lowered 86

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by radar1

All seemed to be great, until I was coming home from a local show. I went over a set of train tracks and caught the leading edge of the A-arms on the concrete in between the tracks, at about 10 mph. The truck stopped right now, killed the motor, and my buddy's glasses ended up under my feet. I limped the truck to the side of the side of the road, and had my wife come to rescue us. Picked truck up next day on rollback. I have since replaced the lower control arms and springs, this time I only cut a 1/2 coil. It raised the truck up near 1 inch. However the crossmember must have been twisted in the accident. The A-arm on the passenger side is touching the header. I am now awaiting the verdict from the body shop, on what it will take on the frame machine to straiten it out.
Pictures are from before I left for the show, and the train tracks that got me. All I can say is be careful with that much drop. It has really sucked this week. I have a build thread going with what I've done to the truck, look for Radar's 85 gmc.

We run a product assurance test looking for this type of condition. The specific test is called "the Dayton Railroad Crossing", named as a result of an incident that occured 50 or 60 years ago.

Many passenger cars will have a "skid" as part of the front engine crossmember in an attempt to keep the chassis from hooking on the railroad tracks. My '74 Chevelle did.

K