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Old Jun 15, 2008 | 07:10 PM
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Who has done this? i was looking around daze's site and it seems pretty cool and not too complicated. I will install the new suspension soon so i am thinking about doing it. thoughts?

Old Jun 15, 2008 | 07:20 PM
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I did it on my 67. I love it.

I replaced my shocks while I was at it. It increased my handling, lowered my car, and made the ride better. Only took us about 3 hours. Just use the correct spring compressor.
Old Jun 15, 2008 | 08:10 PM
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it is the biggest improvement you can do to your car for the $$ cant beat FREE ore nearly free and the improvement is major!!!
Old Jun 15, 2008 | 08:33 PM
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Daze is right. It is the best thing I have done to my car yet. You would like this if you do it.
Old Jun 15, 2008 | 09:44 PM
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im actually doing the drop for my 68 it is easy. just got to have a good pair of spring compressor and your set.
im just waiting on mine because i wanna make sure im getting it done correct
Old Jun 15, 2008 | 09:51 PM
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I ***'d mine up! I dont know how, but somehow I did. I even have the correct steel template. It's just alittle bit off, I guess when I made the punch mark in the little hole, I should have been been centered better or something...I thought I was.

I went back to stock location...
Old Jun 15, 2008 | 10:00 PM
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hey baddog, what actually happened? could you not get it aligned properly? you musta been a long way out to stuff it up.

I just did mine a couple of months ago. Wish'd i'd done it years ago
Old Jun 15, 2008 | 10:02 PM
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. just got to have a good pair of spring compressor and your set.
We actually did mine 1 side at a time. They only had 1 spring compressor. We rented ours at Autozone. It had a fork bottom and then it had the claws at the top. It worked great.
Old Jun 15, 2008 | 10:06 PM
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. just got to have a good pair of spring compressor and your set.
We actually did mine 1 side at a time. They only had 1 spring compressor. We rented ours at Autozone. It had a fork bottom and then it had the claws at the top. It worked great.
1++++ lol i actually got mine there too and they worked great
Old Jun 15, 2008 | 10:40 PM
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hey baddog, what actually happened? could you not get it aligned properly? you musta been a long way out to stuff it up.

I just did mine a couple of months ago. Wish'd i'd done it years ago
Kinda hard to explain over the internet when Im not to sure what happend myself. On the passenger side I could get 1 bolt in the drilled hole (the hole towards the cabin), but couldnt get the other bolt to go in the other new hole. It was just like 1/16th inch off if i remember right. Driver side was fine...

I was actually using one of the original prototype templates from opentrackerracingproducts before he started selling them, so I know it was right. A buddy used the same template before me and went fine for him...



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