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Originally Posted by michael bustamante
check your rear axle width, you might have the longer rear end. if you do you can swap axles instead of the whole rear end. (cheaper) But if you have leaf rear end you can use any rear end out a 73 and up truck I believe. as for the front end, you HAVE to change out your front brakes lines as wellas the prop valve. the threads are different
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Way, way, way back in the early days of this forum, knowledge was passed around on how to swap 1970s to 5 lug by just swapping out the axels in your half ton. You needed to know if you had the wider or narrower rear in your 1970 as that was a transition year.
I never paid attention because I have a 4x4. Perhaps one of the 'old timers' on this board that have done this will chime in.
FWIW, I know a crazy old guy that has two eights lugs on the rear, a six lug on one side of the front and a 5 lug on the other side of the front. And you think my truck is a mutt.
