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Old 06-28-2016, 08:16 PM   #12
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Re: 1968 Suburban K20 Past & Present build

The suspension is the original, all four corners of spring packs were re arched. The front spring packs have an additional leaf added to give it an approximate 2" lift.

The original front spring packs were of the negative arch type, which made the truck ride pretty stiff in the rough roads. Once the positive arch was put in with an additional leaf, the truck raised up a bit and gave it more travel on the rough roads. The shocks are just generic off road rated shocks, since I had planned to paint them black I didn't want to spend a lot of money on them being high end models. Really, there isn't much to dampen so a plain HD style shock absorber is fine.
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