Topic: any who has

[89sastoyo]

does anyone who has flatbellied there truck drive it daily? or on the street at all? If so do you have any problems, also did you raise your motor at all or just bring hte cases up?

[87pickup]

I know on mine to get the belly any closer to flat would take either cutting my floorbaords or adding a body lift. I lowered my motor when i did a engine swap. What a mistake that was, i plan on re-doing my tube work this summer and will add a 1" body lift as well as raising the motor to get a completely flat belly.

[89sastoyo [OP]]

yeah i think what im going to end up doign is a front range offroad style cross member and mount it a little different but with the same bushing idea so its not a rigid mount

[87pickup]

I have a rotated front range crossmember with my cases pushed up as far as they will go and its still not flat. I think a 1" body lift and a custom crossmember/skid is the way to get it flat.

[wakkjobb]

Check out this build; I think he DD it with the flat belly for a while? It's VERY VERY well documented as well. He did a bunch of his own fabrication and building, looks really good! And there's a dovetail there too...

http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=40177.0

Makes me want a Toy of my own... 

Someday...
Dan