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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Cheshire, CT
Posts: 39
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CPP Drop Spindles: Conflicting Information
Hi All,
New to the forums and to these trucks. Picked up a '70 C10 SWB last fall. Has a 350/350 combo with a leaf spring rear. Been lurking on the forum since I bought the truck. A great deal of information here! The day I bought it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Done a bit of work to it over the winter. Cleaned up the engine bay, all new brake hoses, rebuilt the drum brakes, new transmission pan gasket and filter, 3-point seatbelts, cleaned up the gauge cluster, new exhaust, new wheels and tires, etc... What it looks like right now. ![]() ![]() ![]() Anyways, I've decided to convert to disc brakes to make it a little safer to drive around town. The wheels are 6-bolt slot mags with 3.25" backspace with drum brakes on all four corners. Being that I like the location of the wheels in the wheel wells now, I had pretty much decided on the CPP OE Drop Spindle Kit with 6-lug rotors PN: 6370SWBK-6OE. They advertise that this only changes the front track width by 1/16" from the drum setup which is fine by me. Here's the issue. From reading on the forum I know that these are a relatively new design (within the past few years). I contacted their customer support to confirm that the track width would not be changed significantly from the drum setup and here is the reply I got... 6370SWBK-6OE “This drops you 2.5 inches and moves your tires out ¾ an inch each side” 6370SWBK6OES “Stock height, same ¾ inch” 6370SWBK-6 “This is the one you want I think. Drops you 2 inches and Moves your tire in ¼ inch, so just a hair less then stock width” 799.00 This kit does not come stock height, I went back and forth with their customer support over email but they could not explain the discrepancy between their own catalog, wheel offset chart (http://www.classicperform.com/Instru...fset_Chart.pdf) and what they wrote in the email. Here's my question: Has anyone ordered this kit (6370SWBK-6OE) and determined what the track width change was from drums? Is the customer service rep just not up-to-date on the products? Any vendors on here that could confirm I would receive the new "smooth" casting spindles? I'm not keen on spending the extra for the "modular" spindles since I'll be staying with stock-size brakes. Thanks for all your help! -Gen |
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