console lol

Sweet I love these, they are competion ones that were my dads and once the spiders get to a certain point they no good for competetions but are good for street use so I got em haha

Well change in plans...I am goin to get my papas truck and work on it for my daily and parts hauler, instead of doing the kp stuff imma just do a back half or try anyways lol its the route I would rather go and I Have more money for other things. how hard is it to do a stock floor body drop?? I seen some build and I dont wanna cut my cab because I don't like the look of a raised floor...

my cab was not cut at all for my stock floor bd

joey most of the time you dont have to do much/any floor cutting at all on a stock floor drop, most of the time it may involve transmission tunnel being raised some or as some people do with body styles like mine when you channel it all you have to do is notch a spot under your seat where one part of the frame will touch the cab & the gas tank behind the driver seat like an inch or so...your mainly shortening the height of the frame some & dropping the body mounts down to where your body is where it needs to be & the cab isnt touching the frame sorta in a nut shell lol

you never know man, this could turn into "one of those threads" where you look back onto it a year from now and itll be 22 pages long and by this time next year itll be fully layed out & everything else you want out of it and just simply a show stopper and youll look back into these first few pages & see how far ya came! just take your time & have fun with it!

Heck yea man that's what I'm goin for. I want this to just be a clean simple truck w/ a lot of small details... I really wanna go to wyotech so I can have certificates in all this. But I know whenever you do a stock floor your basically just replacing the frame under the cab and since imma do a back half. Good luck w/ your trucks its always been one of my favorites

AcroFarmer wrote:

you never know man, this could turn into "one of those threads" where you look back onto it a year from now and itll be 22 pages long and by this time next year itll be fully layed out & everything else you want out of it and just simply a show stopper and youll look back into these first few pages & see how far ya came! just take your time & have fun with it!

lol, I laugh at all the "at the time" learnig questions when I was just static out.


I'd say start with baggng the front and back, roll it for a while, then go onto a body drop.
My truck was cully bagged probably less than 6 months before I boddied it and I should have waited a little longe and enjoyd the bags a little more. Body drops are no joke, and there is no going back...and they always take longerthan you think they will! So many little things pop up and need to be taken care of.

Like I said, talk to clint or rigo and I'm sure your budget will thank you!

Yea man pm was sent last night imma try and get this done asap... that along w/ now possibly goin back to school should keep my busy, this factory bull crap is just not me cars are my passion and I'm not gonna settle for that job. Atleasgt not now anyways hahaha but thanks guys for the inputs they really motivate and help me wanna do my truck!

Gotta question about a welder... a guy told me I should be fine w/ welding my notch and links w/ a licoln 140 , but I don't think that's a good enough. I was thinkin of gettin the licoln 180 and if needed weld my notch in w/ the 220 at work. So the question I have is will the 180 be the best all around welder for sheet metal and suspension??