Finally started installing my Kelderman Kit

[TBucks]

Well as some of you know I picked up a Kelderman airbag kit for literally less the nothing on ebay. Mind you the kit just came with the brackets and the bags. I started the other day cutting off the stock bump stop mounts. started by pulling out my belltech lowering springs (which are for sale by the way)

Then I cleaned it up with some paint added some new Belltech Nitro 2 shocks and installed the bags with the brackets that mounted right up to the factory brackets. Then Installed some of NORCAL SS bump stops.

So far aired all the way out the truck still sits at 33 inches ground to fender lip in the rear with about 2 inches between the bump stop and the frame so need to figure out why its not going lower but other wise super happy about the ride when it is aired up. Gonna start on the front this week since things are kind of slow at work. Havent decided on which air management system Im gonna run yet so just getting the air lines ran to where Im gonna mount the tank and compressor and setting them on shrader valves for the time being. So this how it looks now with the bags in the rear and the front is a belltech 3" drop spindle.

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[TBucks]

Sits on 26" Giovanna Andros

 

[yates ™]

Use rear shock extenders

 

[TBucks]

Use rear shock extenders

Already on

 

[TBucks]

You can see the brackets a little in the bottom of this pic and shocks are no where near collapsed

 

[Fosscore]

Looks good.

 

[OHSIXX]

Looks good-lose the chrome door handles tho...like the wheels too!

 

[TBucks]

Looks good-lose the chrome door handles tho...like the wheels too!

Yep just started looking into that cause before my rims were black with a machined/chrome looking lip so it worked with the Denali accents but since I just got them re powdercoated and I decided to go all black its time to get rid of the Chrome.

 

[NeverSatisfied]

Looks awesome, can't wait to see it completely done.

And I think I just found my next set of wheels, those are badass

 

[aflumb]

how it the heck are you guys getting the norcal bump stops in. i have them just couldn't figure out how to install them. Then again i was in a hurry.

truck looks good though

 

[TBucks]

how it the heck are you guys getting the norcal bump stops in. i have them just couldn't figure out how to install them. Then again i was in a hurry.

truck looks good though

Place the bump stop in the hole then take your 9/16 and tape one side of it off, I used electical tape. Then place the nut in the wrench with the tape facing down then feed the wrench between the pad and the rear end and twist the bump stop onto the nut.

 

[yukondoit]

Looks really good! Love the wheels also.

 

[bigrhino]

NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What the name of the rims? Also what tire/rim size?

 

[bigrhino]

Never mind I reread your post.

 

[NORCAL SS]

when your ready for the truck to sit lower/ride better/lower ride height hit me up.

1) on the rear bumpstops you need to cut mine down. MAKE SURE you dont cut to much or tire will hit the fenderlip/driveshaft will hit the bottom of the body
2) Make sure the shocks are the right length. They should be 20.5 inches max extended
3) invest inthe spohn rear bar kit (665 shipped i have) it will prevent the driveshaft from pushing into the output shaft which has snapped the shaft in the trans before when guys drive low. The a arms you adjust back to push the rear end backward and recenter in fenderwell.

 

[TBucks]

when your ready for the truck to sit lower/ride better/lower ride height hit me up.

1) on the rear bumpstops you need to cut mine down. MAKE SURE you dont cut to much or tire will hit the fenderlip/driveshaft will hit the bottom of the body
2) Make sure the shocks are the right length. They should be 20.5 inches max extended
3) invest inthe spohn rear bar kit (665 shipped i have) it will prevent the driveshaft from pushing into the output shaft which has snapped the shaft in the trans before when guys drive low. The a arms you adjust back to push the rear end backward and recenter in fenderwell.

Ok and the shocks are 19.75 max extended and 12.2 collapsed and I have your shock extenders on as well . I know you said I should go to the tbss bags to ride lower, what is the difference and emays suburban rode lower than mine with the same kit. I pulled the plastic liner on the wheel wells and Im getting the lips rolled. I noticed with the lower stance that the wheel sit further forward in the well so Ill be wanting the spohn bar kit. Im guessing that comes with rear up and lower control arms as well as panhard bar? Also like I mentioned before how come with your shorter sway bar arms does the sway bar hit the panhard bar frame mount?

 

[NORCAL SS]

the lower you go the more the wheels get sucked forward
the lower you go the more the pass side wheel gets pused out.
the spohn bar kit fixes that which is all 5 bars.

with my shorter endlinks you need to redrill the drivers side bracket holes like instructions say. then the link with more twist goes to the pass side and the swaybar will clear the panhard bar bracket. If you do not do that then the swaybar will hit the panhard bar bracket preventing the truck coming down more.

 

[TBucks]

Also I was gonna put the kelderman front bags with my 2" drop spindles so it sits lower aired out. I was gonna make new wheel wells to make room for the clearance and do some reloacting of certain engine bay components to make room. then was gonna roll my front wheel wells as well. Or is there another reason I cant run the drop spindle and the bags?

 

[TBucks]

the lower you go the more the wheels get sucked forward
the lower you go the more the pass side wheel gets pused out.
the spohn bar kit fixes that which is all 5 bars.

with my shorter endlinks you need to redrill the drivers side bracket holes like instructions say. then the link with more twist goes to the pass side and the swaybar will clear the panhard bar bracket. If you do not do that then the swaybar will hit the panhard bar bracket preventing the truck coming down more.

Ok yeah Im aware of that. Like I said Im familiar with off road suspension and suspension geometry. We deal with 4 linked rear suspensions but they are tube chasis designed in house so we dont have to work around factory mounts and applications so binding and clearance issues dont really happen.

 

[NORCAL SS]

Do yourself a favor remove the red bumpstop and see if the truck goes down. If the panhard bar is not hitting the swaybar and if the shock isnt bottomed out then your pretty much at the lowest point and the bag is bottomed out. There has been 2 cases where a taller bag was used on the kit the customers had to get them swapped out. this was years ago.