I have a friend that i'm helping with a 87' D100/150 truck he want's to make a street scraper out of it...i know that they have kits for the chevy C-10 wondering if anybody on the forum has done it with the dodge D series trucks. They don't seem to make scraper kits for the D series

We are in the process of taking it down to the frame. He's wanting 22 to 24" rims. He wants to have a low, level, high air ride settings.

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1984' Dodge D150 Utiline Bed
Slant 6 225, Holley 1920 Carb
A833 4 Speed O/D Transmission

By street scraper you mean like a low rider truck right?

I am very very familiar with S10s and lowering them both static or with air ride. (Never actually had one but my father had a C10 as did my uncle and I always wanted and studied "mini trucks")

I believe these trucks have torsion bar front ends correct?

If so you could probably lower it quite an impressive amount just by cranking that LCA bolt to the left!
(I lowered my Valiant this way)

Only side effects may be bottoming out on the bump stops but if you've ever driven in a lowered static truck you know this is the very least of your worries

That being said you did mention bags. Bags are possible to set up on both torsion bars and coil spring applications. Torsion bars may just require some fabrication of custom mounts, and you would most probably replace the front shocks with just the air bag its self (when aired up you'd never be able to tell the difference)

As for the rear end I'm sure someone sells a 4 link for the D series trucks. If not "Air over leaf" kits are very cheap, reliable, and dumb easy to put in.

Hope this helps!

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"Four doors for more....screaming passangers..(;"

"There's no replacement for displacement, but my \6 is still cooler than your V8"

A friend & I lowered a D series truck for a guy that I used to work with.

I can not recall what the front suspension is/was. Memory says coil springs and that we cut them, but I could be really, really wrong there.

The rear was fairly simple. We drilled out the rivets holding the front spring hanger to the frame and flipped the hanger upside down, then drilled the frame for bolts. We used G8's and all metal type prevailing torque lock nuts (aka "Stover Nuts") with hardened washers under both the bolt heads and the nuts to fasten the hangers back on the frame. The bolts were torqued to the max for a G8 bolt of that size (I *think* they were 1/2") and then I lightly peened the ends of the bolts so that the nuts couldn't back off.

In the process of flipping the hanger the front end of the spring can be moved up a significant distance. With the shackle being a tension type design we cut them in half and lengthened them by the same distance that we moved the front hangers up.

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Thom

Cross-threaded is tighter than Lock-tite

As ntsqd said if it is coil springs in the front you can cut them, but note that this will also lower your spring rate making the truck bouncier feeling, im sure there are aftermarket springs, but somthing tells me that theae trucks are probably torsion bars.

If thats the case lowering the front is much easier as i said in my first post,

Flipping the hangars is an okay approach, but i do not think it will lower it much more than an inch or two, blocks are much easier to install and cheaper.

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19 Years young with a passion for all things old.

"Four doors for more....screaming passangers..(;"

"There's no replacement for displacement, but my \6 is still cooler than your V8"

Cutting the coils increases the spring rate. Coil springs are in torsion, and cutting them makes them shorter.

Can't recall exactly, but around 2" was what the hanger flip was worth. As I recall these trucks are SOA, so to use blocks you'd first need to make it SUA or just adding blocks will raise the ride height. Going SUA should be worth about 3"-4" worth of drop by itself.

FWIW blocks are universally scorned in off road circles. Using them results in easy spring wrap, with all of those related problems.

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Thom

Cross-threaded is tighter than Lock-tite

I wouls suspect you could modify a C-10 air kit for a Dodge. Call the manufaturer, they may be able to supply a kit.

I think Fat Man has 2" drop spindles.

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