Suspension and Drivetrain Modifications

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The owner details the truck's suspension and drivetrain components. The rear suspension features stock leaf springs with a flip kit and BA Traction bars, which he praises for their effectiveness. The front end initially had stock torsion keys flipped upside down for lowering. He notes the rear shocks are still the original ones with over 300,000 miles, and the 10-bolt rear end also has a high mileage, jokingly mentioning he doesn't check its fluid as it still works without issues. He also discusses recently welding the front differential, a modification that improved performance but made steering difficult. Custom-milled full tie rod sleeves and jam nuts from Cunningham Machine were installed to address torque steer and significantly improved front-end handling. He also briefly mentions CD spacers as an attempt to prevent axles from pulling out during hard braking, which had happened twice previously.

Goal: Describe the current suspension and drivetrain setup

Tools and materials

10-Bolt Rear End General Motors — Rear axle assembly, original high-mileage unit
BA Traction Bars — Preventing wheel hop and improving traction
CD Spacers — Preventing axles from pulling out during hard braking
Flip Kit — Lowering the rear suspension
Rear Shocks General Motors — Damping rear suspension, original high-mileage units
Stock Leaf Springs General Motors — Rear suspension component
Stock Torsion Keys General Motors — Front suspension component, flipped for lowering

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know you're living it yes what do you have suspension wise against traction bars there's a big green front end wise I just literally took the stock motion he's out looking over upside down and there they are I definitely need to do something in the shock Department the shots on the back are the original three hundred and something thousand wild stock shots that we relocated and stuffed them in there and four years later nitrous boosted launches you name it they're still there same with the 10 volt let's back there that thing has a million miles on it never took the rear cover off it may or may not have fluid in it I don't question it that you've never checked that rear end since day one of you owning this truck so it's probably the same flu that your grandpa never checked I sort of just always trying something and we recently welded the front up in the truck so these things come factory with an open front diff and on and I never had any issues with it I just was curious if I could get more bang for my buck out of the front deep front end on it and I have 300 people in 9,000 comments tell me how is gonna blow it up I'm gonna blow it up it'll crack the case it'll never work and I've just consistently gone faster and faster and faster since I've done it I'm not so sure it's something I would recommend to somebody but it's worked for me the cable thing is it works out so but when it's locked it's like I have no power steering there's you don't turn with it so if you want to do anything other than go fast in a straight line don't recommend if that's your goal let's try it out and how fast have you been on the nitrous setup and then with the current configuration okay so with the nitrous setup that was a 6-litre a pretty big bigger cam and had a 4l60 at the time and we put 150 shot on a plate kid that went seven 35 at 92 pretty much the first night out and ran that number over and over and over every time I grabbed kid very much the very beginning of this thing so that was a lot of fun and I did the turbo deal like a little over a year ago and it took me almost a complete year to match that number but since then I matched that number I swapped a few things out with that new turbo wine and since picked up for about five more tenants so I'm running six 90s now at eighteen nones leaving pretty soft or one five sixty foot we're aiming for low one 40s try to ease it up there in the 20 24 pound range you still haven't used the trans brake yet I know I have not used it…

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