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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Austin,Tx
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help with air bags please
OK ive got air baggs on my truck, on the rear and im trying to drop it all the way on the ground. but the air bagg set up i have even after i c notch it itll still not lay flat . i have the air bagg set up from early classic so can some one let me know a bagg set up thats not thousands of dallors tha will lay my truck on the ground in the rear and then i will bagg the front please help
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Re: help with air baggs please
Can't help you on the baggs but I sure do like the color on your truck with the wheels & white Walls. I love it!
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Re: help with air baggs please
frisco kid...all I can ay "White On".
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Re: help with air baggs please
got any pix of the rear suspension?
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Re: help with air baggs please
More specifically, let us know more about your set-up so we can help you. We need to know p/n's, what bags, brackets, air components, etc......
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Re: help with air baggs please
thanks alot about the truck, you got a prety cool truck and golf cart your self , i would love to have that in austin at lake travis.
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Re: help with air baggs please
love the truck
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Re: help with air baggs please
I don't think you will be able to get the rear to touch the ground unless you you have a STEP notch. You will also need to cut the bed or raise the floor.
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Re: help with air baggs please
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A bolt-in c-notch will allow it to only drop a little more & then the rear hits the bed floor (so the floor has to go even before the 'step notch' is required). Quote:
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Re: help with air baggs please
you're not happy with that? you already gotta watch out for every bump in the road. i drive a lowered truck too, and i used to feel like if it didn't slam the ground and tuck rims it wasn't cool, but after driving a lowered truck everyday, i'm glad it's as far off the ground as my honda, and i've changed my tastes to "that's low enough for me". on a daily driver you're always under, it sure helps to have a little ground clearance.
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Re: help with air baggs please
As mentioned, you would have to raise or at least put a big notch in the bed floor to go any lower. And if you haven't tucked the exhaust within the crossmembers, you're not going any lower than that anyways.
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Re: help with air baggs please
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Re: help with air baggs please
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the bumper's in the stock place but the brackets didn't position the bumper right so i did modify the brackets to do so. the keg is so cool in my opinion but i still live at home, and dad ruled it as unsafe. you better believe as soon as i move out i'll have that keg in the bed. |
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Re: help with air baggs please
Well if you want to lay frame on that truck it takes some work. We are in the middle of our shop truck build using a 71' LWB to start and its way more complicated than it looks. And if your going to do a Step notch I would recommend finding a good fabricator to make a crooked notch to match the frame. If you use a straight 8 piece not or even square tubing then it looks way outta place in my opinion. Heres how our notch came out.....
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Re: help with air baggs please
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There are a couple of companies that offer weld-in step notch kits for the 'crooked' 6X-72 GM truck frames & one that might soon offer a bolt-in.
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Re: help with air baggs please
We could build one to bolt into just about anything. I could modify this one to bolt in. But I dont wanna get into production of anything. We pride ourselves in 1-off custom work.
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Re: help with air baggs please
dragginass, who are you? Company?
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Join Date: Aug 2008
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Re: help with air baggs please
Sry. I didnt post a newbie thread.
My Name is Bryan. But have always gone by Woody. I (along with a buddy of mine) run a shop called Honest Abe's Fab Shoppe outta Sanford, FL. Were just North of Orlando. We do custom metal Fabrication and Specialize in Air ride suspension and Frame work. I have been into the mini truck scene for about 5 years now. Have had 5 mini trucks and just recently purchased a 71' Chevy LWB as our Shop truck. We are going for the whole Speed Shop look and as soon as I get a little closer to completion I will post all of the build pics of it. Here are a few of my previous trucks.... ![]() ![]() ![]() Apologize for whoring this thread. |
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Re: help with air baggs please
Thanks
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#21 |
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Re: help with air baggs please
a thanks for all the replys im going to cut the bed out then get a c notch
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Re: help with air baggs please
Just making sure you know a C- notch will most likely only get you about 2-3" lower at the most. You will need a step notch for the rear to have the frame on the ground.
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Re: help with air baggs please
Oh it'll get enough Notch.
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Re: help with air baggs please
I think he was talking to the original poster
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Re: help with air baggs please
He was. And I am telling him that it will be getting taken care of.
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