A couple of people have PM'd me asking about the Silverado lift. I rebought the Revell Silverado kit today, and decided to make a lift, with a better explanations.
The insperation:
The kit:
The parts:
The tools:
-wire cutters
-testors glue
-grill lighter
-sand paper
-knife
The steps:
Get the lift blocks: They can be found on the sprues/trees
You will need 4 of these for the front alone.
Sand the ends smooth with 150 grit sand paper
Sand the lift block like this, you'll see why
Get upper A-Arms in place
Repeat what you just did, it should look like that^
Cut it where the knife is
Should look like that once your done
For the back of the lower A-Arm, you need another lift block. It needs to be cut at the angle you want your lift to be angles at.
Using the stock coil, cut it at the same angle as the lower a arm lift block
The spindle has to fit in that tiny gap.. lol, thats why you angle it..
This is what it looks like so far
After some adjustment it looks perfect..kinda..lol
Unfortunatley, the stock tie rod wont fit. So, with the grille lighter, you need to heat it, and bend it to the right shape. Not as easy as it seems..
The end result, for funt anyways.
Time for outback. Unfortunatley, the stock leaf springs are shaped like a sideways 7. It attaches to atop the fram instead of underneath, so you need to cut off the 7 hence making it shorter. You need some extenders:
Cutting off the "7" (blurry)
The springs with out the "7"
The extenders with lift blocks.
The end result
The very end results
Hopefully this clears stuff up