New World Datsuns...

Drove around on 3" blocks for a while, with horrible driveshaft slap ... so I decided to lower it moar:

Flipped leaf maybe lowered it 10mm:

Before 3" blocks and a flipped leaf"



After:

Nice and level. Looks great!

Eagle_Adam wrote:Drool...

+1

really love them wheels on the 710. The 710 looks sweet that low.







give me the 710 please.

Wow man that does look good. Good idea on the bench vise. I should of done that with the 720 lol

Sorry we're still back in time, before the new driveshaft tunnel .... it needed a lot more hacking to drive at the height above:




But the driveshaft was still hitting .... so I welded in a brace and stopped driving the car for 8 months:

It finally wasn't rubbing with 3" blocks .... so I tried 5" blocks: ...

then it hit this thing:




Then it hit this part:

Woops.... too much sawzall ...... might as well C-notch it now:

Don't get too carried away. We know how that ends up.. lol

Yeah, that's why I named this car "another one bites the dust" .... ... but this was over a year ago, when I had the patch:

Got a set of wagon leafs from Tendril, so I used a bigger leaf as the flipped one:

finally low enough:

Sweet jesus. that thing is low :rof: How does it ride?

izzo wrote:Sweet jesus. that thing is low :rof: How does it ride?

can Indy get it out of the drive way ?


When you get into the 710, is it like falling on the ground, mofo is low.


nice

It could "maybe" get out of the garage .. if I had enough 2x6 planks ... ... the 5" blocks put the shock mounts lower than the tires:

I didn't want to be negative, but I thought that 5 inches of blocks was to much.
4 inch blocks is about it for a 521 truck, with them one really needs to use aftermarket rims to get the clearance needed in case of a flat using 510 wagon shock mounts.
To me it looks like 3 inch blocks is about the max for you, perhaps you can find or have made de-arched leafs, I cannot see your rear shackle mount, maybe some mods can be made there to lower it like I did to my 520 project.
These are roadster shackle mounts that I bolted to the frame, it's around a 4 inch drop at the shackle, but it around a 3 inch drop at the axle itself, I would never use these on a truck that was for hauling weight, but as a looker it has been fine so far.


Here is the difference on the truck with a tape measure.