So there's a nice story about this truck but long of the short. Its a deal I couldn't pass up. Flew to Orlando, Fl and drove it 1900 Miles back to Minnesota. It was originally bagged by Drop Zone of Kissimmee, Fl and to say the least they did a horrible job on it. It features a nice mono leaf rear setup with slam Re 7's behind and under the rear axle. It has one shock!! Yes you read it right one shock. Passenger rear and its blown from rubbing the mount. No front shocks, no sway bar and Slam Re 6's for the front held in with S-10 cups. A 5 gallon tank that isn't bolted down in the bed and a DC 5000 compressor. My plans are to redo the rear. Aluminum fuel cell with stock pump, Parallel 4-link with panhard, sleeves in front of the axle, Bilstein shocks front and rear, get the factory sway bar back in this thing, over body drop the bed so there is no notch cover, mount tank and new compressors under bed, Z front frame section and most importantly get this thing laying frame. Follow along.....





individual switches for the corners with a nice white dot on one side to let you know which way is up.

Tank isn't bolted down. The lines hold it in place



I can't believe it made it 1900 miles back like this. If it wasn't mono leafed it probably would have sheared this a long time ago.

Notice the one shock. How a shop charges money and gives the keys back to the customer with one shock is beyond me.

Thats a 7/16" bolt holding a shock in place that has a 1/2" through hole. It pushed the insert out and caused the shock to rub on the side of the mount

Looks nice

Even though it had one shock it was blown and not doing much good.

TIG

cut the old notches out and welded in the new ones. the old notches were in the wrong spot not to mention different spots from each other. The mono leaf is also off and the axle is a half inch forward on the passenger side vs. the driver side. We'll have it straightened out soon enough.

bed is over body dropped 5 inches.

We removed the old bulkhead to scratch build a new one.

Parallel 4-link built from 1" 3/16" DOM tubing with 3/4"-16 endlinks. All brackets and 4-link are TIG welded and built in house

Tig welded 4-link mounts

4-link and panhard bar welded in place

Just the start of something simple.

Rear bed filler panel.

Hard to tell from the pic but its converted from one piece to two piece driveshaft.

20 Gallon fuel cell to fit in stock location.

Rear tube work all finished up. It needs to be broken down, finished welded, Blasted and primed and painted.

Compressor mounts.

The front upper cups pulled out. These appear to be a set of lower S-10 Cups that have been hacked to pieces. As I'm redoing the front I keep finding all sorts of treasures like this.


Freshly blasted. Now its time for prime paint and Clear.

All primed, painted and cleared

Not a modification you see to often. We cut the hump out of the rail and straightend the rail out. Now the truck will lay full frame instead of the hump.

Cut the front clip off to Z the frame

modded the engine crossmember and motor mounts

TIG

Pie cut the top of the front clip.

This gives me a smoother transition from rail to rail.

Welded in 2" higher than stock you can see how much nicer the tops of the frame transition to each other. Now it needs top, bottom and side plates.

Fish plates all welded up.

Tight squeeze after the Z but the clear the steering shaft by a 1/4"

Swapping in some 2004 Mercury Mountaineer leather seats with full power options.