Hello Thom,

I want to let you know that You have been dearly missed around here and it's good to see you post again.

Great job on your web site and also "happy anniversary" on it.

We've sent dozens of people there in the last year, only to come back here and commented how impressed they were of it.



Dennis

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Stockman,
Thanks for the earlier post on the finepoints of searching the archives. Also for digging out this info by Don Grossman.


>just focus
>on the F-250 and F-350.
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>1967 came along and the cab and frame design began to match the light duty trucks but F-250's and up were still considered Heavy duty work trucks. The front leaves maintained a high leaf count (8-9) leafs and had a positive arch. Give or take a few design changes over the years this continued until 1970's when fuel and mileage standards began to really put hurt on the manufacturers of big trucks. The other factor was more every day people were buying the stronger trucks. So in order to make the ride better and save a few arrow dynamic points the front end was changed again. The number of leaves in the front springs was reduced for a softer ride and maintained a negative arch (meaning they bend up in the middle instead of up at the ends). This forced the front end down for better airflow and put the truck at about the same ride height as the 2 wheel drive trucks ( the end of the Hi-boy, High Boy, Highboy, High-boy, what ever you want to call it).
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>Don Grossman

An earlier post states that this pivotal year for the F250 4WD going from it's High Boy stance to a lower stance was in 1977 with both configurations occuring that year for the F250 4WD.

I see you own one of the 1977 F250 4WDs with the higher stance. I am wondering how smooth a ride you get with it on rough roads compared to the redesigned lower stance that came out in 1977?

I am also wondering if you have any info on how difficult it would be to change my 1972 F250 2WD into the 4WD?

Thanks.
Joe