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**Ironangel** · 03-25-2020, 05:58 AM

I dropped the 427 in yesterday only to find out those Moog 81114 springs are worthless. Truck bottomed out to the stops! Going back to factory BB coils with a half coil cut off. Any recommendations? I installed a new pair of HD single action gas charged Monroe shocks with the hopes that those springs would unload and stay up with the help from the shocks...Bummer, I don't know how anybody could run that spring full length and not coil bind it let alone getting it in! Sucks!

03-25-2020, 05:58 AM	#16
Ironangel Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Falls City, Nebraska "100 Miles From Nowhere" Posts: 2,219	Re: Anybody build a 427 with a 454 block & 396 crank? I dropped the 427 in yesterday only to find out those Moog 81114 springs are worthless. Truck bottomed out to the stops! Going back to factory BB coils with a half coil cut off. Any recommendations? I installed a new pair of HD single action gas charged Monroe shocks with the hopes that those springs would unload and stay up with the help from the shocks...Bummer, I don't know how anybody could run that spring full length and not coil bind it let alone getting it in! Sucks! Attached Images __________________ Michael of the clan Hill, "Two Seventy Two's" 71 1-ton Dually 350 4-Speed 71 C/50 Grain Truck, 350 Split-Axle 4-Speed 02 3/4 ton Express 14 Indian Chief Vintage 1952 Ford 8N, "Only Ford Allowed On The Property" "Be American, Buy American"