is c-notch necessary?

[danieljpeter]

Went out last night in the refrigerator I call a shop and mounted and plumbed the bags.








I drilled a hole in that big funky bumper that I'm rockin and welded an 1/8" steel fitting through it. One side is the compression fitting with the air line, the other side is the schraeder valve. I burned all the paint off the license plate side, so I touched it up with white. Now I have this bright white spot. I should have just left the paint burned off!







I love those metal/rubber wiring clamps for airline. They hold stuff good without wearing through it.





Ran airline inside frame rail where I could.









I still need shocks. I think I will just use the "other hole" closer to the axle next to the stock upper mount. This will correct some of the messed up shock angle you get from lowering the back end. I think I will just use the stock shock tabs on the axle. The shock won't be as straight up and down as I'd like, but it should work OK. So with the axle to the frame there is 10" from the center lower hole to the upper shock hole. With it aired all the way up and the crap arched out of the leaf springs it is 14.5 from center center hole. The only shocks I could find that meet this criteria are these:

http://catalog.monroe.com/monroe/pro...catalog=MONROE

They are monroe RV shocks. I think people use them on car trailers and stuff. They are 9.625 compressed and 14.75 extended. Pretty much perfect dimension wise. I think they are around $20 a piece, too. I don't want to mess with standard lowered chevy shocks, they are probably not the right length for me and more money than I want to pay. I'm pretty sure the rv shocks will ride good enough for my tastes.











If you look close, you can tell the bottom air brackets are just tacked in place. This was a suggestion from seth @ twisted minis. Then after I do my tranny swap if I end up needing to shim the pinion angle I can reweld the bottom bag brackets if necessary. Also, the truck isn't heavy enough without the bed to compress the bags all the way! Those slams take a lot of weight to compress. When I jump on the bumper I can get the axle to smack the frame, though. I think with the bed on it will be bottomed out. Then I'll just shoot some air to it to get a nice ride height.

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