Flyer

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Who has some .. I think I need some small ones.

Seeing Red Again

Randy's Ring and Pinion has them and is who I order all my axle parts from. I've also had success using Napa before (if you have someone competent behind the counter). I'm not sure what board sponsers have them.

Got a bad pattern read?

Flyer

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Hrmm ... maybe I should have clarified a little.

I need the ones you shim the axle with when you use shackles to drop the rear.

Seeing Red Again

Ohh! Those little wedge looking things that sit between the axle and leaf spring.

I don't know where ya can get them alone unless any of the sping manufactures can supply them?

Do you think your drop shackles played a role in your drive shaft breakage?

02BlueStepside

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Pinion Shims

I think I saw some at Stylin Concepts. Like 20 bucks a piece maybe.

FILE

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How can you tell you need them?

parish8

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i dont have any but have wondered if they are needed. i decided to just raise the front hanger support and get the truck lower. that will get the rear back in factory alighnment. not sure if it was ideal from the factory though.

Flyer

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Absolutely positively sure .. they went on after I got the new d/s in.

Sounds like your dead on what I need now. I've been thinking about just adding some washers in there and clamping down on them but I don't know how bad that would be.

I think I need them cause the pinion is pointed slightly down. When I made the trans x-member, the driveshaft was absolutely straight to the axle. The U-joints had next to no bend in them. Now the rear joint has a little bend in it.

Parish, bad idea ... the front of that spring is actually a crucial rear allignment point. The distance between the front bushing on the spring and the nut in the that lines the axle is crucial to the rear allignment. That means that if one spring was mounted further up than the other in the front, it would throw that off. The factory tolerance for the distance between the front buching and the allignment nut is +/- 2mm. I would imagine it would be the same for those mounting points.

If those are out of whack, it will cause the thrust angle to be bad. If you've ever seen a car that looks like it's going down the road crocked, almost like sidestepping, that's what the affect would be.

parish8

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i am talking about some djm(i think) front hangers. you take off the factory and bolt these in place of them. it relocates the front spring mount by 2" just like the shackls did in the rear. you end up droping the entire spring assembly 2" instead of just the rear by 2". the angle stays the same as before.

Flyer

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Ahhh .. ok, gotcha.

What I was talking about could still be a problem though if those parts weren't identical from side to side.

As long as no one rides behind you and it looks like your truck is side stepping, it's fine though.