Show me your 4" narrowed beams

[ballbag]

I know I believe it's a right pig of a job

I've got a load of 1mm cutting discs from work so I should be OK.

 

[ballbag]

All welded and one shock tower off which, incidently wasn't that hard. It only took about 10 minutes

 

[Joval]

Looking good.

 

[ballbag]

Cheers mate :mrgreen:


Shock towers on

 

[ground hugger]

Hi
just a little tip I was told when doing mine

I bolted the end plates to the van but put 3 sheets of A4 behind the plate and chassis,
Then mocked/centralised it up and tacked it together
Removed beam and weld up, the sheets of A4 give you clearance when re fitting

Looking Good

 

[ballbag]

Cheers dude, i've mounted it now and it's just waiting to be welded in position

 

[ballbag]

I'm well pleased with me self

 

[pete nice]

And so you should be. It's a **** job! It takes guts to get in & do one yourself. I bought someone else's effort & was tighter than a tight thing to get in.

Looks good so far...

 

[andewilson]

looks all good mate. i tried to do the same thing on my bus but when i cut the ends off the tubes were fooooooked.
i ended up buying a ce beam. heres a few pics

 

[pete nice]

Watch out for the lower shock mount hitting the beam plate too...

 

[ballbag]

You mean the shock mount on the trailing arm?

I'mm gonna trim the bottom of the plate anyway because I think it will hit the floor. Also don't forget I have the new T2D dropped spindles and reversed balljoints so I don't think it will be an issue, cheers for the heads up though dude and thanks for the earlier compliments

 

[ballbag]

Well it's all welded up now, just gotta put the idler pin bracket and the steering damper bracket back on.


Then paint it 8)

 

[ballbag]

It's done 8) , just got to re-connect all the ancilleries that go through the beam.

 

[mcvw]

Jay, that looks fookin' ace! Makes the sprinstars look even cooler!!!

Do the tyres clear the inner part of the front arch now?

 

[ballbag]

Cheers mate

Not sure how it'll drive yet.

 

[dubscum]

4" scratch build linkpin, provided for and fitted by slamwerks

 

[ballbag]

^^^^^^^^^^^^ 8) 8) 8) 8) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[windsurfer]

T2D 4" narrowed beam :mrgreen:

 

[dubscum]

i read this at 6:15 this morning while i was eating my shreddies (sad bastard i know) didn't notice the 2nd page got to the bottom of the first and posted mine. I <3 your work mate, looks really good !!!!!!!!!!