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Originally Posted by Keith Seymore
There is also a fundamental design characteristic that causes the K/V trucks to go to the right during braking: the fore/aft steering drag link is trying to be compressed by the front axle windup. Since it can't be compressed it physically inputs a RH turn into the knuckle or, conversely, can also roll the steering wheel to the left. This is common on Blazers (shorter wheelbase makes them less stable and makes the phenomenon more obvious) and with 2 leaf front springs. Adding 3 leaf front springs (or a traction bar) to minimize axle windup helps the situation.
If you exhaust all of your brake options I would look at that next.
K
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I've never heard of this before. I've owned a couple of K trucks and never experienced it, or maybe just don't recall it. It seems you would have to be on the brakes pretty hard to get that movement, it doesn't seem possible under just normal braking unless the leaf springs were just that soft. I would think that lifting the truck would enhance that action though.
Randy