1985 D150 "Mr. Curtis" race truck with a 2015 6.4
I'll revisit using the stock Ram lower control arms, with the ends cut off to make room for custom made ball-joint-"pieces".
In a first attempt to get the Ram spindle in there, i cut the cast-iron ball joint adapters from 1500 lower control arms and bolted them to Van LCAs.
There's all kinds of problems width the width of the VAN-lca and the spindle.
But there should not be any problem with the D150 control arms, because these are narrower than the VAN-lcas.
I am thinking about having these cast-iron pieces made from real steel with a little modification of the bolt spacing, so they fit the bolt pattern of the strut rods.
The frame side of the strut rods will be retained with ball-bearing-ends made for hydraulic cylinders.
I recently noticed i don't have the RC (regular cab) Ram SRT-10 spindle, but the QC (quad cab) spindle.
There is a difference between the two, the RC spindle is cast differently and incorporates a 1" drop, while the QC spindle retains stock (i compared it to stock 1500 spindles) height.
I'll revisit using the stock Ram lower control arms, with the ends cut off to make room for custom made ball-joint-"pieces".
In a first attempt to get the Ram spindle in there, i cut the cast-iron ball joint adapters from 1500 lower control arms and bolted them to Van LCAs.
There's all kinds of problems width the width of the VAN-lca and the spindle.
But there should not be any problem with the D150 control arms, because these are narrower than the VAN-lcas.
I am thinking about having these cast-iron pieces made from real steel with a little modification of the bolt spacing, so they fit the bolt pattern of the strut rods.
The frame side of the strut rods will be retained with ball-bearing-ends made for hydraulic cylinders.
I recently noticed i don't have the RC (regular cab) Ram SRT-10 spindle, but the QC (quad cab) spindle.
There is a difference between the two, the RC spindle is cast differently and incorporates a 1" drop, while the QC spindle retains stock (i compared it to stock 1500 spindles) height.
