MY 1974 GMC HALF TON

[1967KaiserM715]

Junkyard...but would be better to get new as the rest won't be far behind in failure

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[Captain Swampy]

If your not going to haul stuff, remove the matching one from the other side.  Best fix is a new pair of springs or air ride.

[ROARING 455]

Would be great to just buy brand new leafs for both sides but it's so dang expensive. But I think I found somewhere that'll have just the one that I need. But I plan to buy air shocks for the rear the type you manually air up and the heaviest thing I plan to haul would maybe be a 6 foot trailer with shingles. Do yall think I should still replace the leaf or will I be OK without it? Thanks for the help guys.

[1967KaiserM715]

I'm going to stand behind what I said, other leaves wont be far behind. you could run them for a bit if your really tight on money, but $300 should be able to get you all the springs and hardware needed to install.-this cost depends on if you have 3/1 or 4/1 springs

[ROARING 455]

Ok so I've looked around town and found that I can get the whole leaf assembly for 50 bucks from the yard. I've look for a whole new assembly but the truck accessories shop sells them with a 2 inches lift only. So I'm going to go ahead and buy the one from the yard this weekend cause I really don't want my pickup to sit any higher than what it already was. Hopefully I'll have more luck with the other assembly.

[ROARING 455]

Got some goodies for the truck. I still haven't been able to get the leaf springs but hopefully I will soon. Anyways tie rods, sleeves and shocks got a shot of paint and everything is bolted on and ready for alignment.


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[ROARING 455]

Out with the old and in with the new!
I also bought new calipers, rotors, and brakes. Hit that with some paint and took care of the backing plate springs and knuckles with some paint also.

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[ROARING 455]

I also replaced the bushings with energy suspension products and replaced the upper and lower ball joints with moog. I'm not cutting any corners with this one and I'm almost done with the front suspension I'm just waiting on some more stuff and my elco is getting a face lift by yours truly so it may be a little b4 I post more pics. forgot to add that I've also replaced the bumper stops also. I'm trying to find the rear bumper stops in energy suspension but no luck. If anyone has a part # for some I'd appreciate it a ton!

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[hotrod24]

Looking great man. I love 73-74 chevy trucks. I am building a custom 80 c10 with a 73-74 front clip conversion...

[79 Royal Sierra]

Keep up the good work man. Looks good and will ride like a champ with the Moog parts.

[74 C-10 Shorty]

Coming along great, keep up the good work..

[blazer74]

Looks Great!

[ROARING 455]

Thanks for all the support and good words fellas! I love doing this kinda stuff, I've also started a 64 4 door impala build but I had to stop cause she was putting a BIG hole in my pocket and had nothing to hop into and cruise so I started working on something that isn't going to take much mods. Once done with my pickup it's back to the impala. Anyways thanks again fellas, should be about another week b4 I can really get back to it, elco is almost done so with that being said I'll be able to do some serious work to the truck hopefully old man winter won't be to brutal in texas this year.

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