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Old Aug 16, 2005 | 03:45 PM
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Nice one Jag.

Only problem I can see with that wouyld be that the spring rate would increase the lower you went. But sounds like it might be worth investigating. I guess you could use air bags but just mount them in such a way to push the truck down.
 
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Old Aug 16, 2005 | 09:59 PM
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Yea, it's called 50 sand bags in the bed!! Jag
60 bags under the hood gives about a 5 degree rake, perfect!
 
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Old Aug 16, 2005 | 10:05 PM
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My dad used the bags of sand to keep the rear wheels from spinning on our 54. It worked.
 
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Old Aug 17, 2005 | 01:24 PM
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I used sand bags to keep water from entering my garage during the heavy rains. LOL....
 
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sand bags are awesome too but what you really need is a 50 gal drum of cement.

seen a guy put a 396 into a buick skylark. his car would not move so he had to load the trunk with above said item
 
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his car would drag across road tar though
 
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