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low 84 · 11-17-2002, 02:54 AM

i'm going to try to compile as many pics of our typed trucks dropped as i can find. so please post pics of yours or any dropped 73-87's. and if you know what size drop it is please post that with the pic so i can use it as the file name.

here is mine

5/7 drop

low 84 · 11-17-2002, 03:00 AM

i've alway liked this one. clean and simple

5/7

?

2.5/4

3/5

?

low 84 · 11-17-2002, 03:02 AM

3/6

this is a local friend of mines truck thats about 5/7

**swervin ervin** · 11-17-2002, 03:08 AM

Here you go.

4/5

low 84 · 11-17-2002, 03:13 AM

bagged

guessing about 4/6

?

ToonMan · 11-17-2002, 03:29 AM

[img] http://www.projectstreetrods.com/HRT...evyToonman.jpg[/img}

Here's Mine!!!!!!!!

ToonMan · 11-17-2002, 03:33 AM

Oops

[img]http://www.projectstreetrods.com/HR...hevyToonman.jpg[/img}

I have 1 1/2" dropped coils with 2 1/2" dropped spindles in front and a 5" Spring Mod Drop in the rear.

bigblock73 · 11-17-2002, 10:03 AM

for Rob...

LOHRTBT · 11-17-2002, 11:13 AM

4/6

ocbaud · 11-17-2002, 11:32 AM

this one:

http://73-87chevytrucks.com/preshustruck5.jpg

and this one:

http://www.visual-insanity.org/jarron/jarron1.jpg

i really like a lot

MylilBowTie · 11-17-2002, 03:55 PM

this truck looks nice, is it a lwb? What size tires and rims is he running?

Cole's 87 · 11-17-2002, 04:48 PM

Hey Low 84 . I saw your buddys truck at the Super Chevy Show in Houston. Man that is one clean truck. Got picks of it on my site in the SCS section.

87 STEPPER · 11-17-2002, 04:50 PM

3/4

Here she is

chauffeur · 11-17-2002, 07:38 PM

3/4 going to a 5/7 in the spring

low 84 · 11-17-2002, 08:02 PM

thanks for the pics so far everyone.

regarding the purple/silver truck, that is a local guy i know, Jarron. the truck is real clean inside and out, pretty much stock crate motor under the hood. its a short wheel base. 17 inch rims i'll check on the tire sizes, i know the rears are 275's. i'm buying the hood from him too, to put on my truck. its real nice glass hood, that has finished sufaces on both sides. i think its 3 inches. he goes to alot of shows in the austin/huston areas with the club he is in called visual insanity.

Izzy · 11-17-2002, 09:00 PM

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...threadid=30546

There's my bucket.

Bagged.

fanman · 11-18-2002, 07:47 PM

low 84: Have you had the frontend alligned since you lowered it? Cause it looks like there is alot of front camber.

gchemist · 11-18-2002, 09:46 PM

**swervin ervin** · 11-18-2002, 09:52 PM

fanman,

I was thinking the same thing. I meant to ask Ryan the same thing and forgot about.

Mike

low 84 · 11-18-2002, 10:07 PM

hehe, you think thats alot of camber, eh? you should have seen it right after i finished the front end. it looked like / \ and yeah i did have it aligned after i dropped it. it does look like there is about 1 degree of negative camber on both sides but thats as close as the shop could get it and the tire ware is pretty even. but thanks for noticing:p

**swervin ervin** · 11-18-2002, 10:38 PM

Ryan, did you use 3" coils? If so this is the reason. My front end guy, which BTW, is the best I've ever used had trouble with mine when I had the supposedly 2" Eibach coils in my truck. He couldn't get it to factory specs no matter what he did. I think someone messed up with them anyway, they were really 2.5" coils going by other things I measured them with.

Anyway, he told me they make offset shafts for the upper control arm that will fix this. What is wrong is he ran out of threads on the control arm mounting bolts.

Ahh, part of the fun of dropping a truck, right?

Mike

dacanuck · 11-18-2002, 11:00 PM

My work in progress. 1987 C10 3/4 drop. This is the truck I want to change the fuel tank location in. In this pic the rear had only been lowered 2"

low 84 · 11-18-2002, 11:22 PM

acutauly mike i used 2.5 inchers. but close enough. the bigger the coil drop the harder they are to get alinged. i know the guys shop that did it and they know there stuff. and got it as close as they could. i've got a few thousand on it since the drop and don't have any major ware problems so its good enough for me. i had trouble getting the 64 aligned too and i only used 1.5 inch coils on it, you said it, the fun part of dropping a truck

just looked at the top pic agian too, the wheels are turned to the left a little in the pic which makes it look worse than it actualy is

low 84 · 11-19-2002, 02:55 AM

really low

?

low 84 · 11-19-2002, 02:58 AM

i stopped putting drop sizes b/c alot of the pics don't have them, when i make my album i'll put a guestimate of the drops

11-17-2002, 02:54 AM	#1
low 84 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,144	pics of dropped 73-87's i'm going to try to compile as many pics of our typed trucks dropped as i can find. so please post pics of yours or any dropped 73-87's. and if you know what size drop it is please post that with the pic so i can use it as the file name. here is mine 5/7 drop __________________ '51 F100, backhalf with a narrowed 9 and coil overs, 18.5" mickeys, monte front clip, +400" sbc in the works '05 1500 Crew Cab RIP '84 swb 5/7 drop, solid cammed 408 w/ fully ported dart heads, th350 w/ 10 inch hughes, 12 bolt w/ 3.73 richmonds and a locker '80 swb 4x4 in progress: 7" lift, 350 th350/np205, d44 and 1.5" ORD tie rod, 14BFF w/discs , armored diff covers, 40" MTR's

11-17-2002, 03:00 AM	#2
low 84 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,144	i've alway liked this one. clean and simple 5/7 ? 2.5/4 3/5 ? __________________ '51 F100, backhalf with a narrowed 9 and coil overs, 18.5" mickeys, monte front clip, +400" sbc in the works '05 1500 Crew Cab RIP '84 swb 5/7 drop, solid cammed 408 w/ fully ported dart heads, th350 w/ 10 inch hughes, 12 bolt w/ 3.73 richmonds and a locker '80 swb 4x4 in progress: 7" lift, 350 th350/np205, d44 and 1.5" ORD tie rod, 14BFF w/discs , armored diff covers, 40" MTR's

11-17-2002, 03:02 AM	#3
low 84 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,144	3/6 this is a local friend of mines truck thats about 5/7 __________________ '51 F100, backhalf with a narrowed 9 and coil overs, 18.5" mickeys, monte front clip, +400" sbc in the works '05 1500 Crew Cab RIP '84 swb 5/7 drop, solid cammed 408 w/ fully ported dart heads, th350 w/ 10 inch hughes, 12 bolt w/ 3.73 richmonds and a locker '80 swb 4x4 in progress: 7" lift, 350 th350/np205, d44 and 1.5" ORD tie rod, 14BFF w/discs , armored diff covers, 40" MTR's Last edited by low 84; 11-17-2002 at 03:05 AM.

11-17-2002, 03:08 AM	#4
swervin ervin You get what you pay for Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Cherryville, NC Posts: 4,798	Here's mine. Here you go. 4/5 __________________ Mike 1985 Chevy C-10

11-17-2002, 03:13 AM	#5
low 84 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,144	bagged guessing about 4/6 ? __________________ '51 F100, backhalf with a narrowed 9 and coil overs, 18.5" mickeys, monte front clip, +400" sbc in the works '05 1500 Crew Cab RIP '84 swb 5/7 drop, solid cammed 408 w/ fully ported dart heads, th350 w/ 10 inch hughes, 12 bolt w/ 3.73 richmonds and a locker '80 swb 4x4 in progress: 7" lift, 350 th350/np205, d44 and 1.5" ORD tie rod, 14BFF w/discs , armored diff covers, 40" MTR's Last edited by low 84; 11-17-2002 at 03:19 AM.

11-17-2002, 03:29 AM	#6
ToonMan Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Oregon Posts: 575	[img] http://www.projectstreetrods.com/HRT...evyToonman.jpg[/img} Here's Mine!!!!!!!! __________________ Rob the ToonMan 56 Chevy Cameo----Custom, [Turquoise] 67 Chevy C10 Short Fleetside (Black & White) 63 Trailorboat-------Teardrop Style Trailer 69 Honda CM90

11-17-2002, 03:33 AM	#7
ToonMan Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Oregon Posts: 575	Oops [img]http://www.projectstreetrods.com/HR...hevyToonman.jpg[/img} I have 1 1/2" dropped coils with 2 1/2" dropped spindles in front and a 5" Spring Mod Drop in the rear. __________________ Rob the ToonMan 56 Chevy Cameo----Custom, [Turquoise] 67 Chevy C10 Short Fleetside (Black & White) 63 Trailorboat-------Teardrop Style Trailer 69 Honda CM90

11-17-2002, 10:03 AM	#8
bigblock73 yeller Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Twin Cities Posts: 13,826	for Rob...

11-17-2002, 11:13 AM	#9
LOHRTBT BeWarE tHe eViL CrAnkTOe! Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Yukon, OK Posts: 3,605	4/6 __________________ ~Dave~ You can call me Mike, Mike Oxlong - 1986 Chevy SWB - Stock for now - *1986 Chevy Custom SWB* *Stolen 6/26/05* - 1985 Chevy SWB SOLD - 1999 T/A Some mods www.cardomain.com/id/ramairdave AIM Screenname - Jester84

11-17-2002, 11:32 AM	#10
ocbaud Garage Queen Material Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: USA Posts: 4,129	this one: http://73-87chevytrucks.com/preshustruck5.jpg and this one: http://www.visual-insanity.org/jarron/jarron1.jpg i really like a lot

11-17-2002, 03:55 PM	#11
MylilBowTie Right turn Clyde Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 2,911	lil more info this truck looks nice, is it a lwb? What size tires and rims is he running? __________________ 1974 C25 LWB: 454 4bbl Carb / TH400 / 3.73 1992 Camaro RS 305 TBI

11-17-2002, 04:48 PM	#12
Cole's 87 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 272	Hey Low 84 . I saw your buddys truck at the Super Chevy Show in Houston. Man that is one clean truck. Got picks of it on my site in the SCS section.

11-17-2002, 04:50 PM	#13
87 STEPPER STILL PLAYS WITH TRUX Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Melbourne, Fla. Posts: 2,764	3/4 Here she is __________________ ~~Bruce~~ MY 87 STEPPER MY 99 2D/WD TAHOE

11-17-2002, 07:38 PM	#14
chauffeur Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: New Bedford, MA Posts: 43	3/4 going to a 5/7 in the spring Attached Images

11-17-2002, 08:02 PM	#15
low 84 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,144	thanks for the pics so far everyone. regarding the purple/silver truck, that is a local guy i know, Jarron. the truck is real clean inside and out, pretty much stock crate motor under the hood. its a short wheel base. 17 inch rims i'll check on the tire sizes, i know the rears are 275's. i'm buying the hood from him too, to put on my truck. its real nice glass hood, that has finished sufaces on both sides. i think its 3 inches. he goes to alot of shows in the austin/huston areas with the club he is in called visual insanity. __________________ '51 F100, backhalf with a narrowed 9 and coil overs, 18.5" mickeys, monte front clip, +400" sbc in the works '05 1500 Crew Cab RIP '84 swb 5/7 drop, solid cammed 408 w/ fully ported dart heads, th350 w/ 10 inch hughes, 12 bolt w/ 3.73 richmonds and a locker '80 swb 4x4 in progress: 7" lift, 350 th350/np205, d44 and 1.5" ORD tie rod, 14BFF w/discs , armored diff covers, 40" MTR's



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11-17-2002, 09:00 PM	#16
Izzy Trucker. Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Fort Worth, TX Posts: 1,364	http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...threadid=30546 There's my bucket. Bagged.

11-18-2002, 07:47 PM	#17
fanman Registered User Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Auburn, MI Posts: 156	low 84: Have you had the frontend alligned since you lowered it? Cause it looks like there is alot of front camber. __________________ "When I start my car in the morning I want the neighbors to think the world is comming to an end." Homer Simpson I'm not stuck, I've still got some gas left"

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11-18-2002, 09:52 PM	#19
swervin ervin You get what you pay for Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Cherryville, NC Posts: 4,798	fanman, I was thinking the same thing. I meant to ask Ryan the same thing and forgot about. Mike

11-18-2002, 10:07 PM	#20
low 84 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,144	hehe, you think thats alot of camber, eh? you should have seen it right after i finished the front end. it looked like / \ and yeah i did have it aligned after i dropped it. it does look like there is about 1 degree of negative camber on both sides but thats as close as the shop could get it and the tire ware is pretty even. but thanks for noticing:p __________________ '51 F100, backhalf with a narrowed 9 and coil overs, 18.5" mickeys, monte front clip, +400" sbc in the works '05 1500 Crew Cab RIP '84 swb 5/7 drop, solid cammed 408 w/ fully ported dart heads, th350 w/ 10 inch hughes, 12 bolt w/ 3.73 richmonds and a locker '80 swb 4x4 in progress: 7" lift, 350 th350/np205, d44 and 1.5" ORD tie rod, 14BFF w/discs , armored diff covers, 40" MTR's

11-18-2002, 10:38 PM	#21
swervin ervin You get what you pay for Join Date: Dec 1999 Location: Cherryville, NC Posts: 4,798	Ryan, did you use 3" coils? If so this is the reason. My front end guy, which BTW, is the best I've ever used had trouble with mine when I had the supposedly 2" Eibach coils in my truck. He couldn't get it to factory specs no matter what he did. I think someone messed up with them anyway, they were really 2.5" coils going by other things I measured them with. Anyway, he told me they make offset shafts for the upper control arm that will fix this. What is wrong is he ran out of threads on the control arm mounting bolts. Ahh, part of the fun of dropping a truck, right? Mike

11-18-2002, 11:00 PM	#22
dacanuck Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Toronto, Ontario Posts: 85	My work in progress. 1987 C10 3/4 drop. This is the truck I want to change the fuel tank location in. In this pic the rear had only been lowered 2" Attached Images Last edited by dacanuck; 11-18-2002 at 11:05 PM.

11-18-2002, 11:22 PM	#23
low 84 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,144	acutauly mike i used 2.5 inchers. but close enough. the bigger the coil drop the harder they are to get alinged. i know the guys shop that did it and they know there stuff. and got it as close as they could. i've got a few thousand on it since the drop and don't have any major ware problems so its good enough for me. i had trouble getting the 64 aligned too and i only used 1.5 inch coils on it, you said it, the fun part of dropping a truck just looked at the top pic agian too, the wheels are turned to the left a little in the pic which makes it look worse than it actualy is __________________ '51 F100, backhalf with a narrowed 9 and coil overs, 18.5" mickeys, monte front clip, +400" sbc in the works '05 1500 Crew Cab RIP '84 swb 5/7 drop, solid cammed 408 w/ fully ported dart heads, th350 w/ 10 inch hughes, 12 bolt w/ 3.73 richmonds and a locker '80 swb 4x4 in progress: 7" lift, 350 th350/np205, d44 and 1.5" ORD tie rod, 14BFF w/discs , armored diff covers, 40" MTR's

11-19-2002, 02:55 AM	#24
low 84 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,144	really low ? ? __________________ '51 F100, backhalf with a narrowed 9 and coil overs, 18.5" mickeys, monte front clip, +400" sbc in the works '05 1500 Crew Cab RIP '84 swb 5/7 drop, solid cammed 408 w/ fully ported dart heads, th350 w/ 10 inch hughes, 12 bolt w/ 3.73 richmonds and a locker '80 swb 4x4 in progress: 7" lift, 350 th350/np205, d44 and 1.5" ORD tie rod, 14BFF w/discs , armored diff covers, 40" MTR's

11-19-2002, 02:58 AM	#25
low 84 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 2,144	i stopped putting drop sizes b/c alot of the pics don't have them, when i make my album i'll put a guestimate of the drops __________________ '51 F100, backhalf with a narrowed 9 and coil overs, 18.5" mickeys, monte front clip, +400" sbc in the works '05 1500 Crew Cab RIP '84 swb 5/7 drop, solid cammed 408 w/ fully ported dart heads, th350 w/ 10 inch hughes, 12 bolt w/ 3.73 richmonds and a locker '80 swb 4x4 in progress: 7" lift, 350 th350/np205, d44 and 1.5" ORD tie rod, 14BFF w/discs , armored diff covers, 40" MTR's

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