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Old 11-22-2022, 10:47 PM   #15
joedoh
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Re: Rear leaf spring swap issue

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Originally Posted by leegreen View Post

My assumption: Your monoleaf spring was sold with the pin the right place to line up a modern axle in the fender. Your new OEM drop multileafs are sold with the pin in the right place for the original rear end to line up at the correct length for a torque tube on a factory trans.
Putting your modern rear end centered under the axle hole on the factory location pin will put it too far forward. Shifting the axle back to the other hole might work.

i mean, this is everything I said just 6 posts later.

I went looking for the setback plate i remember seeing but didnt come up with anything, so its probably like mr48 and lee said, just drill a new hole in your perch to center the wheels.
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