Ok I have a 97 Chevy dually and want to turn it into a phantom dually what parts do I need to find to do this that will work and the truck will be lowered at the same time with a 6/8 drop and the only thing I will be hauling around is wife and kids? Please any help will be great cannot find anyone local to help me figure this out and since I work in the oilfield I only have time to buy the parts so trying to buy everything and then take a few days off to have the work done on it

Swap out all your 1 ton stuff for 1/2 ton parts and get a flip kit,spindles,coils, and notch.

So its that easy and the same year half ton correct or does it matter I'm new to the dually scene so I might ask alot of dumb questions so please have patients

My truck is a 3500 but has had the suspension and rear end swapped out for 1/2 ton stuff. The rear in my truck is a 14 bolt sf out of a 90 454 ss truck.

So if you already have a dually, why do you want to make it a phantom dually? What are you looking to achieve? Do you not want the dually fenders at all? and just make it a crew cab fleetside? Or keep the dually fenders and switch over to non dually wheels?

I am wanting to keep the dually fenders but want to go with a set of larger tires and rims in the back if there is a way to achieve that without swapping over to 1/2 ton stuff I would go that way. I am wanting to go the whole Pro-street look. Way to expensive to buy alot of tires when i can just buy 2 large tires and then front tires. I really dig the Phantom style trucks.

If you were close by I would swap you my stuff for yours. My truck was born a dually and the original owner changed everything over.

yeah your alittle ways away but that would be awesome being I live in Texas you would think there is alot of Dually guys around to help me out but I havent seen many slammed duallies around

Will you be driving it daily. Like say, in the rain???

No I have a few other cars and being I work in the Oilfield I have to have a 4x4 also so no it stays at home most of the time

Oh. ok . because those wide tires are wicked in the rain.

Weld used to make a really wide 8 lug wheel for phantoms (14" or 15" wide I believe) don't know if they are still availible.

lol 15 wide.... now thats some serious tire

Yea, most people down here dont like thier 1tons low to the ground, i have one of two in my little town.lol

if your thinking of running the M\T sportsmen or the protac it looks all cool but you got two problems the side walls are tall and soft so you get side movement

and then our trucks are heavy and you'll have to keep the air pressure up and you'll wear the center out of the tire
I had mine on for about 3.5 months and it was a little scetchy going into a corner hard you'd never know if the ass end was coming around on you.
I drove mine everyday so I used up my tires in that time

just my 2cents thats what I didnt like about that set up

Semi's in front, super singles at rear.