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You never did go into details of the running gear you plan to use? Ratio and spline count and such.

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9" ford rear end/short bed/blue
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Will this help?


http://www.racingjunk.com/post/782206/S ... -CNTR.html

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i got a 9 inch allready out of a bronco. have not counted the splines yet, its still together. full spool with 4.86 grs. should be a big step from the luv 4.10's.


and i bought the wife the camera i was talking about last night. will get some better pics this weekend and hopefully get the bed off this weekend to. i know its x-mas but im ready to get it done!!! and i still need to go hunting this weekend some time to lol

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little update finally. x-mas was great, my daughter enjoyed it, and thats what counts.

anyways... finally got a few shots of how the ride height is goin to be, (so far lol) and got the bed off. im hoping to level it out front to back. i got my front tires in today at work. metric volkswagon tires. dont laugh there only 25 bones a piece brand new and just a tad bigger than the $100 a pop moroso's. still working on gettin my front wheels, guy in colorado im buyin from has been goin through weather probs and who knows what else but i should be gettin them soon. here is a few pics to look over.

i was also wondering, you guys with the narrowed luvs, how high is your frame rail at the back of the cab?
im setting at 7 1/2 inches right now at the bottom of the frame rail.
i screwed the tortion bars to lower the front about 4 inches.











while i was takin pics thought i would show this to everyone. my daughters chopper trike i made last year.
she loves it lol

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here is a short vid clip i took messin with the camera.

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Looking good so far. I can measure my frame but I have the coilovers.

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been a while since i posted anything up on my progress, reason is not much has happened lol. a few setbacks but its fixin to get back underway.

got all the wheels mounted and ready.







and the cat had some fun to

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forgot to add i also found a luv sitting behind a house. the guy wants $300 for the whole truck, its a long bed. he also has a shortbed that i am goin to buy the bed only for $75. i plan on using the wheel tubs to try and keep a stock look but bigger tubs. i havent looked at either up close yet, gonna try and get over there tomorrow.

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I like this thread its weird I just took measurements of the drag luv I am selling and the frame is narrowed about 5-6" and has 15" wide slicks and the hub to hub on the 9" is 49" or 48" I think they are plenty big tires. but what would I know I dont drag race haha. cool stuff. Hold on I ll draw the frame out on mspaint.

James

hope that worked I spent a lot of time

thats what im planning on doing with mine.

you have a pic of the truck your selling?

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i too installed a 9" but am not quite done with yet. i narrowed mine to 33" end to end of the axle tubes.

Here is a couple of mine

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time to update finally


got the wheel tubs off the other luv truck, messin with them at work. the biggest progress came today, finally chopped the frame off and welded it back on. i have never done this before and man it was a fkn blast i gotta say. ended up cutting a total of 11 1/2 inches out of the middle.

still gotta put in some gussets everywhere, but the basic part is done.

here is some pics.

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i fixed it

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woo hoo it is fun getting out the torch I know what you mean. did you uh use the x-member from another luv you know that bent pipe you have where you narrowed it kind of resembles it well it is 330 am right now maybe not haha. Keep it up man can't wait to see more

James

the bent part of the x member came from another truck, 69 chevy. we shaved the ladder bar mounts off and drove each end into 8 inch 2x3 square tubing. tacked it, centered it, measured it, retacked, recentered, remeasured and so on lol untill we got it where we wanted it. then filled in above the drop bar where it went into the square tubing.

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This is how i gusseted my narrowed frame (14 1/5")

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