My lowering plan

[Clv22p]

What a mess.

 

[Rock Crawler]

Oddly enough, when I dropped mine and set the adjustable track bar at the “stock” starting setting, my rear axle was centered and did not need any adjustment. It came out to be the same length as the factory one.

 

[Rock Crawler]

What a mess.

Yeah, it’s really sad that they don’t have their crap together. I always thought they were the leaders in suspension for lowered vehicles. Guess not anymore.

 

[Clv22p]

I still haven't actually got around to installing my Belltech parts. I have their spindles (factory 20 wheel truck with 22 wheels now), but I am doing the maxtrac/bilstein/spohn rear set up

 

[Rock Crawler]

I still haven't actually got around to installing my Belltech parts. I have their spindles (factory 20 wheel truck with 22 wheels now), but I am doing the maxtrac/bilstein/spohn rear set up

Oh, well I stand corrected.

 

[Svt40]

Installed the upper bolts for the sway bar end links. We decided to drill out the anchor nut to 1/2 inch and installed the upper mount with a 12mm bolt and nut with some copper sleeve spacers to fill the bushing. We could not get the sway bar perfectly level with the ground as there was not enough adjustment on the BT links.

Next, we ran the temporary airlines and filled the Durango bags with 5psi of air. Drove around the parking lot to settle the suspension and check for rubbing. Nothing rubbed. Put the wheel well covers back in and aligned it.

The alignment was out to lunch obviously. The tech ran it twice to get it perfect. The only thing out was the thrust angle which was due to the trackbar being off slightly.

It drives like factory with no odd noises. It does bottom out on speedbumps which is to be expected. After the alignment the passenger side rubs at full left lock.
Here are the much awaited pictures. Trying to get the alignment pic up but Adobe wants money to convert the file.

 

[Rock Crawler]

Looks great.

 

[Svt40]

Trackbar came in today. The thrust angle was 12º. Installed the trackbar and re-did the alignment. Thrust angle set to 0º which threw all the other adjustments out of wack. So we re-did the whole alignment to bring it all back in. It's even closer to perfect spec now than before.

All I have left to do is heat up the passenger side wheel well liner to bend it back a small amount to stop it from rubbing in hard left turns.

 

[Rock Crawler]

I assume it is rubbing because of the wheel width?

 

[Svt40]

I assume it is rubbing because of the wheel width?

I think it's just the liner is flopping around a touch more on the passenger side. The piece it's rubbing on is not attached at the bottom, so it has a lot of movement. So, my plan is to heat gun it up and bend it out of the way.

 

[Svt40]

Took a heat gun to the liner. It got nice and soft and I was able to bend it further in so it would no longer rub then splashed some cold water on it to lock the bend in. Worked great!
Did a few donuts in the parking lot with no more rubbing.

 

[cskindt]

Took a heat gun to the liner. It got nice and soft and I was able to bend it further in so it would no longer rub then splashed some cold water on it to lock the bend in. Worked great!
Did a few donuts in the parking lot with no more rubbing.

No pics or video of the ?

 

[Svt40]

No pics or video of the ?

LOL when I say donut as a tire buying person, I mean I went in tight circles slowly.

 

[cskindt]

LOL when I say donut as a tire buying person, I mean I went in tight circles slowly.

Darn, I was hoping for something more dramatic. You know, with smoke and circular patches of rubber on the ground?

 

[Rock Crawler]

LOL when I say donut as a tire buying person, I mean I went in tight circles slowly.

Glad you cleared that up. I was going to stop by and check out your pavement art next time I drove by.

 

[Svt40]

I have one more thing to work out with Belltech. Hopefully they will do what they said they would.

 

[Rock Crawler]

I have one more thing to work out with Belltech. Hopefully they will do what they said they would.

Keep us updated. Like to know how it all worked out after putting some miles on it.

 

[Svt40]

Keep us updated. Like to know how it all worked out after putting some miles on it.

I took it down Old Mill Road on Saturday for mandatory fun and it had no issues at all.

 

[Rock Crawler]

Cool. I’ll have to find that. Sounds fun.

 

[Svt40]

Cool. I’ll have to find that. Sounds fun.

It's off 1570 between hwy 34 and L3. The road is one of the worst in town.