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Originally Posted by superfly66
I have searched through all these threads on the disc brake conversion, dead horse. I am very new to these trucks and have read alot on them! Here is my dilemma. I have a 66 C10 Fleetside and bought 73-87, 3" drop spindles by DJM. So I have read that I only need to replace the upper and lower ball joints along with the outer tie rods for the same year spindles. So, what I ran into was the new Moog outer tie rods have a larger thread than the ones I had taken off. So does that mean I have to replace the sleeve and upper tie rod? And why do I have to replace these when I measured the outer tie rods and they were the same length as the ones I had taken off!.? And apologize in advance for jacking the original thread.
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73-87 outer tie rods are 11/16" diameter and RH thread.
63-70 outer tie rods are 5/8" diameter and LH thread.
You will need to use a 63-70 OUTER tie rod in the INNER location
You will also need a $50-$60 conversion tie rod sleeve.
The other option is to use ALL the steering from the 73-87 trucks.
All this is spelled out in the disc conversion thread at the top of the suspension forum.