Jay's Bagged and Linked 1958 Chevy Apache

[PassionGarage]

I'm loving this !!!! keep it up !!!

[Jay92]

Had a chance to TIG weld the rear lower bag mounts tonight. Interlocking the parts like lego really makes it easy to get everything in position



And some amateur weld porn

[Jay92]

Thanks Mike. That means a lot coming from you!

[M.Burroughs]

Awesome on all counts!

[Jay92]

It's been a couple months since I updated this build. Been busy with life and haven't had much time to get into the shop, but I think things have slowed down a bit and I've got some parts collected to get more done.

So in the past couple months I sold my broken STi swapped Impreza that's been taking up space for a couple years now


Also did a good clean of the shop after the subie went and been helping my buddy with his 280z. Just a chevy 305/T5 combo to shred some tires with. It's actually pretty close to running now so watch for that.



Took some scrap metal back and loaded up the beer fridge with some adult pops


And the last few weeks I've been helping another buddy with his Forester XT. Manual swap, bagged and Work Euroline DH. Still needs some adjusting to go lower, but it's almost there. Sorry for the shitty pic.


And recently I`ve also been working on designing some parts and getting them laser cut for the truck. Have the upper and lower rear bag mounts cut out and ready to weld and just finished off these LS motor mounts I`m working on

These will be going up for sale on my webstore that I`m working on. They`ll be sold with a bushing and brackets to be used as a universal weld in kit, as well as the bag mounts.

[The Simps]

So Cool. Love how you made those chassis rails.

[Jay92]

Threw the body back on and rolled the ol' girl outside today. It's set pretty much at my desired right height. So happy with it right now.

[storey618]

looking good man. i look forward to updates so keep working a posting please!!!

[Jay92]

Took a couple weeks to take a break from the truck. The upper four link crossmember was driving me nuts and caused me to loose some motivation. Threw the cab and fenders back on and set the wheel on to see if it looked cool. It does and I found my motivation. I couldn't come up with a good idea that would look somewhat OK. First idea was to build a truss over the pumpkin and mount the arms in the center of the diff and at the frame. That wouldn't work to get the right length and angle in the upper arms. Then I thought to bend a hoop and mount the arms on the axle tubes and the center of the crossmember/hoop. That wouldn't really flow with the rest of the chassis (cuz that matters apparently). Then I came up with this 3/16" x 2" x 4" rectangle tubing, welded together and smoothed out. still need to finish the curved portion at the top and sides to give it some flow. Anyways got it all tacked up, upper and lower arms are parallel with eachother which is nice and plenty of adjustment in the heim joints for pinion angle and the axle cycles smooth through its stroke. Now that that's done time to mount bags and fully weld everything then smooth all my welds out and radius the edges.


Threw some roller wheels on from my buddies old ls400. Needs tall bias ply tires for sure.

[Jay92]

That all WelderSeries stuff? Ive got thier Triangulated air 4link and M2 front end kit for my 50 pontiac im building.

The formed brackets for the lower link mounts are from them. The rest of the brackets are from TMR customs. Funny thing is welder series is just down the street from my old shop im Breslau. I didnt realize that until i had the parts sent to the new shop.

[benz88]

That all WelderSeries stuff? Ive got thier Triangulated air 4link and M2 front end kit for my 50 pontiac im building.

[scweet14]

so in for this!!

[Jay92]

Was on vacation this week so got a decent amount of work done. not quite as much as I had wanted, but that's just how things go.

Picked up the laser cut rear frame rails friday and promptly got started boxing them in. This was probably one of the harder things I've had to do. A lot of checking to make sure they were square and didn't warp when welding 72 feet of butt joint. Basically tacked the 2" flat bar on the plates then continued bending and tacking to get the curve down.



I didn't get any pics of them final welded yet. I got them tacked onto the frame and in position. The passenger side rail needs some straightening from a bit too much heat when welding, but I've got a plan. After I got them tacked on I positioned the rear end and got the lower 4link bars in position. Mounted them as high up on the frame as possible to keep them parallel to the ground at ride height. I've changed my mind on how I'm going to do the upper bars so more to come

[Funk]

Love (all caps)

[Jay92]

Nice welds man!

Thanks man

Small update

Picked up some Cragar SS's for cheap on Friday. Unsure if I'll use em yet. I'll decide once I get the body back on. I more or less got them as roller wheels, if I don't like em they'll go on my dad's 57 Bel-Air wagon. Not bad for $80 tho



I started preping the rear end last week as well. Got the leaf spring mounts ground off and the lower link mounts welded on. New frame rails should be ready this week. I'm on vacation next week so I'm going to attempt to have the rear rails welded, 4-link done and the body back on to see how she looks. Should be an exciting couple of weeks