narrow beam installation 74 bus

secto · **Joined:** Wed May 21, 2008 4:15 pm **Posts:** 17

Does anybody know who can install narrow beam on a 74 bus?

psychosquirrel · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:21 pm

Where are you located; Houston?

Never mind I see now; have you done the research yet?

Are you gonna put in a splitty beam?

secto · **Joined:** Wed May 21, 2008 4:15 pm **Posts:** 17

in pearland, I have beam and spindles "wagenswest" I don't want to get into because i don't have all the tools I think.

psychosquirrel · **Posted:** Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:25 pm

Guess I cant help then!

The Toy Box · **Joined:** Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:08 pm **Posts:** 392

If you got everything from my boy Nate, then its a matter of bolting them on. All you need is a jack, some metric sockets, wrenches, and time..PM me and i'll give ya my number if you run into a problem. How much of a drop did you go on the spindles? Sounds like a cool project

slammerd · **Posted:** Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:41 pm

Yeah if you have the tools, then it should be a pretty straight forward swap. You have to disconnect a few things like your ebrake cables, tie rods, pitman arm, poss. your gas cable. Just have a jack and a friend. Those beams are heavy and akward :thumbs:

Kirk · **Joined:** Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:36 pm **Posts:** 39

The Toy Box wrote:

If you got everything from my boy Nate, then its a matter of bolting them on. All you need is a jack, some metric sockets, wrenches, and time..PM me and i'll give ya my number if you run into a problem. How much of a drop did you go on the spindles? Sounds like a cool project

Ditto. I've done it. If Kirk can do it, anyone can. Its pretty straight forward. How are your ball joints? This would be a good time to replace them. Also, did you buy narrowed tie rods, or are you narrowing them yourself?

Kirk · **Joined:** Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:36 pm **Posts:** 39

These are the basic pictures of me and a buddy doing mine.

Two ebrake cables, a speedo cable, a clutch cable, a steering linkage, some tie rods, ball joints, and misc other things, and the beam comes right out!

Narrowed my tie rods...

All new balljoints in.....

What are you doing for the rears? Wagenswest plates.

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gostros · **Posted:** Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:46 pm

wow kirk, your bus is solid looking

Fitz · **Posted:** Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:14 am

nice....post up some after pics with it slammed

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