Tri-five Chevy truck w/flipped rear axel...

Anyone have pics of this set up? Im running mono leafs in the rear end in mine and I wanna go lower, I already have a c-notch for it so I figured why not?

 

Take a pic and flip it over. Now in your mind just don't flip the springs and the rearend . Ok ok, just put the rear on top of the spring with new spring pads under it and put u bolts in the otherway.

 

I know how to do it, just wanna see pics of it done on other trucks...

 

with the stock multi leaf springs , and putting the rear end on top of the springs , lowers it 6" i will post a pic tomarrow when its daylight , and without lowering the front , it looks REAL stupid !

 

Would that be the Cudahy look

 

not a chevy, but l put the axle on top of the leafs in my '48 dodge truck. it is a 12 bolt chevy rearend and 1 1/2 aluminum wedges to get a 2% drive shaft angle. it lowered it 6" as filthy frank stated.

the wheels with the hole are before, the 5-spokes are after the rearend was moved.

hope this helps,

Later

 

Cool thanks for the info and pics!

 

I have stock leaf springs on my 57 and no "C" notch. When I flipped the rearend it was too low. By too low I mean that the pumpkin was hitting the bed floor. I did not want to alter the bed floor. I ended up removing 3 leafs and installing coilover shocks in place of the stock shocks. The ride height is good and the spring rate seems fine. Because of the drop, my driveshaft was too long and had to be shortened. Good luck. Sam

 

no johnny boy , that is not the cudahy look .the cudahy look is S****ING on the street ! like a cholo ! dont think you're high and mighty cuz you came from bell ! johnny boy !

 

...if you use longer shackles, you can flip the rear hanger to the top of the frame and install the rearend on top of the springs with or w/o blocks to lower your truck.
On mine I didn't need to notch the frame...

 

On my 58 SWB, I c-notched the frame, flipped a 8-bolt Chevy rearend and reversed the shackles to get the back low. In retrospect, I should have left the shackles alone, because it is probably too low. I used a Volare frontend to lower the front

Don't forget to reset the pinion angle. Stock angle is about 15 degrees. I cut that in half to about 7 degrees with a hardware store angle gauge, and it seems to work fine. Skull likes 2 degrees. I buy the spring pads from Speedway. Set the axle on two jackstands. Set the pads at zero degrees, and manipulate the nose with a floor jack to get the proper angle, then tack weld the pads in place. Double check the angle before welding.

 

hope this helps , front axle with disc is in the cl***ifieds.subframe is bed waiting to be grafted.

 

Perfect thats exactly what I was lookin for! Thanks! Anyone got anymore?

 

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