Thanks for sharing, Josh! I'm happy to see that you removed ONLY the lift-kit, leaving your digits attached and unharmed! Trust me, I'm well-aware of the "pucker-factor" that occurs anytime one considers sticking their hands in precarious environments! Enjoy your Holiday Season! Be safe!
LOW is the way to GO!!!! Will look for the b.van driving on a beach some where in the future, music cranked UP!! Great build series. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022!!
Glad you got it down were it should be with out and problems or worst !!! Boogie ore custom vans what I like to call them should not be jacked up , lowed if anything !! Merry Christmas !!!
Was there any kind of steering linkage extender you had to take out? I have an 88 that I am looking at *putting* a 2in body lift on maybe, so if you still have all the stuff you took off of yours I'd buy it from you!
This van was a handicap van. It had a hydraulic tiller for steering, not a standard column. You can buy steering shafts and u joints from Speedway Motors or Summit Racing to build custom length steering.
@@QuickSpeedShop Cool. Did they have to use any longer wiring or brake lines or anything, or do you reckon a stock van would have enough slack everywhere for a couple inches?
It's hard to tell because everything was modified on the van. The steering and shifter linkage would be the biggest deal. IMO body lifts look bad unless you raise the bumpers too so they line up in the stock location. Also rad hoses might be an issue as the engine will be farther away since the rad moves with the body.
@@QuickSpeedShop Yeah, I agree that the bumpers look back if you don't move them. I am planning to weld up a bull bar / brush guard on the front so I think that will be fine, and it doesn't look like the rear bumper would be very hard to make a relocation bracket thing for. I dunno..... 🤔 I gotta figure out if I even want to do a body lift at all. I was hoping to get 5" lift overall but the only suspension lifts for this ago of van appears to be 3" (and I don't feel comfortable bending the I beams myself!), so maybe that will be enough. The overall plan is to get enough ground clearance to keep it from dragging on water breaks on forest service roads. Thanks for all the info, bro.
I'm doing a swap in a 79 E100 300 6 to a 302 v8. Can you tell me what engine pedestals I need for this swap? The 300 6 won't work with the v8. I can't find any information on this anywhere. Thank you.
I'm not sure the difference. I would think that the crossmember would be the same for all vans no matter what engine. I would just buy V8 mounts from Rock Auto. They should just bolt up to the frame.
its not the mounts that bolt to the motor but the perches that bolt to the frame that are different from the 6 to the 8. Thank you for the response to my question, be well have a merry christmas
The real-time lowering of the body should be sped-up if not removed. You're not exhibiting an appreciation for your viewers' time. If you want your content to be watched, make it as watchable and engaging as you can. Leaving out slow processes with forgone conclusions is the cheapest way to do that; it's FREE.
Watching you wonder aloud then reach a guess of a conclusion is not entertaining. It's a waste of time. That should be edited out. Percurious is not a word. It's you mispronouncing precarious. Removing a body lift, which you describe as commonly installed in the 70s and 80s, is not "old school" when done with a floor jack. That's the natural means to employ and is a decidedly modern task. Doing so with a lift rather than a jack would be more modern but as body lifts are a relatively modern modification, there is no "old school" method of un-modifying vehicles modified that way.
This was a handicap conversion van. The body lift was added to clear the wheel chair pan under the driver's seat. I know what body lifts are and why they were installed. No one put then on vans. Everyone put them on 4x4 trucks back in the day, like the '80s and '90s back when big lifts were 4" suspension lifts combined with 3" body lifts. I subscribed to all the 4x4 mags back then, I know what they are for. I can also guarantee you that most home builders would have installed body lifts with a jack as no one had a 2 post lift at home before the early 2000s. I don't have a lift hence the floor jack.
@@QuickSpeedShop if "no one put them on vans"...what's this video about? My point was that those lifts WERE put on with jacks, not lifts, most of the time. We agree on that. You seem to be seeking a combative exchange rather than appreciating engagement and comments on your content. That's disappointing.
You realize your "comment engagement" is to literally correct the way I speak, say "this is wrong, that is wrong, this part isn't called this, you should have done this, this part of the video is too long, etc". You realize that comes off as really annoying and obnoxious, right? The reason, this van had the body lift was because it was a wheel chair conversion van since it was new. No one put body lifts in stock vans. This whole playlist is about taking all the handicap junk off, putting the van back together, and then turning it into a custom '70s style van...even though it's an '88.
Glad you got to keep your digits! Not everyone can have a 2 post lift to make body lifts easy. This should be a huge help.
If I ever get it set up, yes!
Thanks for sharing, Josh! I'm happy to see that you removed ONLY the lift-kit, leaving your digits attached and unharmed! Trust me, I'm well-aware of the "pucker-factor" that occurs anytime one considers sticking their hands in precarious environments! Enjoy your Holiday Season! Be safe!
Thanks Harry!
LOW is the way to GO!!!! Will look for the b.van driving on a beach some where in the future, music cranked UP!! Great build series. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022!!
It'll be on the road early '22!
Thanks for the video share. Merry Christmas buddy.
Merry Christmas!
👍🏻Have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!
You too, thank you!
Glad you got it down were it should be with out and problems or worst !!! Boogie ore custom vans what I like to call them should not be jacked up , lowed if anything !! Merry Christmas !!!
Yes agree. It was lifted because it was a handicap conversion.
Happy holidays glad to see another vid 🍻
Merry Christmas
The bodylift gives extra engine room for work and heat displacement.
It's 7:10 and UA-cam shows this as being posted 3 hours ago (?). YIKES!! Merry Christmas, Josh!
Merry Christmas
Have to do injector cups on my 7.3 powerstroke e350. Hopefully I can get enough room to do that by jacking up the frame.
Was there any kind of steering linkage extender you had to take out? I have an 88 that I am looking at *putting* a 2in body lift on maybe, so if you still have all the stuff you took off of yours I'd buy it from you!
This van was a handicap van. It had a hydraulic tiller for steering, not a standard column. You can buy steering shafts and u joints from Speedway Motors or Summit Racing to build custom length steering.
@@QuickSpeedShop Cool. Did they have to use any longer wiring or brake lines or anything, or do you reckon a stock van would have enough slack everywhere for a couple inches?
It's hard to tell because everything was modified on the van. The steering and shifter linkage would be the biggest deal. IMO body lifts look bad unless you raise the bumpers too so they line up in the stock location. Also rad hoses might be an issue as the engine will be farther away since the rad moves with the body.
@@QuickSpeedShop Yeah, I agree that the bumpers look back if you don't move them. I am planning to weld up a bull bar / brush guard on the front so I think that will be fine, and it doesn't look like the rear bumper would be very hard to make a relocation bracket thing for. I dunno..... 🤔 I gotta figure out if I even want to do a body lift at all. I was hoping to get 5" lift overall but the only suspension lifts for this ago of van appears to be 3" (and I don't feel comfortable bending the I beams myself!), so maybe that will be enough. The overall plan is to get enough ground clearance to keep it from dragging on water breaks on forest service roads.
Thanks for all the info, bro.
you could use some fluid film under there
I'll be spraying it when everything is done.
I'm doing a swap in a 79 E100 300 6 to a 302 v8. Can you tell me what engine pedestals I need for this swap? The 300 6 won't work with the v8. I can't find any information on this anywhere. Thank you.
I'm not sure the difference. I would think that the crossmember would be the same for all vans no matter what engine. I would just buy V8 mounts from Rock Auto. They should just bolt up to the frame.
its not the mounts that bolt to the motor but the perches that bolt to the frame that are different from the 6 to the 8. Thank you for the response to my question, be well have a merry christmas
Where are you located?
Western NY.
The real-time lowering of the body should be sped-up if not removed. You're not exhibiting an appreciation for your viewers' time. If you want your content to be watched, make it as watchable and engaging as you can. Leaving out slow processes with forgone conclusions is the cheapest way to do that; it's FREE.
I'm not going back to edit 3 year old videos, sorry!
@QuickSpeedShop i was providing a suggestion for future reference, not asking for a post-edit.
Watching you wonder aloud then reach a guess of a conclusion is not entertaining. It's a waste of time. That should be edited out.
Percurious is not a word. It's you mispronouncing precarious.
Removing a body lift, which you describe as commonly installed in the 70s and 80s, is not "old school" when done with a floor jack. That's the natural means to employ and is a decidedly modern task. Doing so with a lift rather than a jack would be more modern but as body lifts are a relatively modern modification, there is no "old school" method of un-modifying vehicles modified that way.
This was a handicap conversion van. The body lift was added to clear the wheel chair pan under the driver's seat. I know what body lifts are and why they were installed. No one put then on vans. Everyone put them on 4x4 trucks back in the day, like the '80s and '90s back when big lifts were 4" suspension lifts combined with 3" body lifts. I subscribed to all the 4x4 mags back then, I know what they are for. I can also guarantee you that most home builders would have installed body lifts with a jack as no one had a 2 post lift at home before the early 2000s. I don't have a lift hence the floor jack.
@@QuickSpeedShop if "no one put them on vans"...what's this video about? My point was that those lifts WERE put on with jacks, not lifts, most of the time. We agree on that. You seem to be seeking a combative exchange rather than appreciating engagement and comments on your content. That's disappointing.
You realize your "comment engagement" is to literally correct the way I speak, say "this is wrong, that is wrong, this part isn't called this, you should have done this, this part of the video is too long, etc". You realize that comes off as really annoying and obnoxious, right? The reason, this van had the body lift was because it was a wheel chair conversion van since it was new. No one put body lifts in stock vans. This whole playlist is about taking all the handicap junk off, putting the van back together, and then turning it into a custom '70s style van...even though it's an '88.