Scenario: Which frame to use?

[garyd1961]

Originally Posted by Doug's68SS

a couple of you made comment about leaf spring hauling more of a load then coil, I would rather have coils for a load. back in the mid 80's my brother-in-law ask me to get him a yard of sand and gravel to pour some concrete with. he had a small import truck, I was young and dumb at the time and jumped in my 68 LWB C10 and ran to town to get it. the fellow dumper a bucket of sand in my truck and it set it down good bit. he took off and returned with a scoop of gravel and dumped it in my truck. I almost $#!+ he jumped off the tractor and I ask what does that weigh and he said about 3000 lbs. I wish he would have told me first but I looked under the truck to see what it looked like and my bump stops still had about a 1/4" of clearance. drove it home at about 50MPH 7 miles and unloaded it as I was afraid it would damage something. all I am saying is I wouldn't try it with leaf springs. and I wouldn't do it again with coils.

I did the same thing with an old 68 Chevy and coil springs. A local farmer and friend of mine sent to get a load on his truck and he like to freaked out when I got back.