[gringoloco]

Bringin' back an oldie here...

Originally Posted by elcurioso

I made this conversion a couple of months ago the parts that were needed are as follow correct me if im missing some thing.:
2 trailing arms,
2 u-bolts and hardware,
2 coil springs,
4 coil retaining plates,
4 nuts and bolts for retaining the coils,
12 grade 8 bolts to retain the trailing arms to the center crossmember,
2 spring perches or an axle that came from a truck with oem coils (which I opted to do) cuz u got a bargain,
2 lower shock mounting harware( early classic sells a kit that includes panhard bar and shock hardware which I would highly reccomend do to the amount of drop that you looking into)
The last thing that I think im missing is the track bar mounting bracket.
Just my $.02

Contemplating the same, I believe mine was an original trailing arm that some PO converted to leaves for who knows what reason

The truck has the trailing arm brackets on the cross member and the panhard bar bracket on the frame (both riveted, all of the leaf brackets are bolted on.) I will crawl under and see where the crossmember is in the morning. Hopefully there is one in the rear position.

Question is: I don't see it on elcurioso's list; is there some sort of upper mounting plate for the coils or do they just bolt to the frame directly? a spring perch of some sort?

Thanks in advance,
Chris