thats just badass!! what kind of lift you suspect with that? will you untuck 22s?

 

taylor, you rock! Avdime, I originally was going to go with a 22 in the rear, so I believe thats how they designed it. I ended up going with 20s if you remember from earlier in the thread, maybe we'll step it up later in the future, for now, 20s will do.

 

Neato Gang.

Are you guys designing these link setups or just putting them together where they end up?

 

Are you guys designing these link setups or just putting them together where they end up?

i was kind of wondering the same thing. It seemed to me that if i was going to do a 4 link with bag on bar i would want to do some kind of lift ratio. At full lift on those bags (exactly the same if the bags were on the axle or behind) the ride will be super rigid.

dont get me wrong it looks awesome but i dont see how the axle isn't going to move side to side when the bushings start to wear...

just my 2 cents

 

awesome

 

gosh, I feel bad, I still havent posted pictures, I will try my hardest to get them this afternoon. The girlfriends camera will do the trick, as I lost the charger for mine...:rotf:

 

umm the bends in the tube is the whole tringulation

 

richie has been doing bent tubing for a while, And has never had problems!
My buddys toyota on 20s done by richie earlier this summer has those bars and we couldnt get any side to side motion on his axle!

 

And yes taylor actually dream up all these designs puts them to paper then to build!

 

come on now guys, dont doubt the builder!!! ( I am going to try to post new pictures tomorrow, but as you've seen, my trying often fails! ) everyone take it easy!

 

I'm not doubting anyone. My questions was simple.

Does he build these on paper/CAD first or does he physically sit there and play around until he finds something he likes.

It's pretty easy to see the triangulation, shit it's got twice as much as my three link and mine works fine.

 

I'm not doubting anyone. My questions was simple.

Does he build these on paper/CAD first or does he physically sit there and play around until he finds something he likes.

It's pretty easy to see the triangulation, shit it's got twice as much as my three link and mine works fine.

i wasnt talking about you dman! your question was "a ok" and I wasnt giving anybody a hard time, just having fun!

 

LOL

jeesh, what an question.

Yes, everything is drawn up in CAD and BendTech before its made, the frame the link, the control arms everything.

Riche has been doing 4-links like that for about 4 years now, the first one he installed with bent triangulation bars like that has been on the road for over 20,000 miles, and his has yet to wear out, or show any signs of wear like that. Your theroy is alittle off, and i guess it would depend on what you meant in your timetable.

I dont know why most people on here, or auctually, only a select few, seem to think that everything done is just taken at a shot in the dark, hoping it will work. LOL , Ill say it very clearly, if these designs didnt work, we would not use them, plain and simple. These are designs and methods that have been proven BY US, not by taking other peoples words or just thinking it will.....these are designs that are on the road right now, on vehicles that riche has built in the past years, that work every day.

The rear didnt need a ton of lift since it was going to be limited by its shocks, we placed teh bag thare so that everything would stay under the notch and have no clearance issues, it gets enough lift to untuck a 22 if needed, which is all the customer requested.

i appriceate both your concern jerid and doug, it shows were atleast doing something right. hopefully i answered your concerns above.


have a good one!


Taylor

 

woo hoo! now, hows it going with the cab there taylor?

 

you def answered the questions. I just haven't seen the 4 link's like the one above on a vehicle so i was unsure if it was going to work. I was more looking at 6 points on the axle...it seems that if this dude had any thoughts on side to side (in which i seriously doubt he will anyway) that 6 points on an axle will bind.

you guys do excellent work as far as being clean as possble and taylor i think that your frame was an excellent idea...i guess I PERSONALLY wouldn't do it the way that you guys did only for rigidity.

 

My question was more of creativity question then a "will it work." Just trying to figure how some of the bigger names in the business do it. Where I work every single thing is designed and tested virtually before anything else. But sometimes it's cool so sit around a frame and just toss ideas around in the real world. That's all i was wondering. No harm meant.

 

this truck is lookin really good guys, you do some killer work...

 

rut roh shaggy...

 

hey theres a hole in my truck! yikes....

 

looks killer

 

god damn thats a good pic from a phone!!
trucks looks awsome kenny got to see it in person yesterday. hopefully next year well hang out at a show and drinks some beers

 

yes sir alan, we'll have to do it incognito as I will still be 20

 

got some new pics for ya kenny, of the tubs, and what not.


cant upload them untill tommorrow tho, my dog just started playing tug-o-war with my upload cable.....gettin a new one tommorrow morning.

Taylor

 

got some new pics for ya kenny, of the tubs, and what not.


cant upload them untill tommorrow tho, my dog just started playing tug-o-war with my upload cable.....gettin a new one tommorrow morning.

Taylor

sounds good taylor, :boom: damn those pitbulls!

 

alright everybody, as I approach reassembly time, I have an opinion to ask of you. The front of the truck, I will be upgrading the headlights, corner lights, and probably putting in a billet grille, whatever. For the bumper, what do you think would be fitting? I like the SS grille, the one that looks like the trailblazer SS, but have heard it doesnt fit well.. I could go with stock, but wont it need some sort of valence to go on it in order to completely lay out in front?

 

are you talking about the ss bumper or grille insert?

 

the ss bumper, from street scene.

this one, but i have heard that it fits like crap. I like the looks of it, but cannot have it fitting like crap!

 

probably end up doing something like this, with the chrome on my white paint, i think itd look killer!

 

How about the smoothy that grant sales? You can get it in any length so it can lay out and then have some lights frenched into it. There is a red and black 2 dr blazer layed out to the doors with it and it looks really good i'll try and find a pic for you.

 

http://www.s10forum.com/forum/f143/body-dropped-on-22-or-bigger-pics-196480/

Look at the pics in this thread there are plenty of ideas there.