ISIS F100 Chassis Update...

Okay Guys,

It has been a long day of un-bolting, cutting, grinding, welding, more grinding and bolting on the chassis for our ISIS truck.  We also picked up our new Ford 8.8 inch rear end from the media blaster.  It looks great.  A little sand blasting goes a long way to remove rust and scale.  We have a bunch of pictures and video that we shot over the course of the day.  We'll be releasing these as soon as we can get all of the production work done. 

We got the front end installed on the truck.  We put in the Heidts Superide II IFS suspension up front.

This whole process was really easy.  We cleaned up the frame and welded in the included boxing plates.  These plates fit perfectly on the frame rails of the chassis.  We measured, measured and measured again to make sure that we were had everything square and true.  From there, we dropped in the cross member and tacked it in. 

Next, we ground off the rivets for the stock rear suspension hangers and cleaned everything up.  We're using the Heidts Classic Truck 4-Link Kit. 

This kit includes all of the brackets and hangers that bolt right into the existing holes on the 1955 chassis.  We only had to open them up to fit the new bolt sizes.  This couldn't have been easier. 

We did have a few questions that were quickly answered by the Heidts technical support team.  Ron Westman in particular was really helpful. 

We ground off all of the hangers from the Mustang quadra-bind and cleaned up the axle housings.  We still need to install the new 5-lug axles and replace the bearings and seals.  That will be pretty straight forward. 

Tomorrow, we need to finish assembling the components for the 4-line in the rear and start to measure everything to make sure that we weld the rear-end in correctly.  We also need to assemble the components for the front-end to make sure that everything fits before we do the final welding on the cross-member. 

Keep an eye out for the videos from this process.  They will show you everything that you need to install the Heidts components yourself.  You can learn more about Heidts at their website: www.heidts.com.