The next task at hand was to make the rear of the truck squat down to match the front. This is where Clint and his friend Tim Parker from Street Boutique Customs joined forces. You know something amazing is about to happen, when two serious builders are working on the same ride at the same time. The truck's factory rear suspension was completely removed and about to be replaced with a custom fabricated rear suspension.

The first item in order was to step notch the rear frame section. Tim and Clint started off by constructing a custom step notch built using 1/4 thick steel plate. Since the frame rails curve inward on the truck, the new frame section had to be bent accordingly. A tubular upper bridge section was then fabricated to help strengthen the new frame section, as well as provide a mounting place for the airbags. With the lower bag mounts welded to the rear end housing, the airbags were bolted onto the upper bridge and lower bag mounts. Next, a piece of box tubing was welded between the frame rails just in front of the rear end. This was going to new upper mounting location for the shocks. But before the shocks could be mounted, the box tubing had to be notched in order to clear the new driveline angle.

With the new rear suspension in place, the factory pan hard bar was replaced with a polished stainless steel one. A new set of polished brake lines were also bent up in the final stages, and were run along side the fuel lines mounted to the new frame section. 

Well we can see that the truck gets down to a ground scraping stance, but how do you raise it? Clint chose to run 3/8-inch airline throughout the entire truck. A set of electric solenoids were installed inline to aid in raising and lowering the truck at a record- setting pace. Rather then run the typical onboard tank and compressors system, Clint decided that he would speed things up with a Nitrogen- charged system. So in went a regulator, a set billet tank brackets, and a 150 cubic foot polished aluminum tank.