92 Bagged 5.0...Tom's build

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Please ignore the rusted out cab mount, it will be replaced soon!

First time welding in years...

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My garage..


The notch coming along..

[_97_4X4_]

looks good! what welder are you using?

[Throttlehead250]

do you have your own damn lift!!??

i am so jealous

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The welder is a Miller Matic 250.

And yes I have a lift. Thats a pic of my pole barn at my house. I used to work as an auto tech for years before switching jobs.

[that1bmxguy]

damn you! i want my own lift!

[PickupMan92]

lifts are pretty cheap, around $1500 if you really do this stuff al l the time.

those pics look great, I can't wait to see more. Is the truck you are working on the same truck in your avatar?

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I paid $3200 for that lift new. It was the same one that I used daily at the dealership so I didn't want to skimp on a cheap or used one. It's uses are endless...

The red ranger is a 1992 standard cab shortbox. The avatar is my 1990 ex cab. I still have it but it's currently dissassembled.

[Mightygreenrang]

Looks great man, nice to see another law enforcement officer building a mini, lol.

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The watts link
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[Smorrison1]

The watts link
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have you cycled this out?

I would like to see pics of it layed out and lifted if you wouldnt mind, I was thinking about doing this on my toyota

[mario85]

Same Four link I used on my ranger. Nice pics. If you dont mind could you please show some close pics of where the wats link attatches.

-Mario

[Mightygreenrang]

I really like the design of the watts link.

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Here's the watts at ride height
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Here it is lifted
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And layed out
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This shows where it's welded to the axle and frame
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I'm not done yet in the rear. I plan on boxing the brame before and after the notch. Thats after I build the lift bars.

[83bagged]

Thats after I build the lift bars.

are you going to run a 6-link or something? you putting 2 more bars inside the frame to run your bags on?

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Yep. It will be a six link. There will be two bars running from the rear of the frame to the axle. The bags will be mounted back there. The bars will be on the outside of the frame rails.

[83bagged]

can you only do front and back on this setup? you gonna run a fuel cell or stock tank?

[Crazythingsido2]

looks sick

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I think it should hit sides pretty good because the link bars and lift bars/bags are on the outsides of the frame rails. Also, I'm using a super pivot where the lift bars attach to the axle.

I'm running a fuel cell as I'm running a 306. Plus it lays frame and the stock tank is too low.

[dbarconcepts]

Is that A Dallas Hotrod Parts watts link kit? Also if u don't mind me asking how much $ are u going to have in the rear suspension? I wanna do my truck the exact same way you are, but with the kp bolt on kit coming back out i just wanna know how much more the kit will cost than the set up you are doing.

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It is the Dallas Hotrod watts.
Four link $360
Watts link $170
Lift bars $210
Upper brackets $40
Total $780
Man, I really didn't ever think about how much was invested. It was just a hundred here, a hundred there..lol

The notch was $90 and the bags were around $170 I think?

[dbarconcepts]

so u did it for about 1/2 the kp kit price and its custom so i'm going this route too. One more thing did u have any problems with the offset differential and watts link placement?

[logicgear]

does Dallas Hotrods have a website?

[dbarconcepts]

http://www.dallashotrodparts.com/watts.html

thats a direct link the the watts link.

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so u did it for about 1/2 the kp kit price and its custom so i'm going this route too. One more thing did u have any problems with the offset differential and watts link placement?

If you look at the pics of the watts, you can see that I notched the passenger side mounts because they partially sat on the differential case. But it wasn't a big deal.

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Boxed the frame from the notch to the rear crossmember
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As this is my first custom build that I'm doing myself, I welcome all feedback.

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Here is the rear crossmember for the lift bars. The tabs are four inches long. I cut and sunk the inner tab and welded it on the inside also. The outer was just welded to the end of the square tube.
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