Djm flip kit. Made from top grade modeling clay?

[legendman]

Originally Posted by INSIDIOUS '86

From the way they look to be made it is entirely possible. They are just stamped thick steel.

What I am thinking is the steel isn't the same quality as American steel.
Like the crap they make wrenched and sockets out off.

[Square_78]

On my DJM flip kit, i bought my u-bolts locally and got the best ones I could have made. They were like $60. I dont trust cheap u-bolts. I would definatley not use a flip kit for any kind of performance truck.

[INSIDIOUS '86]

Just a reminder. Since I don't make money I had to keep these in and be very carefull driving it for the past few months. I bought some mopar spring perches and welded myself a flipkit and got some new u bolts that are grade 8.


I urge anybody that has this problem or knows someone with this kit to come forward so we confront the maker (djm suspension) of this crap and let them know this is not ,ok not safe and unprofessional. The last two weeks I've been driving every time I let off the gas my axle would shift and my truck would dart to one side of the road. And I know my entire front is good cause ALL is new moog parts and energy suspension

Good luck everybody keep the rubber on the ground and keep the wheels spinning and the beavers grinning
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[Square_78]

Thats crazy! Maybe you need to put a smaller motor in your truck

[cory d]

take a road trip and bring those with you. then leave them there. prefferably on the other side of a broken window

580 West 184th Street
Gardena, CA 90248

Originally Posted by INSIDIOUS '86

keep the wheels spinning and the beavers grinning
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yea right dude, only the 67-72 guys get the chicks, i have only found two girls that like my truck. BS if you ask me, whats not attractive about a big square

[INSIDIOUS '86]

Originally Posted by cory d

take a road trip and bring those with you. then leave them there. prefferably on the other side of a broken window

580 West 184th Street
Gardena, CA 90248




yea right dude, only the 67-72 guys get the chicks, i have only found two girls that like my truck. BS if you ask me, whats not attractive about a big square

Ha. The girls I know just asked how comfy the bench seat was
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[INSIDIOUS '86]

[QUOTE=cory d;5655874]take a road trip and bring those with you. then leave them there. prefferably on the other side of a broken window

580 West 184th Street
Gardena, CA 90248

May as well call this Mexico lol and bye I don't think there is windows
Makes me wonder where my drop spindles came from or are made of...:/


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[cory d]

they were made in compton by a couple of crips that used your money for some gats and 40's of olde elglish

[eldogg]

I had a DJM drop kit on a Astro van years ago. No issues with it. I agree that the C-10 flip kit is a joke. I have one in my scrap pile out back if anyone wants it. Western Chassis or Belltech is a way better part.

[bnoon]

Originally Posted by cory d

...and 40's of olde elglish

Are they cleaning furniture? LOL Dang one letter difference, but it's the first thing that popped into my head.

[Stew_Magoo]

lemme guess, this stuff is Chinese, right?

[INSIDIOUS '86]

Could be djm is right next to a shipping port wher metal from china can be shipped in and they could bend it or assemble the kit In The little shack of theirs
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[thesickc10]

That is just ridiculous that they sell it. With my tax return last year i was going to get a full djm drop but ended up going with belltech in the back and western in the front. I called djm to figure out what i needed and the guy i spoke with actually talked me out of buying his product. He told me that all their products are sold as "bolt on" kits but in all actuality they are not. So i hung up the phone and saved 1000$

[Devillusion]

Originally Posted by 1LowToy

Welded on perches and factory spring plates can be drilled for a second hole to move the rear end back. You can drill the old perch to install some fine tuning bolts to fine the pinion angle too. I used a cheap trailer axle perch to do this one but a new real perch is in the works. If you will also notice the Ubolts should be 9/16". Several aftermarket lowering kits have 1/2" Ubolts. Back in the late 70s and 80s the metal was just starting to get poor. Now it's terrible. The metal used was likely not hardened steel.

Keep in mind your Ubolts need to be torqued evenly simular to a cylinder head.

Please tell me that you are no longer using this setup? Reminds me of hockey puck body lifts, and spring spacers. That is in no way how that should be done...just IMO.

[Slammed '87]

I bought a djm 3/4" drop kit years ago for an '87 GMC. It was coil springs and shackles and hangers. After a short time the coil springs sagged to approx a 5" drop and the shackle and hangers made the rear sit crooked as heck. I never was happy with their product, and haven't bought any of it since. In fact from what i have heard about them over the years, you couldn't give me a djm product. Belltech is all i have used since and the ONLY way to go imo.

[ivorton74]

Dang....to think I was considering buying a djm kit for my truck. I'm glad I didn't. Got an eBay flip bracket kit instead. Hope that don't turn out to be junk either. Guess I'll have to wait and see
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[wraprail]

So you ***** about the poor quality and how unsafe they are, how your rear axle is moving around and how lucky you are for not going to the drags...
But you continue to drive around on the same unsafe parts for THREE more months!
Even as your axle moves and your truck darts to one side of the road?
Funny.....

[pwtr02ss]

^agreed

[LEEVON]

I hate to bash...there are always going to be product failures but I had a DJM flip kit fail in a similar way, only it was for a 2007-up silverado. These are supposed to be adjustable, however with very, very little torque the upper plates split from their gussets/welds and bent like noodles. The steel is very soft, doesn't "feel" like A36. I pitched them in the trash.

[INSIDIOUS '86]

Originally Posted by wraprail

So you ***** about the poor quality and how unsafe they are, how your rear axle is moving around and how lucky you are for not going to the drags...
But you continue to drive around on the same unsafe parts for THREE more months!
Even as your axle moves and your truck darts to one side of the road?
Funny.....

Had a cut in hours and was financially exhausted after everthing else so yes. Luckily my work is only down the road. This truck is all I have to drive and despite being poor as dirt I can build it better than a lot better than most
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[65standard]

That is some scary stuff there. I'm glad I found this thread. Looks like I will not be going this route. Thanks for posting this review.

[68c10owner]

Originally Posted by 65standard

That is some scary stuff there. I'm glad I found this thread. Looks like I will not be going this route. Thanks for posting this review.

First you want others to do the work for you so you can make a set of these and now your resurrecting a 3 yr old thread. Doing good things bud.

[65standard]

Man you're like a gnat that won't go away. I've had enough of your **** talk.

[burb1085]

Belltech makes a superior set, for not much more. I know there's a pdf on the specs on one of the tech sites on this forum or another. Good luck brother!

[Tom]

This sh*t is crazy! I've used western chassie kits for my flips, many years of heavy use on them too. Glad this was brought back up, it really should be a sticky in the suspension forum!