I guess I'll join the fun (minitruck content)

[moist taco]

things are getting gooood...cant wait to see how they look on the truck..what size spacers are you getting (if you dont mind sharing specs of course)

[fackinsteve]

Had my tires mounted yesterday



I had to get new adapters and they won't be here til next week but this held me over for now



I'm probably gonna remove the centercaps or just paint them black I'm not too sure yet but I'm pleased with how its turning out so far

[fackinsteve]

Flipped my sway bar right side up. Truck rides soooooo much smoother now and finally sits just about level

[aLaFleur]

Hell just take it off. I always ditch them on my trucks.

[fackinsteve]

My sway bar is in upside down ��

[fackinsteve]

So I think I found my issue



My sway bar is resting on my frame, I think this is why the front is so high.



Sorry for the shitty pic but my control arm has enough travel its not sitting on the bumpstops but you can see how my sway bar end links are waaaay too long now. I'll have to find shorter endlinks or shorten them myself hopefully that will fix my issue

[fackinsteve]

The front springs will settle after a few weeks, but i doubt they'll go down that much. Cut a coil off of the spring. I'm on cut springs in the front because the coilovers i have dont go low enough ( need swift springs for them but lazy). My ride really isnt that bad in my opinion, as long as the shocks are in good shape, cut springs will be fine. I'm actually running s10 front shocks if i remember correctly, they're 3inches shorter than mine.

I'll consider it as an option for now, a few others mentioned it too so I guess it can't really that bad. But yeah I'm running Belltech shocks on mine.

Make sure you're not sitting on the bump stops or something.

I'll have to check that out, they sent me acorn style polyurethane bumpstops with the 3" springs I didn't check to see how much clearance they have. I also noticed that my sway bar is making contact with my frame. I'll take a good look under it today

[aLaFleur]

Make sure you're not sitting on the bump stops or something.

[moist taco]

The front springs will settle after a few weeks, but i doubt they'll go down that much. Cut a coil off of the spring. I'm on cut springs in the front because the coilovers i have dont go low enough ( need swift springs for them but lazy). My ride really isnt that bad in my opinion, as long as the shocks are in good shape, cut springs will be fine. I'm actually running s10 front shocks if i remember correctly, they're 3inches shorter than mine.

[fackinsteve]

Some today I did a little work to the truck, I installed my JTR blocks today.



Quality of these are awesome especially compared to other vendors.



I torqued them to 85 ft lbs per request from JTR



And safe and sound! Its funny usually after I mess around with the suspension I feel a little nervous but this time around it didn't even phase me. Another thing I noticed was from a dead stop I would get a little drive line vibration from 0-10ish mph, its now totally gone. JTR ftw.

Aaaand reverse rake plagues my truck once again! I need some ideas on how to get my truck lower in the front now. I don't feel like my springs fully dropped the truck even though the appear to be completely seated.



Oh I also got tires



There so small I'm used to ordering 275s for my Z28 lol its such a downgrade to a 225 for me. My friends going to mount them for my on Wednesday I hope to have the wheels on my truck for a meet on Friday night. But yes I'd love some suggestions on how to get my front down a little more

[fackinsteve]

Tires shipped out today they're supposed to be here on Monday. I'm gonna try to get them mounted ASAP I'm getting sick of rolling around on my ZQ8s.

My new blocks showed up yesterday and they are pretty bad azz.



3" billet aluminum blocks with 4° pinion shims and set back plates. The idea behind the shims is to correct pinion angle lost when lowering the truck and the setback plates move rear end back so that way the driveshaft isn't pushing too far into the transmission. So basically its for longevity which is important since this in my daily.

Last but not least I put these on today



Not quite sure how I feel about it yet but if I still am undecided by the time my wheels are on then I'll peel it off

[fackinsteve]

Initial test fit was a success, just need extended studs and tires

[fackinsteve]

Little update, I didn't get a chance to get my springs correctly in place because of this



My exhaust was touching the ground here and it was stuck on an ice patch. It took us about an hour and half to get it unstuck and I was left with a nice exhaust leak.

Random pic



And in more important news my wheels showed up today



18x9.5 et 15. I plan on test fitting them tomorrow to see how big of a spacer I need but I already have 1" spacers so I should be right where I need to be

[fackinsteve]

So yeah I'm going to take it apart again this weekend because I don't think my coils are installed properly lol. Reverse raking hard which doesn't make sense it should sit level. Oh well not surprised I didn't mess something up haha

[moist taco]

looks good dewd..keep it up