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Will Lowering Your Car Automatically Make It Handle Better?
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Will Lowering Your Car Automatically Make It Handle Better?

July 16, 2021 Roadkill Customs
Body roll, center of gravity, and how suspension components like sway bars, coil-over shocks, and control arms help improve handling. [More…]
Suspension Design ~ Scrub Radius Explained
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Suspension Design ~ Scrub Radius Explained

September 3, 2020 Roadkill Customs
Scrub radius affects how the tire contact patch interacts with the road during cornering, braking, and acceleration, and can cause unique toe characteristics depending on the design. [More…]
Lower Ford F100 For Under $100
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Lowering a Ford F100 For Under $100

April 24, 2019 Roadkill Customs
Lowering a 1971 Ford F100 truck for less than $100.00 out of pocket including flipping the axle, cutting coils and C-Notching the frame. [More…]
How To Adjust Ride Height With Torsion Bars
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How Torsion Bars Work and How To Adjust Ride Height

April 19, 2019 Roadkill Customs
Dylan McCool demonstrates how torsion bars work and how to adjust your vehicle ride height with torsion bars. [More…]
The Basics of an IFS Front End
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The Basics of a 4WD IFS Front End

April 2, 2019 Roadkill Customs
Four-wheel drive independent front suspension (IFS) systems have been used on a lot of pickups since the 1980s. [More…]
Slammed, Chopped, and Notched ~ Zac's C10 Chevy Gets LOW
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Slammed, Chopped, and Notched ~ Zac’s C10 Chevy Gets LOW

March 29, 2019 Roadkill Customs
Zac takes his Chevy C10 chopper hauler and gets it real low to the ground with a lowering kit from Belltech. We approve. [More…]
Ford King Pins and Spindles
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Tech Talk ~ Ford Spindles and King Pin Sets

March 16, 2019 Roadkill Customs
Speedway Motors and Heath Petzoldt walk you through the process of putting different types of kingpins together in this video. [More…]
Steering 101 ~ Main Parts and Functions
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Steering 101 ~ Main Steering System Parts and Functions

March 13, 2019 Roadkill Customs
The actual steering wheel function is obvious, there are several other parts to make it all work so we’re going to run through the basics. [More…]
How To Swap Out a Lock Cylinder
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How To Swap Out a Lock Cylinder

February 17, 2019 Roadkill Customs
You score a junkyard tilt steering column, but of course, the keys are missing. Here’s how to swap out the lock cylinder. [More…]
How To Fix Sloppy Steering ~ Problems and Solutions
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How To Fix Sloppy Steering ~ Problems and Solutions

February 15, 2019 Roadkill Customs
Armed with the knowledge you’ll gain from this video, there’s no reason your steering can’t be made tighter and more precise. [More…]

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