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I am starting to do my homework in advance. If things go my way, the Anglia and Transit will be sold at some point, after which I hope to buy an early 60's Chevy pickup truck. I made contact with a company yesterday who claim "Bagging" as one of their specialties. Well, I asked about a simple system that would drop and raise front, rear separately and then also do the whole lot in one, up and down. Ohhh, and simplicity and reliability thrown in.... I was quoted £3000.00 I do not want extreme frame laying or anything like that. Safety, comfort and decent ride are all important. Now I have no idea, and hope some of you low rider types my have more advice, tips etc. Here is a thread just on Bagged pickup trucks.... 67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/showthread.php?t=507577This is way more than I want, and I believe chassis has been notched etc.  I do not want to go to this sort of extreme.    This sort of level would be great.....  These are static dropped.....  This would be perfect   |
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Great replies. Thank you mate.
If a truck already has airbags fitted, is that a good or bad thing?
I think it is not a notched frame.
Look at what this shows..... Air is shown toward the end.
Thanks again.
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I didn't see anything pertaining to air-ride on the vid?
I would say it's not worth going to the expense to air a stock frame truck, but already fitted doesn't matter either way, as long as your not paying a premium for having the air on it, over a non-aired truck.
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I didn't see anything pertaining to air-ride on the vid? I would say it's not worth going to the expense to air a stock frame truck, but already fitted doesn't matter either way, as long as your not paying a premium for having the air on it, over a non-aired truck. Just got home. I looked at the YouTube clip again. He shows the Air setup at about 4.40 and shows what works. Not great quality, but shows what is there, if you want to check it out again. |
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Am i right or wrong in thinking you can make somesort of homemade airbaging kit from varioud bits , maybe p38 range rover or something ?
Also grizz , google spazs bmw , i beleive that chap knocked up some sort of homemade job.
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I didn't see anything pertaining to air-ride on the vid? I would say it's not worth going to the expense to air a stock frame truck, but already fitted doesn't matter either way, as long as your not paying a premium for having the air on it, over a non-aired truck. Just got home. I looked at the YouTube clip again. He shows the Air setup at about 4.40 and shows what works. Not great quality, but shows what is there, if you want to check it out again. Can't really comment on it, Rian, all it shows is a couple of switches, some gauges, and the rear end go up and down by an inch or so. No idea what actual equipment is used [compressors, bags, valves] and it certainly doesn't look like the rear goes any lower than you can see in the video. I'd say that if the truck is for sale at a price you can afford and are happy with, then go ahead and buy it, but don't pay a premium for it because its got air fitted, its just not worth it on a stock frame truck. |
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If you go with aftermarket arms to replace the leaf springs with you can get it quite low, obviously not slammed, but probably low enough for your liking. One of the problems with air bagging a truck is that people place the air bag between the frame and axle, with arms you can move the bags behind or infront of the axle and get quite a bit more travel. The aftermarker leaf-spring replacing arms looks very simple, you could probably fab up a set yourself. I also think this is a waaay too of a good topic for the questions board, wasn't this supposed to be the place for one liners? This thread is better than most on the front page of the general board! Edit - This one from the link you posted is absolutely stunning, the stance is really spot on imho. It's on a stock frame, and if i understood correctly, on bags and leaf springs. So you could go a bit lower with the aforementioned arms.  |
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Last Edit: Mar 8, 2013 10:59:52 GMT by dude
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How low do you want to go? this is a static drop  I'm pretty sure it was driven daily. |
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I have realized that Static will be more than enough and something I can do myself at home.
So Static it will be.
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Moving this to Tech discussion dude has it spot on, Questions is for those ridiculous no effort one line question threads. Grizz sir, you have ask a lovely question with supporting material  |
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Last Edit: Mar 8, 2013 14:09:37 GMT by HoTWire
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If you go with aftermarket arms to replace the leaf springs with you can get it quite low, obviously not slammed, but probably low enough for your liking. One of the problems with air bagging a truck is that people place the air bag between the frame and axle, with arms you can move the bags behind or infront of the axle and get quite a bit more travel. The aftermarker leaf-spring replacing arms looks very simple, you could probably fab up a set yourself. I also think this is a waaay too of a good topic for the questions board, wasn't this supposed to be the place for one liners? This thread is better than most on the front page of the general board! Edit - This one from the link you posted is absolutely stunning, the stance is really spot on imho. It's on a stock frame, and if I understood correctly, on bags and leaf springs. So you could go a bit lower with the aforementioned arms. No leaf springs on these trucks, they are coils all round. |
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