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Old 07-24-2007, 10:10 PM   #511
Ivan D.
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Re: How about some pictures of '73-'87 short beds

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Originally Posted by bigblock73 View Post
Ivan....don't you have lowered coils in your stepside???
My car is the one with the 2" lowering coils in the front, and the rear of course got a 1" lift, gotta have that redneck rake The truck is actually fairly level, and the coils are some weird ones as the whole thing sits higher than any other 2wd half-ton I've seen, yet they are sooo rusted out that I bet they have been in there longer than I have been around... now here's the weird thing - my truck is a normal half-ton, and not a "Big 10", and it originally came with a 250 six-line and a 3-spd stick - if now with the much heavier 350-350 combo the tired springs still manage to keep it so high, back in the days when new poor thing must have been riding on its upper bump-stops! Here's a fairly recent pic of it, and those are 32s in the front and 33s in the rear:



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