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Re: 53 Surburban "Family Truckster"
I put a little garage time today. I re-installed the rear end. It confirmed some things and identified some new challenges...Ok so for the good. It looks like my measurements to shorten the rearend were spot on. With my current 10" wide rims they almost fit I knew it would be very tight. I will planned to drop down to a 9" wide rim to give me some more room.
The bad.......I failed to realize the position of the rear brake caliper on the rearend hits the frame. In this case it puts it right into the notch which limits how much I can lower it. The solutions for this...I will rotate the OE bracket and dust shield on the rearend and re-rill the mounting holes...This will move the caliper out of the notch.
With all my work my rear runningboard is about 1 1/2" from laying out in the back. It seems as it the bags are holding it up. The bags wont collapse anymore. I will pull the bags out totally just to confirm that the bags are limiting it from laying out. The clearance in the body seems to have done the trick to create enough clearance for the wheel to go up into the body. One other thing that will help to fully layout is the tire size that I will go with for the 22's will be almost 1/2" shorter in diameter.
Here are a few pics
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