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I would like to thank everyone on the comments... If anyone is near Modesto Ca hit me up. Or you can see this truck in a mag some day.
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valleycustom, just reiderating what everyone else has said, simply incredible work!!! im very curious as to your background, it seems building a frame like this would take a tremendous amount of knowledge or experience in engineering. id like to be able to build something like this one day, but just dont have enough knowledge or confidence to attempt it.
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what goes into building a frame table? is it built custom for each frame or is it a basic template like a jig? sorry for all the questions. i find this very interesting and would like to learn more about it. thanks again.
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awesome. thanks for the info, any pictures of the entire frame table? i can see just bits and pieces in your frame pics. also, do you use mostly tig or mig on your frames? your welds look great.
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I've been by jr's house to check this truck out. If you think it's awesome in these pics, you've got to see it in person. Hit him up if your local and go check it out.
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Man everytime I sign in I always come back to check this thread out because I am so impressed with your fab skills! Same pix each time and everytime I am still drooling over them. Being 19 and wanting to some day make a career of what your doing now do you have any advice on what a young kid should do? I know you mentioned practice and lots of it, but how in the hell did you learn about all the geometry involved? I plan to go to WyoTech next year to take chassis fab along with alomst everything else involved, but I am curious if you had any sources to learn what is involved with frame geometry?
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Yeah, the fabrication is just beautiful.....
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Awesome work man. I have been thinking about building a new front and rear suspension for my 68, and I have been trying to figure out what to do about bushings. For the upper and lower control arms in the front, as well as a triangulated 4-link in the back(I thought I was the only one who thought about reversing the upper links). I plan on building everything myself. I thought about just using heim ends for all the connections, but I think that would give a bit of a harsh ride. I want something that will feel really smooth going down the road. Any suggestions on bushings? I was thinking maybe some bushings for a monte carlo or something. Thanks, and again, NICE WORK.
Just out of curiosity, why did you reverse the upper links on your rear suspension? i.e. run them close together at the frame and far apart at the housing, rather than the conventional setup? I had something in mind when I thought about it, just wondering if you did it for the same reason. |
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Running a pair of bars diagonal in a 4 link is called a satchell link suspension. If set up right they work very well. The other thing they do is eliminate the need for a lateral locating device such as a panhard bar or watts link.
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I knew all that already, but most stock style satchell link suspensions have the links mounted to the pumpkin on the rear end housing, and spread far apart towards the frame. I thought about doing it the other way around so that when the truck goes around a corner and the bushings in the links squish a little it will actually push the outside rear wheel back, and bring the inside rear wheel forward just a hair. It should promote a slightly "loose" handling through the center of the corner, keeping the front end from washing out so easily, in turn making cornering faster. I race cars on the weekends, this is stuff that goes through my mind all day long every day, thought maybe it would be cool to apply it to my truck. |
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Theirs look to be the same thing only $5 cheaper. Looks like a really awesome piece. I am thinking about using them on my A-arms too. A little expensive but I bet they would feel awesome. Going to weld my 4-link to a floating axle 9-inch ![]() |
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Hey Valley,
Do you have your own shop or what? There's quite a few bagged trucks around Modesto, but I don't think I've seen any with quite that extensive of frame work. Very impressive. Hopefully I'll see it driving around modesto in the near future. ![]() |
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Hey XXL the chevelle had a stock 4 link ran that way.
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