Coils and leafs
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Coils and leafs
i got a 79 ford and im lifting it about 12 inches, so i can run my 44s. i dont want any blocks, i have already flipped my rear shackle, and lowered my front rear hanger, and droped my front coil bucket, i think im going to get around 9 inch coil springs, but i dont know what to do about the leafs, i dont want taco shaped ones or block so what should i do thanks. where could i shop around at? thanks
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best thing you can do is get some cheby 63's for whatever lift and build new drop down hangers and build your own spring perches that are a little taller then stock. that combo will still ride nice and flex but still get the desired lift.
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^^ that's better. Hope he checks your thread in the tech section! Some back yard mechanic did an awesome job putting that one in.....
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I don't know about "awesome", but it's alriht I guess. Still need to pull it and fix the c wedges :flipoff2:
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hey paul, i did have a quick question, could you place you c wedges to where it helps you on the radius arm not be at suck an angle? how do you find your desired angle on the c wedges? and does anyone have some picture of some custom hangers?
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I'm not trying to be an *******, but I have no idea what you're asking me lol.
You can place the wedges at any angle you want, but you want around 6*?? caster I want to say; this will help your steering will pull back to center after turning. If you see in the write up I did, our back yard engineering was to stack up some wood under the radius arm until it looked right and then weld it there :cheeto: Honestly not the best way to go about it if you're going to be driving it a whole lot, but we got it close to right. I haven't measured the actual caster angle, but it tracks pretty well down the road and the steering is decent enough for what it is.
You can place the wedges at any angle you want, but you want around 6*?? caster I want to say; this will help your steering will pull back to center after turning. If you see in the write up I did, our back yard engineering was to stack up some wood under the radius arm until it looked right and then weld it there :cheeto: Honestly not the best way to go about it if you're going to be driving it a whole lot, but we got it close to right. I haven't measured the actual caster angle, but it tracks pretty well down the road and the steering is decent enough for what it is.
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sorry, about the confusion. but could your rotate the axle upward, but keep them running parralle with the ground. so when you go to hook you radius arms, there not under alot of pressure and everything will be better? make sense. like cutting off perches in the rear rotatin the axle up to lessen the pinion angle. but just with c wedges? sorry aboutthe confusion
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Yes, you can put your c wedges on at any angle you want, but like I said before no matter where your radius arms go to you're going to want a certain caster angle so that the trucks tracks and steers right. Do some research to find the correct angle, or maybe someone on here knows off hand. You have to take into consideration where your radius arm mounts on the frame are as well as which degree c bushings you run (this is where you can have some fudge room for making mistakes, as they make a few different degree bushings to rotate the axle to make up for lifting without adjusting the drop brackets in stock applications).
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