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| | | | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 95 Member | | Member Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 95 | hey i know not everyone is for modification, but my truck is goin to be somewhat of a rod and i would liek to know what way ther is to lower it.. i believe its slightly lower then stock right now but i dont remember how the PO did it.. its a 61, s i havnt really seen kits for lowering this year... any sugestions | | | | | Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 622 Member | | Member Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 622 |
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 95 Member | | Member Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 95 | well tahts awefully rude.. get me all excited then this is wat i come to see.. haha | | | | | Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,068 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,068 | I think you'll have to change out your front suspension for a 63 model year. That way you can use drop spindles and drop spring to achieve the amount of drop you want. I don't think anyone makes specialty parts for the torsion bar set-ups yet,
Scott | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,554 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 1,554 | You can always go to an M2 frontend,it worked for me.As for the rear,the cheapest way is to take some leaves out of the springs.Several other ways to go,this is what worked for me on my 55.Course this winter I will be installing new rear suspenson,new 5 leaf rear springs,new hangers ,perches,and shocks.Will also flip the rearend.A lot of these guys will tell you ,aw just leave it stock height.Its your truck,do it your way.They are all nice,stock or steetrodded. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | sounds like good suggestions, if that fails put a 1500 pound kitty in the back 
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 738 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 738 | mike -
i too have a '61, 2wd fleetside shortbed, and i just cranked my torsion bars down in the front. i think that overall i achieved about 2 inches or so in the front, it looks like a backyard rake job...but if i lowered the back too no one would be the wiser and i saved myself a couple hundred bucks! just an idea.
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