So I got a new pickup, its a 1990 standard cab. Had a pretty good shake in the front end. Looked like it needed some new ball joints and tie-rods. So I decided since I have the time and most of the stuff I decided I would just do a SAS instead of wasting my money and time fixing up the IFS.


Pic the day I brought it home.


Started unbolting some stuff


After about 4hours of work with a sawzall, stupid torch was out of gas.

 

lookin good...i found that a grinder with a cutoff wheel worked best..i ran out of gas lol but the cuts were a WHOLE lot cleaner and was pretty easy...went the same route you did..came time to replace my NEW wheel bearings AGAIN and said screw it and went to choppin!

 

everytime i see a new thread from you it seems like have a major project going on. lol hows your diesel swap going?! but any way the truck is super clean

 

I actually decided to scrap the diesel project, to many customizations,I'm keeping this one 100% DD . Sold off alot of the pieces, alot of the money went into the new truck and some of the pieces are going into the SAS.

 

So I finished up grinding all the stuff off the frame. Ended up making a spring hangar since I'm cheap. Still waiting on the hysteer and frame tubes in the mail.

 

keep up the good work. that truck looks super nice. it's too bad to see the diesel truck go, but i know this one will be awesome when finished.

 

Yeah I went back and forth a bunch of times about keeping the diesel truck, just love my third gen standard cabs, had one as my first truck.

 

Well since Marlin Crawler decided to screw up yet another one of my orders, I am still waiting on my frame tubes so I can finish up the SAS.

 

lookin good, im eager to see how it turns out

 

dam dude your always building bad ass stuff, what did u do with the yellow first gen you had? you still building that. what are you doing with the old ifs stuff, i got a friend looking to do an ifs lift? looks like you didn't cut the lift up, only the stock mounts right? I'm in the Portland area to.

 

Thanks, I hope to have it finished up within a couple days.

I had to many projects piling up so I cut my losses and sold the yellow first gen. Yeah I'm looking to sell the lift kit, just got done taking it all apart today. I was real careful not to damage any of the lift stuff, so its all in good shape.

 

ya man, what tire size are you goin to be runnin?

 

Not sure yet, but I'm thinking since I'm cheap I'll just run the 32" that are on there for ahwile.

Finally got the frame tubes late today.

 

Put the truck back down on its wheels.


what do you guys think of the shackle angle?

 

Shackle angle looks about right. I've found that if it sits too far back, it will rub on the frame where it gets narrower.
She gonna be tall huh?

 

Oh i might also suggest that you add some gussets to the hanger. Maybe i'm just a little paranoid but here's how i did mine

 

Yeah, I'm somewhat disappointed with how tall it turned out. I guess I could french the front hangar and cut the shackles down to drop a few inches. Yeah thats a good idea for gussets I'll have to steal it.

 

Here it is finished. Need to fix the crappy blocks in back and add a leafs though still. Maybe just 63s.

 

Looks fantastic its not too high its just right

 

Thanks, yeah I think it settled a bit after a couple days.