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06-19-2009, 10:45 PM
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Longbed GMC to Chev suspension?
I have a (obviously) longbed 65 GMC. Someone switched the rearend to a car rear, but maintained the leaf springs. I've located a 67-72 Chevy shortbed rear with the coil springs. If I get the trailing arms too, It'll fit, right? The GMC driveshaft hoop crossmember is pre-drilled for the coil-sprung rear trailing arms, but my only cencern is the length difference in short vs longbed. Are there different long/short bed trailing arms?
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06-19-2009, 11:08 PM
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Re: Longbed GMC to Chev suspension?
The length of the truck arms are the same for both long & short wheel bases.
The long bed frames have extra bed floor brackets that aren't used & an extra 8" that needs to be trimmed off the ends of the rails. The other 12" is removed from in front of the truck arm crossmember between the F/R cab mounts (the rear cab mounts are then relocated).
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