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Old 03-10-2009, 05:12 PM   #1
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S10 Swap Spindles

Looking at my 2wd frame, with the 4x4 rear, and the thought of using 2" spacers to get the width right in the front is something I'd rather not use, if I can get away with it.

I've been trying to research the "tall spindle swap" for the s10 front end.
Without getting into a ton of parts and pieces from various donors, the best that I've seen is using the spindles from a 'late' 90's s10 blazer for a 1 1/2" increase in width. Has anyone tried this and had any luck? I'd like to use as much of the current s10 2wd parts as possible (just rebuilt it all).

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Old 03-10-2009, 06:10 PM   #2
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Re: S10 Swap Spindles

I'm not sure if they will work. Even though the s10 and s10 blazer had a lot of similar parts I know that some things could not interchange. I didn't use any spacer or anything on mine. I liked how they were so far in from the fender because I could ride with it aired down and still be able to turn. That's just me though.
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Old 03-11-2009, 12:47 PM   #3
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Re: S10 Swap Spindles

Not finding alot of easy answers on this... doing alot of research and no one seems to make or sell simple tall spindles for an easy swap. I think it may be time to look at a hard mockup of a stock set of A-Arms and extend the template about 2-2 1/2" and just relocate the spindles to the correct location to get the track width right, without using spacers!

I've been fabbing stuff like this for years, but just looking for a simple swap of engineered parts before hand.

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Old 03-11-2009, 01:16 PM   #4
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Re: S10 Swap Spindles

Thadious check out Advanced Engineering, http://www.ad-engineering.com/HOMEPAGE.html, click on S10 interchanges. He has a good write up on what he used, I did the same thing, uses a Belltech drop spindle for a 98 Blazer and up. Machine the bore to fit early square-body S10
4WD hubs (less expensive no ABS). You gain bigger rotors and dual piston calipers.

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Old 03-11-2009, 02:05 PM   #5
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Re: S10 Swap Spindles

Yep, followed along this path once in the last couple of days... thing that I found is that if you follow the install link... they still ended up using 2 1/2" spacers, but with a bigger rotor...

Same problem, bigger discs... rofl.

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Old 03-11-2009, 03:55 PM   #6
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Re: S10 Swap Spindles

I don't like the idea of the spacers up front.
Back is ok as there is not as much weight on them.
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