8.8 swap
Finally got last bracket off. I measured from center of pumpkin out to short side axle 21.50" thats exactly half of 43" for the center to center of the perches. I did this because this is the side thats not going to be shortened, and i'm trying to wrap my mind around this. My question is has anybody run into issues with the leaf springs hitting the caliper when running this axle without doing a spring relocation, or is there enough space there that spring compression isnt an issue.
I also cut the old brake hose tabs off the spring perches seeing if i can use these over, i measured roughly 7" in from the brake backing plate. That was rough center for the exploder perches. Was thinking it would be best to keep the flexible caliper line mounting close to stock location. I tried seeing if i could locate the mount tab against the axle tube. I plan on doing this with both sides of the axle and using 2 RH brake hoses. Bottom 2 pix are the left side with a RH hose.
Finally got last bracket off. I measured from center of pumpkin out to short side axle 21.50" thats exactly half of 43" for the center to center of the perches. I did this because this is the side thats not going to be shortened, and i'm trying to wrap my mind around this. My question is has anybody run into issues with the leaf springs hitting the caliper when running this axle without doing a spring relocation, or is there enough space there that spring compression isnt an issue.
I also cut the old brake hose tabs off the spring perches seeing if i can use these over, i measured roughly 7" in from the brake backing plate. That was rough center for the exploder perches. Was thinking it would be best to keep the flexible caliper line mounting close to stock location. I tried seeing if i could locate the mount tab against the axle tube. I plan on doing this with both sides of the axle and using 2 RH brake hoses. Bottom 2 pix are the left side with a RH hose.
