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| | | | Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 346 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 346 | Richie,
I had a '56 Chevy pass car rear (57" wide as I recall) under my '49 at one time and I had to put wheel spacers (1" per side) to keep the tires from rubbing on the outside of the bed with any kind of a load. I was using the '56 pass car rims with this rear end.
I put a '69 pass 12-bolt under it after that (60.5" wide) and never had any problems with tires rubbing. I had 15x7 rims from an S-10 with 235-70 tires on it the last few years before I tore it down for the rebuild I'm currently doing. Even heavily loaded, the tires cleared everything alright.
I did mount the shocks inboard of the frame when I changed the rear end so I don't know if they're an issue or not.
'38 Chevy 1-1/2 ton
'49 Chevy 1/2 ton
'54 Chevy 6400 2 ton
'55.2 GMC 3/4 ton
'56 GMC 1-ton
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 132 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 132 | just so's ya know, the 2wd rears are about 4" narrower than the 4wd's
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