Hey OGNC and maybe Killer too. Question about your truck

How is that truck(1958 f100)lowered? I've look thru the search for anything pretaining to the truck but cant find anything!
thanks

 

Courtney- call me too.

 

Jffro, I can tell you that Killer lowered his truck by doing an axle flip to the top of the springs. He had to work out some problems with bumpsteer and I'm sure other issues, but that is how he did it. Stock front axle. I don't know any more details. He can comment better and also add if he had to do any notching for suspension travel or other clearance.

 

Okay, before I answer I want to make it clear that the credit for this belongs to Killer. I never would have been able to figure this one out. But since the truck is sitting out in front of my house I went out and looked and here's the scoop.

1
He flipped the front axle and built some custom bracketry to do so.

2.
To get rid of the bump steer, Killer moved the steering box up (to level out the steering arm). The steering box now mounts to this giant bracket that rides on top of the frame rail directly above where the factory mounting holes are.

3.
Mod number 2 pushed the steering column 3-inches closer to the driver. Killer isn't a very big guy, but I am and lemme tell you that there have been times that I thought I was going to have to take off my shirt and rub myself down with bacon fat to be able to make it another mile behind the wheel of that truck. It also changed the angle of the column to make the feel for the driver less "bus" like.

4.
Even with all of the work Killer did (and it was a lot), the axle still bangs up against the frame going into driveways, over railroad tracks and through intersections. The frame would need to be notched if it were going to be left like this. I have an IFS from Classic Performance Products that I am going to be putting under the truck and all of the stock stuff will be seeing the business end of a sellers space at Pomona.

5.
And I don't know what anybody else on the board is talking about when they say that they wouldn't drive that truck on the freeway or for any long distances. I have put nearly 5000 miles (yes still on the bias plys) on that truck over the past two months and all I have done to it is convert it over to a spin-on oil filter, changed the oil, flushed the cooling system and put gas in it.

Thanks to Killer for the trade. It's really cool when you do a deal with someone and feel like you totally got treated fairly.

 

I rule.