Projects Altitude adjustment for the Sweptline Pick-up

Dropped 5" in the front and about 3" in the rear. Added the chrome wheels, coker w/w's, chrome rear bumper,new rubber floor mat, new master cylinder, cleaned up the engine a bit, a quick tune-up and replaced all the little things it was missing ( lense's, knobs, wipers etc.)
Now it's a blast to run around in. Thanks to Roadburner1 for the help getting it lowered and to Big Dad for getting me in contact with all the right people to get parts from and the cool decal in the rear window. Gary

 

Nice!!!

 

Looks good, Gary... The wheels, tires, spit-shine, and altitude adjustment made a big difference!!



Malcolm

 

Looks good Gary

 

Looks good

 

looks awsome!

 

Looks good, Love those dash shifters... Way cool, very clean truck...

 

Makes me miss mine! Nice looking truck for sure

 

Looked good at garage night last night.I'd expect no less from you.

 

Still an ugly truck

 

Just goes to prove the old addage (You can make a silk purse out a sows ear.)

 

Nice truck !!! Nice to see that Loadflite selector in there !

 

cool and different. hows the ride?

 

I like the way the top and hood lay down.Did you have them pancaked or is that from the factory?

 

Thanks for driving that over to my place last night. I love the make over. That truck rocks!!

It just shows me that I need to get an all weather hot rod.

Jeff

 

that is a realy nice ride my friend...enjoy...

 

So ugly they're awesome! Nice truck! I know it's been covered here before, but how about some details on the drop.

A Dodge sweptline is on my list of must haves. One of these days..........E

 

Obviously this turds full of nuts !!!

 

Looks great!

 

Looks great !!

Did I miss the post on how you dropped it ?

How does it ride and drive like that ..?

 

That is the coolest truck Ive ever seen in my entire life.

 

Kudo's on building something a little different, Especially since they are the best looking trucks ever built...Truck is awesome. I'm sure big dads truck is a little inspiration. Here's mine that one day might drive

 

Sweet truck!! Gotta love the new attitude of the new altitude!!

 

lookin great gary!!! congrats!

 

Thats it, Ive got to have one now!

 

This looks to be really cool. Keep us up-dated on this one. I've always liked this body-style but yes..... Big Dads truck was a huge inspiation and probably the coolest sweptline I've ever seen. Gary

 

Love it.

 

Heres a little on how it was lowered. In the back the rear shackle was lengthen'd and a few leaves removed. In the front the axle was moved from below the springs to setting on top and a new plate was made to hold it all in place along with new U-bolts. This, we found out created a few geometry problems and so the pitman arm had to be shortened to straighten it all out. It still rides good but obviously lost some travel and it bottoms out a little quicker ( energy suspension bump stops helped soften that up) Before the manuel steering was pretty hard but with the shorter pitman arm it steers much easier, the downfall is now the sweep in the arc of the pitman arm is shorter so it takes more revolutions of the steering wheel to turn the tires. It isn't a big deal once you get used to it. It does still have just a little bump steer, but I just got a steering dampner from So-Cal that I'm thinking will clean all of that up. Gary

 

Looks great man...

 

Nice job, man!


Hey, how's your '40 coming along?