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| | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 49 Apprentice | | Apprentice Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 49 | I have a 1949 1/2 ton short bed. I just put a mustang IFS and want to lower the rear end. It all ready has 1 1/2 inch blocks under it now. The axle is above the springs. I have 7 leaf springs on each side. Can one take a few leaf out of spring and what else does one do. I would like to drop it about 4 inches
Mark | | | | | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,756 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 1,756 | You probably should consider Notching the frame in the rear for the Necessary clearance. This can be accomplished several ways. I am unfamiliar with doing this on leaf springs. Perhaps the frame will have to be Z'd to get the drop you want. I found good results using air bags. | | | | | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 311 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 311 | I got a 4" total drop from "factory stock" in the rear of my '49 1/2 ton with 3" lowered leaf springs and 1" +/- from the conversion kit (to open driveline). I did not need to notch the frame. To be honest though, the "lowered" leaf springs raised the rear end an inch from the old sagging spring. Gazim is right though if you are wanting something more extreme.
Always get a 2nd opinion, especially if I am the source of the 1st opinion.
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | agree that air bags would be best,, then you can have it where ever you want it...........
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: Mar 2005 Posts: 576 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 576 | i opted to change the springs , bought a kit from chassis engineering. new 2 1/2 wide springs upper and lower shock mounts new shocks lowered the rear almost 5 in. one of the only boltins so far that actually bolted in.nice kit, they also have a optional rear sway bar that works with this set up that i'm probly gonna do also
1949 Chevrolet 3100 "When this thing hits 88 miles an hour, you're going to see some serious sh%t." -Doc Brown
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