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Old Dec 18, 2005 | 05:28 PM
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admitting defeat!

Posts of other posts about the flip.
Had a little time this afternoon and thought I would start rounding up the scattered parts for the I-beams.
Went to put the caliper bracket on (it needs to be mounted on the rear side as to get the bleeder on the top. by placing it on the front, that puts the calipers bleeder valve on the bottom.) and I would have to shave off some of the bracket.
This is the straw that broke the "horses" back.
The flip is possible, but is not easy. I knew it wouldn't be, but after having my truck sit for a year and still wondering how she will go down the road once I had gotten her completed; I'm giving in.
I will be building the brackets that god.boots has made though.
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Just out of curiosity, what happened to the two fellas that claimed this was so easy, fordman100 and dutch302??????

Robert P.
 
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Old Dec 18, 2005 | 07:46 PM
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can you swap the calipers from left and right to make it work? swap sides.
 
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or just flip the hub assembly. pull the king pin then rotate the hub 180 degrees now your brake system is the original way up.
 
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Old Dec 19, 2005 | 06:06 AM
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Originally Posted by I_Thnk_Ford
Just out of curiosity, what happened to the two fellas that claimed this was so easy, fordman100 and dutch302??????

Robert P.
Better advice is to do a complete swap, hard to make it go wrong.

John
 
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