how low can a beddy be dropped

[lsh]

Hi all

I am a new member to the forum, I don't own a beddy as yet..... am looking into buying one shortly. The Qusetion I have is: how low can a bedford be lowered? And will the rear and front need to be tubbed out? If anyone can help me please let me know...... or if you have / or point me in the direction of any pic's of a super low beddy please let me know.

Thanks
LSH

[BusyKiwi]

as low as you can afford - money will buy you anything.

custom rod shop have 2inch drop spindles for the front of bedfords and you can retension the spring a little, other than that you need to spend big money on major mods

[Merlin]

I grafted Jag control arms onto the bedi front cradle which alows you to drop 7" because the Jag upper arms are shorter than the bedi and the stub axle is mounted higher up the spindle and as a bonus they have big killer brakes and are holden stud pattern lots of work but (approx 300 hours in it ) there was pics on the old buga site of it   Cheers neil

[Dano]

Busy can you still get these drop spindles??  how much , prob HQ stud pattern  too I presume

[obsession]

 

[Merlin]

you can still get those drop spindles mark o has a set on his van but they are a bit of work to fit you have to cut modify and weld the lower control arm to accept the holden ball joint but that said his van is one of the best riding bedi's ive ridden in (he'll probably get a fat head when he reads this) Cheers Neil

[Dano]

anyone got any phone/details etc..... is that Castlemaine rod shop / a web site ?? will start searching

didn't have any joy with CRS...so far...

[Merlin]

I will get Mark to post all the details for ya          Cheers Neil

[BusyKiwi]

dano, yeah i was meaning castlemaine rod shop

[mark.o]

i got my 2inch drop stubs from castlemain rod shop about 4 years ago cost $450.00 back then, they take hQ rotors and brakes or torana brakes , the paper work that comes with the stubs is a bit rough but give you the basics to work it out,you need to graft in a hQ lower balljoint and reshape the end of the a arm for disc clearence, the back of the stub needs to be milled for spacers and longer bolts for the steering arm, the spring tower needs to be trimed for caliper clearence, this setup also narrows the wheel track by 1 inch per side which allows for deeper dish rims.
hope this helps in the discission making