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Old Dec 12, 2005 | 08:52 PM
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D60 help please

Hi guys, I have searched for quite a while on this subject and I can only find a thread where one member talks about Proeliator putting a newer model D60 in a 79 or older truck with leaf springs but I can not find the post where he talks about doing this swap. Can anyone help? Also what about putting the newer D60 into a 79 or older coil spring 1/2 ton, can this be done without too much custom fab work? Thanks, Dave
 
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Old Dec 12, 2005 | 08:55 PM
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look in his gallery, you have to outboard the spring hangers to accomidate the 36.5 perch width versus the 32.5 on the earlier trucks.

the later 60's have a smaller tube on the drivers side between the diff and c...this leaves little room for the c wedge to fit the radius arms to under a f-150
 
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Old Dec 12, 2005 | 09:01 PM
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KO summed up about the wider perches and shorter driverside tube. The upside is you get the beefier non-neckdown inners. There isn't any way around the custom fab work though.
 
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