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Ten-4 I got it. Thanks for all the help guys.

Ok I will go for that. Would you set them up after you get weight on the spring? Or is ok to set them up how it's sitting.? Thanks for the help also. I really appreciate it.

Old iron, do you have any advice on the radius rods? The proper way to set them up, or does it matter. Do they have to be set up at a certain angle? I'm not sure and need all the advice I can get. Thanks

Back at it last night. I was able to get the perch mount all finished up and welded on the frame, and also the front axle on. Anyone have any advise or tricks when it comes to radius rods? there on the front end, but i need to make the brackets for the frame, but I held off to see if anyone had...

Well I got my spring on the other day. I ended up figuring out my old perch's had more of a angle in then my new ones. So I ended up making some new shackles and that solved the problem. I actually took apart my old ones, pressed the studs out and made new pieces re pressed the studs in, and...

Nothing has actually changed. My shackles are the same measurement as the ones I took off. The perches haven't changed and all of this is from speedway. I actually called with all the measurements and the guy had me double measure things and he set up. But no measurements have changed. It's...

Ok I got you on that. My problem is I got one of the shackles in on one side but the other side is off I can't get the shackle in. Do I need to compress the spring? The one I took off was a 31" eye to eye spring, the one I'm putting on is a 31" spring.

Alright I am stuck on something. Yesterday my new front spring came in and today I went to put it on and made one side but the other side not close. The old spring was a 31" and the new one is a 31". I know the old doesn't have much of a arch because of weight over the years. Not sure if this...

Ha Ha will do. I stayed up late last night drawing up a template for the front perch and ended up going in the garage to lay them out and cut them.

Good looking truck. I also like the front end.

Flipped the frame over today and finished a-lot of the welding on the bottom.

Here is some more pictures of the frame. was pretty proud when i got to this part of putting it all together.

Well I scored a ford 9" today for free. well not a 100% free i traded the guy 2 torch gauges and a section of torch rubber for this and a 700r4 tranny with very low millage, just had to help him dig it out of one his barns.

Well it took me a few hrs to go through this. You did a amazing job and gives me much inspiration. Very nice to go through these builds and see how much skill guys have, and a way for us younger guys to learn. Awesome job.

For my first frame build I have blue prints because I was unsure were to start from scratch. I am not following the blueprints a 100% but It gave me somewhere to start. So its not a frame I thought up but modifying it to fit what I am building. Hopefully after this build I will be more well...

Got both sides all cut up, now the fun part fitting it and getting it all welded up.

marking the front pieces to go from 4" to 3 1/4 and then cutting them.

got it figured out thanks to you guys. give me a little bit and i will be posting a bunch more

This is driving me nuts. How did you do that?