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Looks good Bruce. is that the truck arm kit from HTH? I don`t know what I`ll do for the rear suspension, leafs or 4 link? I guess I`ll have to wait and see what kind of money I have at the time.
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Originally Posted by 53f100owner
Looks good Bruce. is that the truck arm kit from HTH? I don`t know what I`ll do for the rear suspension, leafs or 4 link? I guess I`ll have to wait and see what kind of money I have at the time.
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Bruce, typically on the NASCAR style suspension with the truck arms the springs are mounted to the arms in front of the axle. Any particular reason why you chose to put them over the axle? I'm just curious.
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Axracer,
We wanted to go with air bags and felt that mounting them on top of the truck arms would move the arms inboard too much. Then we thought we might mount them on the inboard side of the arms, but, we decided that this might put some rotation into the arms and/or complicate the arm/airbag/rearend mounting plate. As it turns out we got the arms mounted outboard more and the airbag mounting bracket to rearend was pretty simple.
We wanted to go with air bags and felt that mounting them on top of the truck arms would move the arms inboard too much. Then we thought we might mount them on the inboard side of the arms, but, we decided that this might put some rotation into the arms and/or complicate the arm/airbag/rearend mounting plate. As it turns out we got the arms mounted outboard more and the airbag mounting bracket to rearend was pretty simple.
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