Diesel Swapped Squarebody 10 Inch Lift Fabrication - Cummins Chevy K20 Ep. 1

foreign [Music] what's going on guys welcome back to the channel as you see we are surrounded by huge Chevy pickup trucks as you guys remember we did a full nine inch off-road design coilover conversion lift on this truck there was a whole lot of questions and a whole lot of comments on the step-by-step process on doing the installation of it we didn't really take too much time to go over all that stuff because we were concentrating on a whole bunch of details but here we are with a 1989 Chevy Crew Cab big old boy and all we're doing is a nine inch lift on it so we're going to take a little bit more time and kind of go over all the steps with you guys this thing's already huge man it's got this huge front bumper on it and it's also swapped with a 12 valve Cummins turbo diesel man so this thing is already really cool already really massive but what's going to make it even more massive and cool is another nine inch coilover conversion lift so Dave we got Dave out here our lead fabricator Dave what's going to be the first step on this all right we gotta get this inside and onto our lift and it's a massive vehicle so we gotta make sure everything fits in the shop once it's up in the air we got a whole table full of nuts and bolts and brackets and we got to make sure everything's there all right well it's hot outside so let's get this thing in there and let's get to work [Music] foreign [Music] I wrote down a couple items that I did not find front leg arm Hardware is missing the heims and the welding spacers are missing and this is a really important one the two main brackets that mount the coilover shock and spring assemblies to the front axle but everything else is here and accounted for you don't want to get things stuck on the lift stuck on jack stands so it's really important to go over all the parts make sure that everything arrived as it should I sort of divide the table into three different sections this is rear Parts this is steering components and this is from suspension parts while we were organizing our parts we realized that there were a few things missing for our front suspension so starting over here at the rear we have our Raw Bar material these are going to be our four links in the rear these are our bump stops to prevent the suspension from compressing past a certain point to protect our shocks these two are the bra brackets that get welded to the frame side and the ends of our four link bars get Johnny joints and they're gonna be bolted into these brackets these two brackets here are a frame Mount shock bracket uh top of our rear shock coilovers get bolted into these these are two brackets or two of our four link arms to connect from the frame into the axle tube these two brackets are for the other two tubes and our four link system and they actually get welded to the top of this one this is actually upside down it'll get flipped these curved pieces here they meet with the axle tube we talked about Johnny joints this is what giant joint looks like that's what's going to slip into these brackets here these two brackets on the axle side are going to be a flex joints so it's kind of a raw piece of tube that has a threaded on the inside and then you have to build them yourself and it's a ball and socket style that assembly that sits inside the flex joint housing and allows some rotational movement and they get just like ball joint wood so we got all the rear components four links our brackets our Hardware so we could start tearing into this rear end foreign so we got both these fuel tanks all drained to fuel so we're gonna put a drain pan under disconnect this line hopefully there's not too much left in the tank and then we'll be able to start dropping these tanks [Music] we got this Behemoth up on the lift but we're not exactly level yet so I'm gonna grab a level we're gonna try and get this truck exactly level because it's going to make it so much easier when we're trying to build and get all of our Dimensions correct now that we're all level I think that since we are doing uh bedlift and a cab lift it would be advantageous for us to just take the bed fully off since it has to be raised anyway so we got a bunch of bolts that I'm gonna take off now some stuff now to the bed I'm gonna pull this fuel pump off and then lift the bed off with the lift put it on the cart we're just gonna get a few measurements that we need before we pull our axle specifically our pinion angle that way we can make sure we're putting it back at the same angle at which it came off and looks like we're right between 12 and 13 degrees right here [Music] we got our bed off with out the way the bed and the toolbox and everything this thing is taking a nose dive forward we're gonna get the rear off first lower onto these jack stands by the frame and then what we can do is lift our front end up take our wheels off and then we've got some jack stands there and then we can actually re-level our frame out and then be able to build off at that point all right we got our rear end out and our V Springs off our frame is all clean now we got to clean up this rear axle to accept all of our new bracketry I got the cross brace here well is removing all the brake lines and once we get this clear put this bracket on make sure it's going to work and then also start test fitting a couple of our other brackets foreign step is getting all of our bracketry put on so we can make our four link bars that's going with the axle up to the frame what we want to do since two of our four link brackets are welded on the top of our brace we need to get the brace fixed onto the axle even if it's just tacked in for now so that way when we put the axle under we know the actual position so the position of the brace is determined on this side so what we're going to do is we'll get the brace final welded to itself we'll get the pinion part of it bolted on and then we'll connect the two and then that'll place this and we'll be able to tack it onto the axle [Music] so we got our main brace all welded up so we're going to move on to our opinion cover so this part covers where the drive shaft connects onto the axle and then this part bolts into the front face of the axle housing but this comes unwelded foreign [Music] we got the pinion cover and bracket bolted into the front base of our pinion and this brace here gets bolted in like this and then that will dictate exactly where this one wants to sit so I'm gonna go ahead and bolt on this piece here and then we'll rotate this and get it lined up to this whole assembly we got this piece bolted on to our front we're going to drill some holes up here and we'll be able to bolt these two pieces together using some happen Hardware this is one of our four link brackets it's going to get welded on top just put it up there for reference I have the pinion set and so from the side it's close to being parallel with the ground that's really the starting point you want So before we actually tack this in place I made some marks underneath through the holes that exist we're going to take the brace off flip it drill through those holes and then put it back in make sure our Hardware slips through before giving text on the actual axle that way we know that everything is aligned before we actually do any welding okay so we got our three holes now drilled in the top we're gonna test it out if they're all of our Hardware mates up to this bottom bracket with this pinion cover bolted in and this bracket bolted in this is the exact position that the rack needs to be in we could finally do a couple attacks on either side I'm going to start working on this our frame size we got these big brackets there's one right here and they mount up directly on the side of this Frame what we're going to do is just actually box in this entire section right here that the bracket's gonna go on to boxing will give strength to the actual frame and then once the brackets on there's going to be a bunch more weldable surfaces to make that attachment and tie it into the frame [Music] okay so we got both our boxing plates installed passenger driver driver passenger and now we got do you attack in our four link brackets but before we do that I want to show you guys the way that this bracket is gonna sit is that box and play is going to be on this side and this is going to be the bottom of the frame rail you could have the ability to weld here here and then on this side and this side and the top side with our box end plate [Music] okay so we got a few tacks on either side it's good enough for a mock-up stage of this process next we've got to get this axle underneath the frame and then set level just like the frame is and then also jack stand to adjust our opinion height other considerations we want to be centered left to right and then also I made these marks before taking off the original position of the axle with the leaf springs and that gives us a center line of where we want to be please now that we're in position we can check out our ride height eight and a half is the stock distance between the bottom of the frame and the top of the axle too so now we're up here at 19 inches distance so 8 19 do some math hello 19. no 19 minus eighteen minus eleven eleven so we are 11 inches taller than stock right now we got everything positioned perfectly our frame itself is level in both directions and now our axle is level opinion angle set and it's uh positioned front to back left to right right exactly where we want it our next step now is we can start attacking our brackets onto our axle tube in position and then once those are tacked we can start making our four link bars [Music] we have brackets for our outer link arms tacked on to the axle side and we have our bracket tacked on to our frame side so the first step that we're going to do is we're going to build this arm turn it down [Music] we got this all tacked in our Flex joint and we're gonna bring it over to our truck over here and it will go inside there's axle in and then once I have it in this side we could hold it up to here we're going to install a giant joint on here with the welding end and then we'll be able to match it up and be able to mark for our cut on our other side of our pipe [Music] so we got our first link installed Hardware running through holding our Flex joint in runs up reamed out our insert and then the Johnny Joint threads into the insert and then the hardware holds it to the frame side bracket got adjustment if we need to make it shorter or if we need to go out next step pretty much we just have to repeat this process exactly the same for the other side and then we'll move on to the middle one [Music] okay we are under the truck and we are setting in our inner lengths here so we cope and Tack the flex joint onto the end and then this is the bracket that's going to get welded to the top of our pinion brace then we can come to this side where I put a giant joint in the frame side bracket and I put a mark as you can see right there that lines up with the bottom of the Johnny Joint welding bung so we're going to make our cut here once we get this in position we'll know exactly where this bracket is going to sit and we can tack it onto the top of the pinion brace so we got our links installed here here and here we have a nice even Gap and with that angle being like that our Johnny Joint same thing we got equal gaps on each side since this is at ride height this is sort of our neutral position we want everything to have as much Gap as possible and then it can articulate as a suspension travels in either direction now that we have this in position I could do a bunch of heavy tacks and that will locate our inner axle side four link brackets okay so now that we got all of our four links installed on the rear we are going to start with our shock bracketry so we got this bracket that's going to go inside the frame and then here's one of our 14 inch long King shocks [Music] we have a bolt holding our shock assembly in and then at the bottom we have a nice shiny new bracket that we caught on the plasma table and as you can see as we bring it up to our axle tube they fit nice and snug around them and we can position them left to right a little bit leave enough room between our e-brake and our lower shock stand here what we could do now is just hold it in place and then put a couple tacks on both of these brackets once these brackets are tacked in we'll have to tack in this bracket too [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so we got the entire rear suspension here all tacked in we got this bracket for our frame side of our links we got our outer link running to our bracket that we tacked on to our axle on the outer side then moving back we got our shock bracket tacked on and our frame side shock shock bracket tacked on got some bolts through there moving on to the inner this is our inner Flex joint and sits into our bracket that's tacked down to our pinion brace and then running up and over the other end the Johnny Joint goes into our frame side bracket next what's going to happen is that we're going to cycle the suspension we're gonna put one side up one side down both sides up both sides down and make sure that everything that we have here all these parts don't run into anything on the frame and just double check everything while it's just an attack position before everything gets final welded that way if we have an issue we can easily fix it now because once you find the weld something it's a major pain to get it off again [Music] foreign [Music] position as you can see we have plenty of space between the arms and the frame e-brake bracket does not get in the way at all and all of our joints have stayed centered they're having started to articulate yet my YG is from this position put a jack stand under one side and then I could bring the Jack down now bring down just one side at a time we don't need this anymore here and we'll pull it out our other side jack stand our Flex joints are starting to articulate back and forth a little bit but there's still plenty of Gap everywhere so that's what we want to see now we got our shock travel fully out extended on one side you still got a good amount of clearance with our shock tabs which is awesome and we'll double check this side pretty good now on this side if you notice we're getting kind of close to our caliper here so what I might want to do to make sure the spring is not going to rub right here in this position we might need to undo these tacks and slightly move this bracket over this is exactly why we do all these tests so it's not going to be very often where you have one wheel fully compressed the other wheel fully uncompressed but we want to make sure that this is going to work in all scenarios [Music] okay so now that we're all tested and cycled let me make sure that we have enough room between our calipers on both sides we are ready to pull this thing apart so we can take all these tacks and make them final welds [Music] all right as you can see we got the whole rear end onto the weld table there's a lot of spots to be final welded before we do any of that there are seals made out of rubber and plastic that are inside the tube also some of these caliper components have rubber seals as well so what we want to do is just pretty much strip the rear end off we're going to be taking off the Hub the rotor the caliper and then we'll take out the rear gear set so once all that stuff is stripped out then we don't have to worry about all the heat from all this welding ruining our seals thank you [Music] okay we got all the final welding done on our axle side as you can see we got lots of various Wells going on all these components now that that's all done we can start reassembling everything else so the gear set could go on the back get a new seal for the cover we could put our rotors and bearings back on and then our caliper assemblies as well before we put everything else back together I had forgotten about one thing I wanted to weld on here and that's boxing plates for our shock mounts foreign [Music] plates welded on looking good and now that that's done we're gonna reseal this rear hanging cover [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right so I'm gonna jump in and help Dave with some of his welding on the big K20 or whatever the heck that is Project I'm going to weld up these length arms so first step is I'm going to get all the hardware out of them and wrap this stuff up and throw some nice city beads on it [Music] foreign [Music] er a picture of the four link bars and asked them what color he wanted them painted and he said he liked the way they look just like this so I'm gonna go ahead and do this to the other two and then we'll clear coat them throw them back on the truck [Music] got our four links installed over here so that means the next step is getting our shocks in so before we were in the mock-up stage we left the springs off so that we could compress and extend the shock but now that we're putting the final assembly and we want it to hold the weight of the truck we're going to put our Springs onto our shocks so here we got a couple different Springs front and rear on our rear shock here we're going to be using one 350 and one 600 and you can see that they're different heights so the lighter spring is going to go on the top which will be the longer one and the shorter spring is going to go on the bottom each one rests on either side of this collar Mount they also have adjustability here and then there's also the top collar which gives compression to our top shock here [Music] all right so now that we got our wheels and our shocks we're back on the ground and this thing is fully done in the rear we have our pinion angle set everything is centered left to right back to front the only thing that's not done is our bump stops in doing the inventory they're missing we contacted the company they're on back order so we gotta wait but that's not going to stop us from working on this truck we're going to move ahead to the front and do all of our front Link Bar and coil over suspension install and then by the time that's done our bump stops will arrive and we'll we'll do them on all four corners of the truck so so that's it for this episode don't forget to like subscribe comment so you don't miss out on seeing the full build on this truck foreign

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Length: 25min 46sec (1546 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 23 2023