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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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When I did my 65 I used a set of 72 spindles but in doing so I replaced upper and lower ball joints, inner and outer tie rods and sleeves along with the relay rod or centre link and the idler arm, all off of a 72. Had to redrill the holes to mount the idler arm and then bought 6 lug conversion rotors to keep bolt pattern the same. This was over 15 years ago. Today I would install a later crossmember or buy the correct disc spindles. Much easier and then to complicate I ended up installing the new centre link on backwards but thats another story.