Rear Leafs - are 70's the same as 73's?

[Longstep70]

I have a 70 with rear leafs and I want to flip kit the rear but I've only been seeing kits for the 73 and up trucks. Will these work or are the leafs different in some way?

Andy

[70short/step]

Nope your leafs are wider (or visa/versa). Check with any of the board vendors or ECE. They have the flip kit for 67-72 leafs.

[Longstep70]

Are you sure about that? My ECE catalog doesn't have a flip kit for 67-72 and I've looked at a bunch of the vendor sites and found nothing there either. All I've seen is the flip kits for 73 and up.

[kamikazegmc]

DJM has flip kits for trucks 63-72

[Longstep70]

Thank you. I had not checked the DJM site.

[72MARIO]

That's new to me too. I went with a drop shackle and Dearched springs. To get a 5" + drop.

[Longstep70]

How does it ride with the dearched springs? I need to look into that as an option. Did you C-notch the frame?

Andy

[kamikazegmc]

how much did it cost to dearch your springs?

[72MARIO]

I have not driven it yet. Should be on the road in the next month at most.
I think it's going to ride really nice. It has to ride better than stock being closer to the ground. I have drop shocks desigend to work with a 6" drop which will also help out.

Just need to find a set of hedders that the collectors wont get ripped off. I have a set of Chevelle shorts but the hit the motor mounts. I am either going to cut the hedders and make em fit or get a set of motor mounts from Norhtwest Auto Fab.
Then finish up th ebrake lines and I can take it for a ride. 4 yearsin the build up I cant wait to drive it !

The spring work costed me $115 Cdn. That included 4 new bushings pressed in. The dearching was like $20 per side. I took them the spring pack in and told them to take 3" out of them. The said no problem.



No notch here.
I have around 3" between the frame and axel and the rubber bumper is about 2" from hitting the frame. The is a member Powell72 he has a 6" coil drop and has 2.5" between the frame and axel and he had no complaints. I personally would not feel good about riding around with a bolt in notch. I would rather smack the rubber bumper off the axel. Mabye this winter I might weld in a C notch but I would want to box the frame in from in front of front hanger to behind the rear hanger.

[69moneypit]

i took my truck to Deep South Springs to have my leaf springs dearched. They lowered the truck 4 inches around 2 years ago and i have not had a problem . The truck rides fine but I have not tried putting a serious load in the bed.

[Super Duck]

I just put a 75 rear end under my 67 and welded new spring mounts on the bottom of the housing. no kit req just a torch and a welder.

[72MARIO]

I think that Dearching the springs would show the load alot sooner than with the stock contour.