00pooterSS

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Hey guys, I did a little looking around and couldn't find an answer to why my 2WD has torsion bars and a steering gear box front end instead of coil springs and a rack and pinion set up.

The truck is a 2004 GMC Sierra SLT 2WD.

I figured out that my truck was odd when I noticed that every lowering kit I looked at for it is made for a truck with coil springs.

Anyone know why my truck is setup this way?

1989k1500

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Is it a VHO truck?

SLCviaAK

They make lowering kits for your truck. Any kit that will work on a 4wd, will work on yours

1FSTMAX

Does your truck have a midget bed?

00pooterSS

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Nope, just a 5.3

I figured that was what I would need to do, and that's fine, but really i'm just more curious as to why it has the torsion bars in the first place.

Standard bed, 6ft.

outlawz2004

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They tried it out a couple years on the 2wd trucks.

texasglock23

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there was a year or two where GM made some frankenstein trucks

TXSZ66AVLANCHE

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Vho= 5.3 l33

00pooterSS

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Gotcha, thanks, still learning some of the truck specifics



EDIT: I just google searched VHO and a bunch of pictures of trucks came up that look just like mine (mainly the wheels is what I mean by that, rare to have 20's back then and I have always wondered about those wheels)

00pooterSS

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I said no at first but now I am starting to wonder. I assumed those were the trucks with the VMAX emblem and I also thought they had 6.0's.

Again, I am still learning special-model specifics on the trucks.