couldnt wait.....

[1969k10stepside]

Originally Posted by va_tlc

dustin measuring from the shop floor to the bottom of the rear bumber it is 36 inches front is 34 inches, as far as the spring perches i bought new ones from summit they were steel, the ones from the eaton was cast. and the summits are deffinitly taller, man these tires ride alot better than the sport kings i had bought first....

The front of yours sits higher than my truck! Mine is about 32 from the top of mine to the floor on the front..then again,yours will probably sag down some in time..

[RANDY COX]

Sweet fancy moses,wow what a difference,Look's GREAT MAN.Can't wait to see it in person.I'm probably gonna cruise down to salem tomorrow.

[1969k10stepside]

Do you think you could post a pic of the front springs when you get a chance? I need to see the arch of them so I can see if the look like mine.Now my lift kit is bugging me crazy! I think they(same company you bought yours from) sent me the wrong front springs...

[va_tlc]

gonna take my rear blocks back out in the a.m and my brothers gonna takem to his work and cut em down 1 inch, i belive that will be the easiest way.

[va_tlc]

ok dustin ill get out there and get you a pic , im gonna pull the blocksout today and hopefully get em back in heis evening, i thought the same thing on my springs when i got em i layed them down and they didnt have much arch at all, but compared to the original ones which was de-arched, had me thinking i had the wrong ones too,ohh and ill get ya the measurements too thanks alot randy im sure i wont make it this weekend to freddies but soon i hope too, sounds like fun,

[va_tlc]

utt ohh dustins gonna kill me... you know to never ask a guy to read a tape measure rite? they always lie... well i wasnt doing it on purpose but i told ya wrong yeaterday, i measured just now from bottom of ffront frame horn to cement it was 23 inchs... bottom of furthermost back frame was 29.5 inches. sorry i gave ya the wrong measurments , and heres a pic of the springs..

[Bishops Trucks]

That looks real good. Now your giving me ideas.

[1969k10stepside]

No problem,that makes me feel better that you remeasured..compared to yours mine is sitting aproximatly 4 inches higher in the back,and 3 inches in the front higher
Those springs look like mine,pretty flat..

[va_tlc]

well i cut my rear blocks down 1 inch and a quarter today..now im happy it finally sits level. man that was bugging the doo doo outa me. fer some reason i jsut dont likem sittin anythng but straight level, i know yall probally couldnt see by the pics but it look like i had air shocks on the back. so i think i can leave the lift alone now... but its sad to pay 100 bucks per inch for a lift onlyto cut a inch away lol ohh well, my friends coming out sunday and i wanna get some pics of his blazer he just finished its pretty bad .... same color as my truck but alot more lift and way big tires

[vtblazer]

va tlc, your truck looks perfet IMO.

Let the springs settle before making the final decision to change anything.

Makes me wanna finish up my swb 4x4.

[Mudder]

Looks great!!!!!!!! The springs will settle a little as you drive it for a month or so. Go through some ditches at a 45 degree angle from both directions. (Slowly )

[va_tlc]

lol @ slowly... so your saying DO NOT let the wife drive rite? thanks guys for the info... i hope it doesnt settle much or my front tires may rub in a bind... iv been going over my dang oil leakes now, most of the transfer case bolts were loose as were the oil pan and the rear main is leaking pretty bad. do ya have to pull the motor to replace the rear main? i was think over winter about pulling it anyways to detail the motor and firewall and just clean things up some, but was really hoping to find a stock big block to replace this motor,

[DirtyLarry]

Looks good VA TLC! I can’t stand the rear end sitting higher than the front either. After installing my ORD shackle flip and installing a new set of Superlift 6” springs my rear end was poking up in the air too high as well. Mainly, because I had the rear springs reworked years ago to level out my 4” lift with only using a small 1” lift block instead of a 4” block. I ended up removing one spring from each leaf pack to level it out.

Where is the front sway bar? Didn’t ‘72’s come with them? That truck has to lean like the tower of pisa into the curves. Mine did on the initial test drive with the sway bar disconnected after the 6” spring install and while the ORD sway bar disconnects were on order. I know not all 2wd’s had sway bars but I though the 4x4’s did. I think I also saw a picture of your truck with the tires off somewhere…..front drum brakes right? That isn’t the norm for a ’72 either.

[1969k10stepside]

Nope,the 4wds didnt have the swaybars...Im gonna use one from a mid 70s 4wd though..And Im gonna jump in and say the chassis is from a 70 (70's had a open knuckle drum brake front axle)(I think thats what he said,chassis is a shortened 70 K20?).I'd be adding discs though,not that hard if its an open knuckle axle.

[va_tlc]

yup.. thanks dustin thats a 69 or 70 frame, i hear ya larry on sitting level too, just makes em look better imo, dustin is the thing that the ball joints go in called a spindle on a 4wd? im pretty sure thats what its called on a 2wd, but im thinkin mine may be bent , i know my tie rod has took a bad whack and im thinking it got the ( spindle) too, wonder how i can tell which one i have so i could find another,

[OLDCHEV4X4]

the thing that the ball joints go into is called the knuckle. Disc brake and drum brake knuckle's are different. 2wd wouln't work.
Good lookin truck!

[va_tlc]

ok thanks oldchev... pretty sure mines bent plus the tie rod is fer sure bent and iv alreay had the front end ailgment done. so i guess after i put this stuff on its back to the ailgmment shop again.. thanks for the compliment there oldchev

[earl87gta]

va_tlc PM on its way to you.

[Wreckless_71]

I'm working on the full resto on a '71 chev 4x4 with a 4 inch lift and 33x12.5's. I just want to say that yours looks awesome and inspires me to work on it! The pic is my computer desktop! I can't wait to get her finished!

[msgross]

That is one nice truck , my daughter (5) even says it's "pretty" Do you have any before and after pics? Your pics are making me wish I would have gone with a lift....

[va_tlc]

thanks reckless , this forum is the reason i wanted another truck so bad and my brother had bought this truck as a 2wd and he decided to sell it so i made a deal id take it if we could find a 4 wd frame and switch it over, hes done a few like this so it wasnt alot of trouble, mike i hear ya about the lift, at first i didnt want a lift, i kinda like em stock, but after it wasnt sittin level after we put new perches on the rear , and then seein my friends i work with blazer all jacked up, plus my tires was so close to rubbin those tires were 32x10.50x16... almost hit the fenders , i just went ahead with the 4 ich, ill post a couple pics of the truck while we was working on it, i belive he may have a couple of when he first got it on a reg camera, he didnt have a digi, thanks guys

[va_tlc]

[va_tlc]

[va_tlc]

inside pic.. iv since put carpet in to try and quiet the inside some... didnt work lol