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Old 08-13-2004, 08:49 AM   #1
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Lowering the rear..

I have my truck dropped 2.5/4 with western chassis stuff. I was a longbed fleetside heavy half (big 10 for you chevy guys ) Now its a short stepside. The rear end is waay to high, I'm thinking of going another inch or so in the front and was wondering what my options were for the rear. I really don't want to do the flip kit route. Would swapping to a set of leafs from a regular half ton net me any drop? My leafs have like 12 springs in them. I dont really wanna take some out as hitting the salvage yard and getting a stock 1/2 ton setup would be just as easy.


My leaf springs are like 5" longer than the ones on the shortbed I measured off of to get my demisions for the bed swap. Is this the same for all longbeds or just the difference between the regular half ton and big 10???

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Old 08-13-2004, 09:34 AM   #2
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Sounds like they have 56" long springs instead of 52", you could just as easily remove the some leaves from the spring pack also. Just take it down to like 4 leaves and the overload.
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got any pics of the before/during/after, on bed change
from LWB to SWB ?
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Old 08-14-2004, 07:16 AM   #4
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Quote:
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got any pics of the before/during/after, on bed change
from LWB to SWB ?

Ya, I have lots of pics and have plans to make a how-to for 73-87.com. But I need to get off my butt and get it done. I've been busy finishing up the engine rebuild and now trying to tune the sucker up. Once I get it running right I'm going to start on that. I took many pics during and after the swap. Most of my before pics are paper though and not in my computer.
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