lowered my buddy's swb s/s on 22's today....

[danheit]

Just thought I would throw a couple pics up. One of my buddies has been dying for a C-10 ever since I got mine. I found him this one for an easy trade. Then we found him some 22's for $200. Talked him into buying a 3/5 set of springs on black friday from brothers for $88/set. Got around to dropping the rear today in about 2 hrs. Ran into a few little issues, like having to cut off the bottom bolts. I think it looks pretty decent for a couple hours worth of work. Just need to build him an adjustable track bar now, and we should be good to go on the rear! Tomorrow I will do the front, wire up a 12si alternator for him, and cut out and weld in new inner and outer rockers (which were also on sale for Black Friday for $20 for inner and outer combined!)

[cool68]

looking good. with all of the $$ saved with parts deals maybe he can afford taller rear tires

[sduckworth13]

Looks great, your a hella of a friend. I wish I had just one like you. Nice job on the truck.

[Codez67Chevy]

Sweet truck. I'm going for that same stance. I wanna see the finished product. What size of tires is he running? I also would like to know if you run into any issues when driving it around with that set-up.

[danheit]

Ha! Thanks. He's not much of a mechanic, and this way, instead of having to spend my money on buying more trucks, I can let him do it, and spend HIS money! End result is the same, I still get to work on a new one and drive it around for a bit, but get to give it back when I want my driveway space back!

Cool68, you are correct in the lack of tire height, but I will say, it is amazing how expensive tires for 22's are!! Used ones around here were around 120 each! I don't see him doing that in the near future. I'm still pushing him to save up for an alignment so he doesn't tear up the front end after the drop!

[danheit]

Codez67Chevy, I'm getting ready to go out right now and start on the front (wife had me christmas shopping all morning!) I will let you know how it does.

[Codez67Chevy]

Sweet. Thanks man.

[danheit]

Codez, put the front 3" on without a hitch. Drove around a bit, and the truck felt great, but I didn't get up to any speed, as the rear springs are not completely bolted on (had to get new bolts for the bottom spring cups since I had to cut them off, haven't put them on yet. I also don't want to put too many miles on here without an alignment since he's got bologna wrappers on for tires. All in all, truck looks great, but I would certainly put a 2" block in the rear. The truck has a pretty decent rake with the 3/5. Let me know if you have any other questions, in the mean time I will get those tire sizes for you. Just for comparison, I took his old springs, cut a single coil off, and am putting them on the front of my long bed. I will throw a photo up for you of that as well.







(and please don't judge me for all the Fords in my driveway. The C10 gets the garage space! Sadly, I have 2 more fords that aren't in that pic!)