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Front coil over conversion f350 who is doing it?

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Old 09-26-2018, 02:04 PM
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Front coil over conversion f350 who is doing it?

Dont even know what to type in search. exactly.
coil over conversion? gets me a lot of superduty swaps.

what i'm keen to know is ... with the gen 2 dana 60, is there an active group installing three link with coil over kings or foxes?

this would remedy the bugaboo of the left hand short axle space problem.

Carrick had a "kit" for this at one time.
Cage did too, but it seems that Carrick is not active, and Cage is gone.

what are other options?

thanks all.

 
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I’m not sure what’s out there for swapping leaf springs for coil springs on a axle deigned for leafs but if you look up “05+ superduty axle swap into an obs” you will find a lot of guys including me that have taken the newer coil sprung axles and put them into the older trucks.
 
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Old 09-26-2018, 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by ifrythings
I’m not sure what’s out there for swapping leaf springs for coil springs on a axle deigned for leafs but if you look up “05+ superduty axle swap into an obs” you will find a lot of guys including me that have taken the newer coil sprung axles and put them into the older trucks.
well yes . what u just told me is my reference in post about super duty swap.
my interest is in custom 3 link with kings and eliminating the leaf spring altogether, on the old king pin axles.
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The only place I've seen discussion of that, is over on expedition portal. A guy has his ccsb f250 on a d60 with coil overs. I'll post a link if I find the thread again.
 
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thx.
it's the guy following the races an shoots pics?
I'm hip to that.
I could work up my own, but parts or pathways of others is always helpful.

 
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Different guy. This is what I was thinking of. Might be fully custom, I haven't read it all.
https://expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/obs-f250-slow-adventure-build.125420/page-1
 
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ok reading up...thx

evidently this is not a common thing. if it were, i would have been flooded with responses and links to so and so who sells....blah blah.
 
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Skyjacker used to make a "Z link" kit to convert leaf springs to coil overs. That would be a huge step in the right direction
 
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showing the Z. link as 99 and up.

reviews are in , most good.
it ses it's a full kit front, rear .

I wonder if there is a market for a conversion for these old dogs...... naaah we who run these old clunkers are far too cheap for a fancy kit....0
 
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