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**omodified** · 10-16-2011, 02:47 PM

Congrats Spooky. Looks like a good start. Replacing your springs is really easy. Autozone rents a spring compressor. You take the tire off. Compress the spring. Disconnect shock. Use a pickle fork to disconnect the upper ball joint from the spindle. Spring comes right out. Put the new spring in reverse of that.

As far as your brake pulling left issue, I would take the left front drum off and inspect the brake parts. It sounds like maybe a bad wheel cylinder. Sometime those things go bad and leak. It will cause the brake to grab hard which could make it pull left. That would be a good place to start.

10-16-2011, 02:47 PM	#5
omodified Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Race City U.S.A. Posts: 1,040	Re: Where to begin with this 69 C10 project? Congrats Spooky. Looks like a good start. Replacing your springs is really easy. Autozone rents a spring compressor. You take the tire off. Compress the spring. Disconnect shock. Use a pickle fork to disconnect the upper ball joint from the spindle. Spring comes right out. Put the new spring in reverse of that. As far as your brake pulling left issue, I would take the left front drum off and inspect the brake parts. It sounds like maybe a bad wheel cylinder. Sometime those things go bad and leak. It will cause the brake to grab hard which could make it pull left. That would be a good place to start. __________________ Board Member #87725 My build thread... http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=813848 Last edited by omodified; 10-16-2011 at 03:01 PM.