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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 12:43 PM
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Suspension-Lowering Kits

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I am looking for rear leaf drop springs and a coil drop set. Below are my trucks specs. Thanks.

1978
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300 enginge
2 wheel drive
 
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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 12:51 PM
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Coils will only give you 2" until you run into steering alignment issues (so they say).

I run the DJM Dream Beam setup front and rear.. 3" front drop, 4" rear drop. the kit uses the OEM springs, just different shackles and hangers in the rear.
 
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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by psquare7575
Coils will only give you 2" until you run into steering alignment issues (so they say).

I run the DJM Dream Beam setup front and rear.. 3" front drop, 4" rear drop. the kit uses the OEM springs, just different shackles and hangers in the rear.
Thanks for the reply. Where did you find the DJM Dream Beam kit?
 
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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 04:31 PM
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Hello and welcome to FTE!

AIM industries I believe has them. If you pick up a copy of truckin magazine it will have some vendors with what you are looking for.

Here are three link below with informaton that might help you.

WWW.aimindustries.com

WWW.chassistech.com

WWW.fatmanfab.com


I have a Fatman fabrication front ifs kit under my 79 and the rear will probly go with a irs from a lincoln Mark 8.

Pics are in my gallery.
 
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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 04:41 PM
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I got my stuff through Summit. I have a thread dedicated to the entire process I went through.
 
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