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Originally Posted by MrGoodpliers
Hey, Livrat, I have been thinking about converting my Blazer as well. The plan would be a Porterbuilt trailing arm crossmember, stock trailing arms, adjustable track bar and 5 or 6 inch drop springs. Due to the 4x4 frame being straight, where will the coil springs line up? I know that a bracket will have to be made for the upper spring mount, but I'm wondering if there is enough room for the mounting bolt on the outside of the frame. Any pics of some of the conversions you have done would be great.
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In a mild spring drop, Porterbuilt makes it 3 ways, coils on the trailing arm with inboard mounted shocks in front of the axle, inboard coilovers with no springs on the trailing arms or coil overs at the end of the trailing arms with outboard mounts. I purchased the latter....However they never did deliver the upper shock mounts, well they sort of did but they were all wrong and for something unrelated, they also sent me a crossmember for inboard shocks that I now have to cut up to remove the mounts. At first they sent me a setup for a 2wd frame, which was all wrong.
When you are talking Blazers and converting from 4wd to 2wd, inches of drop seems kind of nonsense, mine will be about a 12" drop from where it started, and still be able to (just) slide a long neck beer bottle under the frame at mid point with a 28 1/2 inch tire. That's about the same as my factory lowered ZQ8 sport suspension optioned Sonoma (which would sit an inch higher than that with the same tires). Mine started with maybe a 3 to 4 inch lift and 33x12.50s. That puts the top of the tire at about 2 inches below the fender lip with the tread 2 inches in from it at the top.
In the end I'm not sure I'd do Porterbuilt again but that's another story.