oakley6575

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Mcgaughy's for me. Didn't know if it should have come with a template or not.

slonlow2000

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I'd scan mine for ya but i'm sure after a few uploads and emailing and printing it wouldn't all come out right. Plus mines for 99-01 specific. I see you sig is newer than that.

Hoping to have it done in a couple weekends. I live in some apartments in the next town over from where I keep the truck, so I can only work on it on the weekends. I was hoping to have more done, but I just got the chain hoist last night to pick up the bed.

GMCtrk

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You did right by removing the bed. I did my flip/notch install with the bed on and it was kind of a bitch.

slonlow2000

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Yeah I needed to clean everything up anyways. As you can see the dealer I bought it from "detailed" it with spray paint. So I need to try and clean off alot of the dirt and paint some stuff, or under coat it. Not 100% sure yet.

slonlow2000

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Got the notches marked out





Then ran into a fitment issue, i'm hoping the notch just goes up over this weld in the frame.







So I just pryed it up over the weld and continued

Then I started drilling



Cleaned up the edges and painted it a little





Notch back in for the final time





1 side all bolted in

slonlow2000

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Driver side cut out



Backside of the cutout, it goes right through the factory bump stop brackets



And more drilling



It makes a mess



Bolted in, and took out the leaf springs



View of the inside brace to the driver side notch, and where I think the directed say to place the bracket that was removed



Pass side spring pulled and I painted by shackle bracket on the frame, the leaf spring, and the drop shackle since it was rusting pretty good





The driver side was not as easy however, damn hanger bolt would not come out due to the gas tank, and I wasn't about to pull the tank



Pass side almost done, just lacking the shocks





Didn't paint the whole frame rail on the driver side, going to wait until I can pull it outside and wash off all the cross members and paint it all



Back under its own weight for the most part

UnVmy5.3

So your kit in the rear was a axle flip shackles and hangers?

slonlow2000

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Its just a normal flip kit, this truck already had 2" drop shackles on it when I bought it. I moved them to the 1" drop hole so it'll be a total of 7" in the rear instead of 6". If it ends up being to much I'll have to hunt down some factory shackles.

beastmode

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Great looking build so far man. Can't wait to see er slammed

GMCtrk

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I cut the end off the drivers front hanger bolt. This allowed me to remove it without dropping the gas tank.