Bob bdfentr wrote:
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> The Caravan used coil springs on the front end and leaf on the rear. Also the
>only early Chevy PU trucks that had an enclosed drive shaft were 1/2 ton. The
>3/4 ton had an open shaft to go to a full floating rear end. Mr. Gingles is
>most likely putting more power to the rear end than a stock early model motor
>put out, if my guess is correct. Traction bars will limit rear end twist and
>should help out without giving excessive wheel hop. I do not know about the
>rest of your message and do not have
I'm running a 350 smallblock in the truck with a Turbo 350 trans. It's
just a mild smog era engine, maybe 225 hp if I'm lucky. It does put a
pile of twist in the Caravan leaf springs under acceleration, the
traction bars help a lot. There's no real wheel hop, either. Launches
quite well off the line.
Alan Gingles
1948 Chevy 1314
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