Custom 1967 Chevrolet C10 Custom Suspension - Floored in Comfort
10. Moving forward to the front suspension of the truck, you'll notice that we've replaced the upper control arms that were originally on our Scott's Hot Rods IFS. The reason for doing so is because we needed the suspension to have more travel than typically found with Scott's arms. The limiting factor isn't so much the arms as it is the ball joints. The upper ball joints that come with Scott's arms will pivot 17 degrees, which translated into 8 inches of travel with our chassis. We needed 12 inches of travel to give the truck enough lift to uncover the 22-inch wheel and tire package and make a U-turn. Replacing the upper ball joints with spherical bearings mounted at a different angle would help, but converting the stock arms would be more work than simply building new arms. Our new front arms were built exactly like the rears, and we widened the design to give us more room to mount the airbags. Again, we used spherical bearings with a high misalignment spacer to increase the amount of pivot offered by the bearings. We retained the Scott's Hot Rods lower arms because they worked just fine.
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