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Originally Posted by hotrod66
if the bushings haven't ben done just remember there almost 50 years old and they are cheep parts. nothing a saturday afternoon a hammer and some wood cant fix
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Good call. This hadn't even occurred to me.
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Originally Posted by jtrichard
If you take a tape measure from the front fender line at the front of the doors to the front of the rear wheels i bet you that the right side is farther back than the left and since you said you don't have leaf springs that takes out a center bolt problem ...SO i would say your right trailing arm bushing is gone... or the right U bolts are loose and the axle has shifted some how (less likely) i doubt the pan-hard bar could be bad enough to make it DOG-TRACK that bad
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I have some measuring to do…I'll take a look at the U bolts as well as the trailing arms and see if those check out.
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Originally Posted by markeb01
If it's a stepside and only looks a little crooked, it can also be optics. Because the 1955 bed is too narrow for the cab, you can easily see the side of the cab making the truck look like it's dog tracking. Getting in the right lane and following behind the right rear tire can make it appear to be dog tracking the other direction.
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Not a step, but I definitely see your point. Parallax does some funny things
Thanks for all the advice guys! Feeling a lot better about it now.
Sean