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by **LOGANSTANFORTH** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 10:25 pm

how much room is there between the back edge of the wheel tub and the frame rails.......i want to mini-tub my 90 2wd.......its going to be a drag truck mostly with some pulling and i want to have as much tire clearance as possible, plus it will look cool......

by **slowdiesel** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:42 am

I will have to go and and measure it for you, I would say its about 3 or 4 inches I cut out of mine. You can only go as far as the springs witch are mounted on the outside of the frame. If you move them to the inside of the frame rails, wow you can fit a big tire under there.

by **LOGANSTANFORTH** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 9:01 am

slowdiesel wrote:I will have to go and and measure it for you, I would say its about 3 or 4 inches I cut out of mine. You can only go as far as the springs witch are mounted on the outside of the frame. If you move them to the inside of the frame rails, wow you can fit a big tire under there.

thanks, i figured it was 3 or 4 inches, i thought about doing inboard springs but if im going that far, its getting 4 linked......

im building it into a drag mostly truck, it will never tow, it may go play out on the street some though, cause i got a 4x4 2nd gen to pull the sled with, and a 93 for a tow truck......im going to try and get the truck down to around 5K with me in it, it weights 5330 with me in it now and i weight 330........i figure if i do enough stripping i can get it that far.......

by **RumbleFish** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:40 pm

ive seen a few gasser drag trucks in the 72-93 body that use 2 sets of factory wheels wells to tub it with a factory-ish appearance. i always planned on that for my big block short bed, which will never happen now that i have found diesels. basically, you use part of another wheel well to make a wider well in the bed. its pretty slick.

by **KTA** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:02 pm

Why not just use a dually bed? Then you can fit a ton of wheel!!

by **GO OVRIT** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 3:19 pm

RumbleFish wrote:ive seen a few gasser drag trucks in the 72-93 body that use 2 sets of factory wheels wells to tub it with a factory-ish appearance. i always planned on that for my big block short bed, which will never happen now that i have found diesels. basically, you use part of another wheel well to make a wider well in the bed. its pretty slick.

That does make a really clean setup.

by **LOGANSTANFORTH** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:47 pm

that is how i was going to tub it Rumble......

im going to lower it 2 inches in the rear and wrap a set of 33x10.50x16 M/T's on my 16x8 Weld Scorpio V's........ive found several slightly used sets VERY cheap, i may go new though.........with that setup they dont rub unless you drop it more than 2 inches........ive been talking to a guy over on CompD that just put a set under the rear of his truck on 16x7 ford wheels......also Brian i may just go with a dually flare also and bolt a really wide set of steam rollers under it......

by **Oddfire** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:39 am

KTA wrote:Why not just use a dually bed? Then you can fit a ton of wheel!!

HaHa

by **RumbleFish** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 7:20 am

something like this. although, ive seen it done by adding a section from a 2nd set of stock wheel wells, it depends on how wide you wanna go i guess. anyway, you get the idea.

by **LOGANSTANFORTH** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 8:45 am

biggest problem is the leaf springs now, the tub is the easy part.......maybe i should just run them now and back halve it when i get time.....

by **93_Fummins** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:23 am

Spring-under conversion lined up with the frame rails. Simple mounts, adjust height with shackle length. Cheap and easy, if you don't mind a few simple fabrications. Also gives added benifit of less axle wrap...so they say.

by **Oddfire** » Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:07 am

93_Fummins wrote:gives added benifit of less axle wrap....

X2

by **LOGANSTANFORTH** » Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:46 pm

keep the FF 70 or go 9 inch is the next question......cause i would prefer to keep it 8 lug and FF.........

by **93_Fummins** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:33 am

Just throwing it out there, but they do make full-floating axle housings for 9-inch differential setups...you can find them in some dirt-track and circle-track race cars. Makes for suuuuuuuuuuper easy gear swaps. Here are a few examples:

http://www.lefthanderchassis.com/87.html

http://www.strangeengineering.net/catalog/index.html (p89 for "Float Axles")

However, although a full floating 9-inch would be the ultimate, you'd better be ready to drop some serious coin because you're talking all out racing axle now.

IMO, run the 70 until it blows to pieces or you want to shead weight, then get serious.

by **Oddfire** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:45 pm

Just gut the floor of the bed and put a cover over the top. :lol:

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