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Awesome work! Im going to start collecting parts tonight for my 76 D200. Ill be incorporating them into my existing airride suspension. Has anyone went low enough that they have had to pie cut the upper control arm and roll the upper ball joint for better angle?

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dont think thats necessary unless you were running huge rims/tires. only thing i did to my truck was cut 1.5 coils out the front and the strut rod mounts are only bout 5" off the ground. with proboably just bags you could lay these things out, deff no probs if you used bags and spindles. another possible issue is the pitman(?) arm on my truck is only about 1/2" away from strut rod now. the rear will reguire c-notch though i believe. still need to get tires/rims for mine though, and maybe try to go lower in the rear. bags in the future

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A picture of the suspension with a 96 dakota drop spindle and 2" lowering springs from Mid America Customs. We are going to relocate the outer tie rod end to the top of the spindle arm for better suspension geometry.

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My front crossmember is 3.5 inches off ground right now when the truck is deflated. When I add the 2" spindles it will be a huge help but I would really like to get all 3.5 inched out at once. It currently bottoms the pitman arm and idler arm onto the strut rod. and the upper balljoints are definatly hateing life that low.

Tell me if Im nuts here. Im thinking I can build a 2.5" Tall block to relocate the strut rod to the bottom of the control arm using longer bolts. And I can pie cut my upper control arms for better balljoint angle. hopefully with that and the dakota spindles I will be able to get it all the way onto ground. and stil run a 28" tall tire.

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Are you wanting to move the strutrods to clear the Idler arm. If so why not just moving the idler up instead and maybe flip the pitman arm if possible.

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