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Originally Posted by blazer_man
Sorry, been crazy busy. I have around 5" of ground clearance at the low point as it sits in the pics, the jig is a little deceiving. I am going with air bags, I have been checking up on them and hear nothing but positive things with respect to ride quality vs handling. Hope it isnt another damned fad!! I am not real concerned about ground clearance but getting the front tires to cooperate with the fenders and hood hinges is gonna take some doing. I got the x member built and squared up on the jig today and am (finally) getting going on the frame. I think I am going to use a 4 link with a wishbone in the back but I don't know yet. Does the diagonal 4 link you used seem to be pretty solid? I should have some progress pics up in the next couple of weeks.
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I know how it is. Have you channeled the body over the rails at all? I have doone hours of measuring and I don't see our front tires being tucked in that far. The way our chassis is designed, it gives us 5.5" of clearance at the kick up in the front. We have 6.5" under the rear cab mount which sets the frame rail at 1.2deg. With this setup the top of the front wheel opening should be at 26" with a 27" tire. The rear wheel opening should be 25" with the 30.5" tire. How close is this to what you have? The tri-angulated 4 bar we got from Morrison is a very nice set up. I debated alot coming from circle track racing. I was very close to putting a 3 link in with a watts link set up. The problem was the bracket on top of the rear end housing got too tall. I already am racing the flooor of the bed almost 3" and still c-notched the rail a bit. It is very well built and has good articulation. It will do +/- 3" on each side with no bind. My Dad (the owner) doesn't really care about dropping the truck to fair ground height. We are going for as clean a set up as possible and with pump, tanks, valves, hoses, wiring we just didn't feel it would hide well enough with the truck. I'm interested in keeping up with your progress. Where are you located? I kept the jig I used for the rails just in case I run across a blazer. They are bad a$$ and yours is no exception.
