Basic Body Dropping

11-20-2002, 08:49 PM

Cool because removing the heater core can take half an hour of 3 hours on some automobiles. I think it depends on if you have to remove the dash or not. Hope I don't have to find out.

Got_20s · 11-21-2002, 08:13 AM

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Originally posted by AVTekk
heat isnt really gone, just the blower motor is missing. so if the blower motor is missing, obviously theres no heat cuz there nothing to push the hot air at you. heater core is still in position tho. if you want to get rid of it, just barrel the line together in a loop

I drove all last winter with no blower motor, or heater controls. It's cold at first but once you start driving it gets hot in the cab pretty fast. Heat in the summer........ that sucked.

I really think I should have removed the heater core too.

JoshJPKustoms · 11-22-2002, 01:20 PM

I removed the heater core, the blower motor and all the hoses. I put plugs in the block so no antifreeze could come out. You have to remove the dash on old style s10s in order to get the heater core out. If anyone needs a heater core setup, I do have it. There makes a lot more room once you get that outta there. My new fiberglassed dash should take care of that!

***AVTekk*** · 11-22-2002, 02:21 PM

:thumbup: ya ive seen it go both ways...

JoshJPKustoms · 11-22-2002, 05:51 PM

LOL be careful of the antifreeze attack LOL ..antifreeze all over shop floor, but i got it cleaned up LOL peace

bdydrgns15 · 11-22-2002, 06:03 PM

If you need a heater, you could always do what I did:

Of course, before you comment, this pic was right after the b/d, so alot has been cleaned up under the hood LOL.

Edit: trying to find bigger pic...

bdydrgns15 · 11-22-2002, 06:05 PM

Here we go, nice and large... :thumbup:

JoshJPKustoms · 11-26-2002, 01:52 AM

Here is my bed all bolted up. Sorry for the seafoam green color on my truck

. The digi flash is wackin up the color totally, but you get the point, im happy with the turnout and she lays hard!

JoshJPKustoms · 11-26-2002, 01:54 AM

another!

blackLS1 · 11-29-2002, 06:16 AM

Lookin good guys.I plan to get mine body dropped one day hopefully in the next year.How has your ride changed since your bdrop?How has it affected your daily driver status?

bdydrgns15 · 11-29-2002, 04:42 PM

Josh, you better be cutting them pinchwelds off man...

bdydrgns15 · 11-29-2002, 04:43 PM

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Originally posted by blackLS1
Lookin good guys.I plan to get mine body dropped one day hopefully in the next year.How has your ride changed since your bdrop?How has it affected your daily driver status?

The ride wouldn't change, you aren't doing anything to the suspension.

I still drive mine everyday in the summer and into late fall...just parked mine 2 weeks ago. Only to work on it, not because the weather.

I need money · 11-30-2002, 04:01 AM

My stock floor bd is about half way done. Only problem is that
i still gots to channel the front of my frame about 2". I'm using 3x3" tubing w/ 1/4" walls. I should have some pics up within the next week or so.

JoshJPKustoms · 12-08-2002, 12:36 PM

Depending on how hard the cab lays them pinch's can kiss their ass goodbye!

whitebowtie9 · 12-08-2002, 09:34 PM

another thing you can do with the heater core lines if i remember correctly just directly run the coolant line with an adapter from the radiator to the engine, all i noticed the heatercore was doin was just being in the way of the flow to the radiator... thats all

I need money · 12-08-2002, 09:42 PM

What did all you guys do about your steering column. I layed out my cab 2 days ago and I noticed that it was leaking from the power steering gear box. WTF did I do? If anyone has some help, please let me know.

POS-10 · 12-09-2002, 03:48 AM

The column is collapsible so it should be a problem unlesss you're doing like a 5" b/d. I did 3" and my column still had some slack to collapse a little more.

IntenseMtrsprts7 · 12-11-2002, 03:50 AM

Ya I'm thinkin of going with a 3" body drop, I thought you had to do a 3.25" to lay your pinch welds...heres one who did 3" and is layin pretty damn hard. http://www.streetsourcemag.com/ViewO...Profileid=8525

POS-10 · 12-11-2002, 12:51 PM

When i first saw those pics, i had a feeling he was running 17s. I think my truck would lay like that if I had 17s.

IntenseMtrsprts7 · 12-11-2002, 04:34 PM

I plan on running 17's or 18's.

12-11-2002, 05:37 PM

Dubs for me and a stock floor body drop. I found a guy that will do it and knows how to because he did it to his.

lowrider4life · 12-12-2002, 07:42 PM

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Originally posted by IntenseMtrsprts7
Ya I'm thinkin of going with a 3" body drop, I thought you had to do a 3.25" to lay your pinch welds...heres one who did 3" and is layin pretty damn hard. http://www.streetsourcemag.com/ViewO...Profileid=8525

3.25 to lay your rockers....

12-13-2002, 06:24 PM

5 inches to lay doors which is the badest of the bad in lowering.

:headbang:

elcamino · 12-16-2002, 03:03 AM

5" body dropped blazer!!!!!!!!!!!

http://ep.com/pic3/1507258/1038732563111.jpg

http://www.blazecustomz.com/bodydrop.jpg

hoppin01s10 · 12-16-2002, 06:28 PM

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Originally posted by 91350s10
i just was wondering... someone said that alot of body dropped trucks have thier door panels removed. dont you slide the cab down and cut the floor along the sill seam. this wouldnt change the height of the doors would it?

Just to add this if peoples door panals are removed that means something wasn't done right. Click on the link below. I sectioned the floor where the door panel would of hit. Two +'s by doing this more leg room and door panel clearence. Just my 2 cents.

Jeff

Http://www.streetsourcemag.com/Profi...rofileid=11022

shorty · 12-16-2002, 07:46 PM

i'm just finishing my 5-1/2" b.d. on my 86 x-cab, laying doors almost...will be after a few passes "down" the road, if ya follow me.

lots-o cuttin' & will only fit 18's all around, that's the bummer, I could have went w/ 20's in back, but they're 1/2" too tall......& I didn't want anything poking out the top of the bed....

you can see in the gallery here or in Street source or some of the build up at www.gotrockers.com, my buddies shop where we did most of the work......

hoppin01s10 · 12-17-2002, 03:39 PM

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Originally posted by lowrider4life
3.25 to lay your rockers....

Well I disagree thats what I thought to. So I went ahead a bd it 3 1/4". The rocker sticks below the frame about 1/4". Oh well thou looks like i'll be dragging them smooth. Oh yah I performed this bd on my 01 S-10 xtended cab.

Jeff

12-17-2002, 04:04 PM

Dayum that blazer lays hard. What kind of door handles are those.

EyePoppin · 12-17-2002, 05:39 PM

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Originally posted by hoppin01s10
Well I disagree thats what I thought to. So I went ahead a bd it 3 1/4". The rocker sticks below the frame about 1/4". Oh well thou looks like i'll be dragging them smooth. Oh yah I performed this bd on my 01 S-10 xtended cab.

Jeff

i did 3.25 and worked fine on mine...are u sure u didnt go 3?

Got_20s · 12-17-2002, 05:42 PM

quote:
Originally posted by hoppin01s10
Well I disagree thats what I thought to. So I went ahead a bd it 3 1/4". The rocker sticks below the frame about 1/4". Oh well thou looks like i'll be dragging them smooth. Oh yah I performed this bd on my 01 S-10 xtended cab.

Jeff

Quote:

Originally posted by EyePoppin
i did 3.25 and worked fine on mine...are u sure u didnt go 3?

That would be 3 1/2 then.

Just playin.

hoppin01s10 · 12-18-2002, 05:59 PM

I'm sure I only went 3 1/4". Anyways it don't matter to me , they'll be flat with the frame soon.

Jeff

Altophobic · 01-01-2003, 08:46 PM

i was wondering what everyones ideas were for running exhaust one a bodyless bodydrop.???????

tks
scott

01-01-2003, 09:26 PM

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Originally posted by Altophobic
i was wondering what everyones ideas were for running exhaust one a bodyless bodydrop.???????

tks
scott

So u are not going to cut the body to bring it down but build a frame so it lays body???

Altophobic · 01-01-2003, 11:48 PM

im not sure exactly what you were asking but, i am going to bodydrop my bed so that i wont have any holes in it when i get my 20s to lay. and they put spacers between the bed and the frame so that in the future IF i want to bodydrop it to the body lays then i just need to remve the spacrers and it will lay down.

scott

JoshJPKustoms · 01-04-2003, 12:58 AM

JoshJPKustoms · 01-04-2003, 01:00 AM

JoshJPKustoms · 01-04-2003, 01:02 AM

special.......

JoshJPKustoms · 01-04-2003, 01:03 AM

u can kinda see our phat console too

***AVTekk*** · 01-04-2003, 02:50 AM

ooOOO hehe keep the pics comin!!

01-04-2003, 11:05 AM

Man I have never seen a truck with left hand steering.

01-04-2003, 11:10 AM

you mean right hand steering

01-04-2003, 11:12 AM

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Originally posted by phat96
you mean right hand steering

Man that is what I meant. It is too early in the morning to be typing.

slamedsafari · 01-08-2003, 09:10 PM

when i body drop the bed to clear the notch and pumpkin, how much higher do i make it? 2inches?

EyePoppin · 01-08-2003, 09:58 PM

there are 3 or 4 trucks around here that have rt hand steering, 2 that i helped build.....pretty cool mod.

JoshJPKustoms · 01-09-2003, 01:16 AM

Slammed safari, do you mean so you dont have to cut the back out???? if so yeah, just figure out how much more it would be and i would do prolly 1-2" more and then just schim it up bro, we finally got my cal combo and fillers welded in so the assend of my sdime is lookin killer

slamedsafari · 01-09-2003, 03:56 AM

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Originally posted by drag_it
Slammed safari, do you mean so you dont have to cut the back out???? if so yeah, just figure out how much more it would be and i would do prolly 1-2" more and then just schim it up bro, we finally got my cal combo and fillers welded in so the assend of my sdime is lookin killer

yeah that's exactly what i meant thanks. Also, when i reweld the bed, do i spot weld it or just lay a fat seam down the sides?

JoshJPKustoms · 01-10-2003, 08:58 PM

safari, make sure you tack around in places, dont weld a solid bead across it it will burn through and wont work right..just tack it about every 5" and then go inbetween those tacks, so on and so forth..Peace

Josh

slamedsafari · 01-11-2003, 01:04 AM

so stich weld it as if i were to shave my handles?

JoshJPKustoms · 01-11-2003, 12:40 PM

Slammed, yup thats right. When you do the filler panel in the back, you should be able to do a few small 1-2" beads and it will be fine, depending on how thick of metal you used, we used 1/8" for the back of mine, and 1/8" for the cab/firewall also...

Josh

JoshJPKustoms · 01-22-2003, 09:29 PM

Some pics of the cab welded up and dropped

11-20-2002, 08:49 PM	#101
NCHEVYHEVN Posts: n/a Location: User is:	Cool because removing the heater core can take half an hour of 3 hours on some automobiles. I think it depends on if you have to remove the dash or not. Hope I don't have to find out.
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11-21-2002, 08:13 AM	#102
Got_20s body dropped Age: 33 Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 4,384 Location: Whitby, Ontario, Canada User is: OffLine	I still have heat. Quote: Originally posted by AVTekk heat isnt really gone, just the blower motor is missing. so if the blower motor is missing, obviously theres no heat cuz there nothing to push the hot air at you. heater core is still in position tho. if you want to get rid of it, just barrel the line together in a loop I drove all last winter with no blower motor, or heater controls. It's cold at first but once you start driving it gets hot in the cab pretty fast. Heat in the summer........ that sucked. I really think I should have removed the heater core too.
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11-22-2002, 01:20 PM	#103
JoshJPKustoms Draggin body member Age: 24 Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,141 Location: Minot North Dakota User is: OffLine	I removed the heater core, the blower motor and all the hoses. I put plugs in the block so no antifreeze could come out. You have to remove the dash on old style s10s in order to get the heater core out. If anyone needs a heater core setup, I do have it. There makes a lot more room once you get that outta there. My new fiberglassed dash should take care of that!
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11-22-2002, 05:51 PM	#105
JoshJPKustoms Draggin body member Age: 24 Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,141 Location: Minot North Dakota User is: OffLine	LOL be careful of the antifreeze attack LOL ..antifreeze all over shop floor, but i got it cleaned up LOL peace
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11-22-2002, 06:03 PM	#106
bdydrgns15 has gone suicide! Age: 29 Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 359 Location: Edmonton User is: OffLine	If you need a heater, you could always do what I did: Of course, before you comment, this pic was right after the b/d, so alot has been cleaned up under the hood LOL. Edit: trying to find bigger pic...
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11-22-2002, 06:05 PM	#107
bdydrgns15 has gone suicide! Age: 29 Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 359 Location: Edmonton User is: OffLine	Here we go, nice and large... :thumbup:
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11-26-2002, 01:52 AM	#108
JoshJPKustoms Draggin body member Age: 24 Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,141 Location: Minot North Dakota User is: OffLine	Few more pics of bed Here is my bed all bolted up. Sorry for the seafoam green color on my truck . The digi flash is wackin up the color totally, but you get the point, im happy with the turnout and she lays hard!
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11-26-2002, 01:54 AM	#109
JoshJPKustoms Draggin body member Age: 24 Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,141 Location: Minot North Dakota User is: OffLine	another another!
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11-29-2002, 06:16 AM	#110
blackLS1 Registered User Age: 32 Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,528 Location: Smithfield NC User is: OffLine	Lookin good guys.I plan to get mine body dropped one day hopefully in the next year.How has your ride changed since your bdrop?How has it affected your daily driver status?
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11-29-2002, 04:42 PM	#111
bdydrgns15 has gone suicide! Age: 29 Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 359 Location: Edmonton User is: OffLine	Josh, you better be cutting them pinchwelds off man...
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11-29-2002, 04:43 PM	#112
bdydrgns15 has gone suicide! Age: 29 Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 359 Location: Edmonton User is: OffLine	Quote: Originally posted by blackLS1 Lookin good guys.I plan to get mine body dropped one day hopefully in the next year.How has your ride changed since your bdrop?How has it affected your daily driver status? The ride wouldn't change, you aren't doing anything to the suspension. I still drive mine everyday in the summer and into late fall...just parked mine 2 weeks ago. Only to work on it, not because the weather.
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11-30-2002, 04:01 AM	#113
I need money Layin body Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 14 Location: User is: OffLine	My stock floor bd is about half way done. Only problem is that i still gots to channel the front of my frame about 2". I'm using 3x3" tubing w/ 1/4" walls. I should have some pics up within the next week or so.
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12-08-2002, 12:36 PM	#114
JoshJPKustoms Draggin body member Age: 24 Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,141 Location: Minot North Dakota User is: OffLine	Depending on how hard the cab lays them pinch's can kiss their ass goodbye!
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12-08-2002, 09:34 PM	#115
whitebowtie9 gumby green Age: 25 Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 3,499 Location: south/central jersey User is: OffLine	another thing you can do with the heater core lines if i remember correctly just directly run the coolant line with an adapter from the radiator to the engine, all i noticed the heatercore was doin was just being in the way of the flow to the radiator... thats all
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12-08-2002, 09:42 PM	#116
I need money Layin body Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 14 Location: User is: OffLine	What did all you guys do about your steering column. I layed out my cab 2 days ago and I noticed that it was leaking from the power steering gear box. WTF did I do? If anyone has some help, please let me know.
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12-09-2002, 03:48 AM	#117
POS-10 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 369 Location: Honolulu User is: OffLine	The column is collapsible so it should be a problem unlesss you're doing like a 5" b/d. I did 3" and my column still had some slack to collapse a little more.
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12-11-2002, 03:50 AM	#118
IntenseMtrsprts7 Bolt-On Body Dropz Age: 23 Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 2,722 Location: St. Louis Pavement User is: OffLine	Ya I'm thinkin of going with a 3" body drop, I thought you had to do a 3.25" to lay your pinch welds...heres one who did 3" and is layin pretty damn hard. http://www.streetsourcemag.com/ViewO...Profileid=8525
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12-11-2002, 12:51 PM	#119
POS-10 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 369 Location: Honolulu User is: OffLine	When i first saw those pics, i had a feeling he was running 17s. I think my truck would lay like that if I had 17s.
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12-11-2002, 04:34 PM	#120
IntenseMtrsprts7 Bolt-On Body Dropz Age: 23 Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 2,722 Location: St. Louis Pavement User is: OffLine	I plan on running 17's or 18's.
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12-11-2002, 05:37 PM	#121
NCHEVYHEVN Posts: n/a Location: User is:	Dubs for me and a stock floor body drop. I found a guy that will do it and knows how to because he did it to his.
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12-12-2002, 07:42 PM	#122
lowrider4life Registered User Age: 28 Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 238 Location: User is: OffLine	Quote: Originally posted by IntenseMtrsprts7 Ya I'm thinkin of going with a 3" body drop, I thought you had to do a 3.25" to lay your pinch welds...heres one who did 3" and is layin pretty damn hard. http://www.streetsourcemag.com/ViewO...Profileid=8525 3.25 to lay your rockers....
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12-13-2002, 06:24 PM	#123
NCHEVYHEVN Posts: n/a Location: User is:	5 inches to lay doors which is the badest of the bad in lowering. :headbang:
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12-16-2002, 03:03 AM	#124
elcamino Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 10 Location: User is: OffLine	5" body dropped blazer!!!!!!!!!!! http://ep.com/pic3/1507258/1038732563111.jpg http://www.blazecustomz.com/bodydrop.jpg
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12-16-2002, 06:28 PM	#125
hoppin01s10 Registered User Age: 31 Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 132 Location: Lansing, MI User is: OffLine	Quote: Originally posted by 91350s10 i just was wondering... someone said that alot of body dropped trucks have thier door panels removed. dont you slide the cab down and cut the floor along the sill seam. this wouldnt change the height of the doors would it? Just to add this if peoples door panals are removed that means something wasn't done right. Click on the link below. I sectioned the floor where the door panel would of hit. Two +'s by doing this more leg room and door panel clearence. Just my 2 cents. Jeff Http://www.streetsourcemag.com/Profi...rofileid=11022
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12-16-2002, 07:46 PM	#126
shorty DooR DraggeR Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 307 Location: Kokomo, IN User is: OffLine	i'm just finishing my 5-1/2" b.d. on my 86 x-cab, laying doors almost...will be after a few passes "down" the road, if ya follow me. lots-o cuttin' & will only fit 18's all around, that's the bummer, I could have went w/ 20's in back, but they're 1/2" too tall......& I didn't want anything poking out the top of the bed.... you can see in the gallery here or in Street source or some of the build up at www.gotrockers.com, my buddies shop where we did most of the work......
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12-17-2002, 03:39 PM	#127
hoppin01s10 Registered User Age: 31 Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 132 Location: Lansing, MI User is: OffLine	Quote: Originally posted by lowrider4life 3.25 to lay your rockers.... Well I disagree thats what I thought to. So I went ahead a bd it 3 1/4". The rocker sticks below the frame about 1/4". Oh well thou looks like i'll be dragging them smooth. Oh yah I performed this bd on my 01 S-10 xtended cab. Jeff
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12-17-2002, 04:04 PM	#128
NCHEVYHEVN Posts: n/a Location: User is:	Dayum that blazer lays hard. What kind of door handles are those.
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12-17-2002, 05:39 PM	#129
EyePoppin Registered User Age: 28 Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 5,780 Location: Grand Rapids, MI User is: OffLine	Quote: Originally posted by hoppin01s10 Well I disagree thats what I thought to. So I went ahead a bd it 3 1/4". The rocker sticks below the frame about 1/4". Oh well thou looks like i'll be dragging them smooth. Oh yah I performed this bd on my 01 S-10 xtended cab. Jeff i did 3.25 and worked fine on mine...are u sure u didnt go 3?
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12-17-2002, 05:42 PM	#130
Got_20s body dropped Age: 33 Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 4,384 Location: Whitby, Ontario, Canada User is: OffLine	quote: Originally posted by hoppin01s10 Well I disagree thats what I thought to. So I went ahead a bd it 3 1/4". The rocker sticks below the frame about 1/4". Oh well thou looks like i'll be dragging them smooth. Oh yah I performed this bd on my 01 S-10 xtended cab. Jeff Quote: Originally posted by EyePoppin i did 3.25 and worked fine on mine...are u sure u didnt go 3? That would be 3 1/2 then. Just playin.
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12-18-2002, 05:59 PM	#131
hoppin01s10 Registered User Age: 31 Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 132 Location: Lansing, MI User is: OffLine	I'm sure I only went 3 1/4". Anyways it don't matter to me , they'll be flat with the frame soon. Jeff
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01-01-2003, 08:46 PM	#132
Altophobic praise the lower'd Age: 25 Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,074 Location: So Cal. User is: OffLine	exhaust on stockfloor BD i was wondering what everyones ideas were for running exhaust one a bodyless bodydrop.??????? tks scott
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01-01-2003, 09:26 PM	#133
NCHEVYHEVN Posts: n/a Location: User is:	Re: exhaust on stockfloor BD Quote: Originally posted by Altophobic i was wondering what everyones ideas were for running exhaust one a bodyless bodydrop.??????? tks scott So u are not going to cut the body to bring it down but build a frame so it lays body???
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01-01-2003, 11:48 PM	#134
Altophobic praise the lower'd Age: 25 Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,074 Location: So Cal. User is: OffLine	im not sure exactly what you were asking but, i am going to bodydrop my bed so that i wont have any holes in it when i get my 20s to lay. and they put spacers between the bed and the frame so that in the future IF i want to bodydrop it to the body lays then i just need to remve the spacrers and it will lay down. scott
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01-04-2003, 12:58 AM	#135
JoshJPKustoms Draggin body member Age: 24 Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,141 Location: Minot North Dakota User is: OffLine	Some more picsof b/d process Pics
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01-04-2003, 01:00 AM	#136
JoshJPKustoms Draggin body member Age: 24 Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 1,141 Location: Minot North Dakota User is: OffLine	more More
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