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Old 01-14-2010, 12:32 PM   #40
wildwood
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Re: Ready to go 1 Ton/K5

I'm doing almost the same thing right now. I got a 60 / 14 from an 84 Chev 1ton. Luckily I didn't have to drive that far. Actually the guy breought them to my house. $1200 for the combo 456 gears. Wasn't a bad deal. Probably normal I guess. It's going under my 71 Blazer.

I'm keeping the 4.5" lift blocks on the back with add-a-leaf springs. 6" springs on the front. That setup was working well on my other truck with 44 / 12. 2" body lift, cut fenders, 38" tires. I already have all this stuff from my other truck (which I smashed into a tree).

Gotta do the body work first tho.

What's a drive line e-brake? I'm doing a disk conversion also on the 14. I was thinking of using the caddy calipers as suggested for e-brake, but I also would rather not have the extra cables down there.

What are you doing for steering correction? I was using a 4" drop pitman. I found that I couldn't turn all the way to the stops tho, so I'm thinking of adding a steering arm block as well.
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