Re: How to Lower Your 1972-1993 Dodge Pickup
[Re: Kevin I]
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Re: How to Lower Your 1972-1993 Dodge Pickup
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I was looking at my '86 Ramcharger after I saw your pictures and my tie-rods are mounted above the steering arm like yours are. If you were to mount the tie rod from below you would have to use a tapered reamer to ream the steering arm to accept the tie rod. And that would probably make it too loose a fit to work. Perhaps you could adapt a tie rod with a larger diameter stud to do that. Did you cut the coil spring along with the LCA swap to create your problem? You may find that you will have to buy new springs to get it closer to stock and forgo the extreme drop. Thinking further outside the box, you could adapt a rack & pinion steering to the truck, solve one problem and create more headaches to deal with. Sorry I can't help more.
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Re: How to Lower Your 1972-1993 Dodge Pickup
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Re: How to Lower Your 1972-1993 Dodge Pickup
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Re: How to Lower Your 1972-1993 Dodge Pickup
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Hi there,
sorry for stirring this up again, but i have a question that is right at home in this thread:
I wonder whether steering arms of trucks or vans bolt up to a B-body or FMJ-body "tall" spindle.
According to Rockauto, a 74-76 Monaco (for example) shares the upper and lower ball joints with a D150 (K7025 lower, K778 upper). They also share the wheel bearings.
Magnum Force makes nice drop spindles for the B,F,M,J cars and it would be nice to be able to use that stuff with stock truck steering arms.
Thanks, Alex I don't think the Monaco is a b body I think it's a c body
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Re: How to Lower Your 1972-1993 Dodge Pickup
[Re: 72d100]
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I don't think the Monaco is a b body I think it's a c body '75-'78 ROYAL Monaco and GRAN Fury were C-bodies. Without the 'Royal' or 'Gran', they were indeed B-bodies. ROYAL Monaco = MONACO = As for the original question, I have no idea......
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Re: How to Lower Your 1972-1993 Dodge Pickup
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Hi there,
sorry for stirring this up again, but i have a question that is right at home in this thread:
I wonder whether steering arms of trucks or vans bolt up to a B-body or FMJ-body "tall" spindle.
According to Rockauto, a 74-76 Monaco (for example) shares the upper and lower ball joints with a D150 (K7025 lower, K778 upper). They also share the wheel bearings.
Magnum Force makes nice drop spindles for the B,F,M,J cars and it would be nice to be able to use that stuff with stock truck steering arms.
Thanks, Alex I don't think the Monaco is a b body I think it's a c body I almost knew i had made a mistake at some point... anybody know of c-body drop spindles?
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Re: How to Lower Your 1972-1993 Dodge Pickup
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Another question would be are there any differences between the stock B,C and truck spindles? Yes, There is a big difference. Only certain "C" body cars use the same rotor and bearings but the ball joints are different, like a 73 Fury, "B" body cars use a completely different ball joints, spindles, wheel bearings and rotor. Plus the steering arm from the truck will not bolt to the "B" spindle. That's a few things I found out.
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