video came out great! love the intro song always a fav. been working about a week on getting my lowrider back on the road after 5 plus years! just wait guys more custom mods to come on the dodge later... stay tuned😉
HMMM, just realized the part about spray painting the tires was edited out LOL you should have seen the look on the camera guys face!... priceless!!! "you're really going to spray paint my new tires"? YEP... the spraypaint trick was "spot on" for the toe in adjustment BTW
You guys notice any bumpsteer from the new tirerod angle or vibes from the pinion angle change? The van steering arms load the tierod from the bottom which would correct the angle but the truck strut/radius rods get in the way (they fit behind the spindle on the van). A lot can be done fairly cheap in stages/episodes with 318 head work, 70s 360 4v intake with a used carter/edelbrock, jegs long tubes, and a near 268h spec cam. Probably want to upgrade to at least the 9-1/4 axle too with 3.55 or numerically higher ratio.
Did you have to drill out the lower control arm mount and change to a 1/2 bolt or did you use a sleeve in the control arm and stick with the truck's 3/8 bolt?
So how exactly did you get the shackles off of the truck? The top bolts go in from the inside and no apparent way to get them out. Also mine seem to be frozen in the bushing sleeve.
I read that your truck needed to be no older than 1984 D150 to use the van control arms? I have an 85. do you have the part numbers for the items you used?
The dodge van lower control arms are suppose to be 1973 to 1991 I just ordered the 1981 dodge van lower control arms for my 1981 dodge d150. worked great.
@@Isteveym the new van LCA came with new ball joints already installed in them, and we used the D150 upper ball joints new. only minor mods we had to do were grind some of the edge off the frame end of the lower arms, when you remove one of your truck arms just compare it to the van arm and you'll see where it needs trimmed! and we had to drill the holes for the strut rod where it bolts to the van arm near the ball joint. easy couple of mods to do!!!