that we've got the original suspension components removed we can get to
installing the air rod now this is the original spring that we took off of the S10
chassi
this is a twenty six hundred series air bag they were going to be putting in a lot
of guys run a twenty five hundred serious that's slightly smaller than this with its stock six
cylinder engine but we're putting a small block V8 in this
so course we're going to need a bigger bags so it ride better because it doesn't need the extra
air to life the heavy v_-eight engine up
now first we're going to be doing here is
installing this upper bag cup mount
this is pretty cool it's just a universal cheap item from ebay
um... it basically fits up in your stock string cop here
and bolts through the original shock mount hole I'm just going to mount this loosely for now
to show you
now with that in there
your bag is basically going to sit
up in like that
so you could see how close we are
already
with no air in it
this uh... spring cup
is pretty much sitting on the edge of the bag
overtime when you air up and drop the vehicle that's going to rub on the bag and
eventually it's gonna blow the bag out, very dangerous so what we're going to do
is
you're going to need to cut basically a small
notch this is just
a quick sketch here
show you about what we're gonna have to cut out there, so we're going to cut out that area
there
and there's also a spot
underneath the lip that we're gonna have to clear out as well
to fit the bag in and now you may not have to cut as much out if you are the using the smaller
twenty five hundred series bags
but these twenty six hundred series are a little bit bigger and they do
require larger not
done once we get that notched out we'll fit in and make sure everything is
correct
then we'll uh... start fitting up the upper bag cups and we'll
show you how to install
the bag to the lower control arm from there so let's get a start on this part
Ok, at this point we're pretty much ready to go back together with a fresh suspension
park
you get to this point you start with the versa plasma cutter
you cut a nice notch throughout here for the bag to fit up in and everything is
aired out
i put a little rubber edging along our cuts just to make sure that everything is
nice and smooth so that the
bag does get really
really close to that cut it's on a sharp edge that's going to cut the bag and then we'd
have to replace it
so, also along the way we painted everything up with chassis black and
rust encapsulator first to take care of any surface rust.
now we sealed it up with chassis black so that it's going to stay looking good
as time goes on we're driving it
we also rebuilt the front spindles with new bearings and seals were also using pro
ford's drilled in slotted rotors to help with the stopping power we're tying
everything together with pro ford steering components so that this thing's
going to be nice and tight and all these components are gonna last for a lifetime
of the truck
so let's get to putting everything together now
okay now that we've got the pro ford steering and suspension parts all mounted up we are
going to put this front and back on the truck to test the front air ride
suspension to make sure that it goes as low as they want and back up to a
comfortable ride height after we verify that everything's okay there we're going to take the
front and back off, we're going to pull this engine out and clean up the chassis and get
everything looking as good as all these other new suspension parts so stay
tuned for the next video, things should be progressing pretty quickly