Front track too wide

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Originally Posted by lolife99

I'll be doing the same to my '69 swb. I have a set of McGaughy's drop spindles. I'll be using all my static drop stuff off of the blazer.

Your are thinking about spending alot of money ,... just to keep those 275/60's up front.
The track width of these trucks has always been wider up front. The look of a "wider track width" just gets magnified when you lower them. Actually the lower arms do push the spindle out when you use a drop spring. (arm is more horizontal instead of pointing down)
My old 17's I had on the blazer were 17x8's with a 5" backspace,... and they worked fine.

My reasoning for doing the larger tires is this...A panel truck is a huge beast of a truck. Even though its the same size as a burb, it looks larger because of the lack of windows. So in the rear I see that tire as the best looking and fitting. Now my plans are to do some real road trips in this thing so I would prefer to have the same size tire on all four corners.

Look at post number four in this thread. http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=285491 see tens truck looks very good with this set up. Basically what I want to run except not ralleys, just plain steel for me. When I put my steel wheel on a truck that went from drum to disks, even though I didnt have the tire mounted you could tell it was going to be rub city.

I think my best option is going to be a drop member. I just wish I could use springs instead of bags.