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need help rear axle questions
man here in town has a 5 lug 12 bolt leaf rear axle for sale. he claims it come from a truck and i going to look at it. my 69 is leaf rear and i want to use it for my 5 lug swap. what are the differences from a 67-72 leaf rear and a 73 up? are they the same width from back plate to back plate? just dont want to buy something i cant use. thanks for any help
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Re: need help rear axle questions
I know that the leaf spacing is different between a 67-72 and a 73-?. other than that I think that the 73+ have a 10 bolt not a 12 bolt, that is easy to spot
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Re: need help rear axle questions
yea stuff like that. i can measure the distance on my axle between the leafs a check for a difference. i think i see a post were somebody said the leafs were different widths? anybody know??
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Re: need help rear axle questions
do the mods mentioned above and you'd have the more modern 10 bolt rear under your truck. don't worry about a wider track width as the front is always wider anyway on a stock setup. especially on a 4x4 with the front wheels that stick way out, a wider rear would make it look more balanced.
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Re: need help rear axle questions
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Re: need help rear axle questions
I didn't know that. Are they the same internals, axles,etc as the earlier ones?
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Re: need help rear axle questions
thanks for the responses guys. my truck is a 2wd if they was some confusion there. i have seen the replacement axles you can get from ECE but i can get this rear cheaper. does anybody know about the width of the springs?
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Re: need help rear axle questions
I know on the heavier trucks there was more than one width of leaf spring.
Look at the shock mounts, if staggared, then it was certianly out of a later truck. |
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Re: need help rear axle questions
Same as the 72, but as LHM said, the shock mounts are wrong and the spring perches are or might be different.
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