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Originally Posted by Jacques Reed
Hi David and Tony,
Are the spring perches at different heights? If they are, it solves a 20 year old mystery for me too. My dodgied up F15-A from a F15 had the rear spring perches bolted on and not riveted. As a newbie 20 years ago I didn't give it much thought and figured it was a wartime expediency. They could have, however, been replacements for the F15 spring perches to make it look like a F15-A. It would also account why they dropped the equalized down 6" on a bracket if they tried to use the shorter (33"?) handbrake cables originally on the F15 chassis.
Maybe 33" is the correct length after all?
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Good day All,
Solved my own 20 year old mystery! I found a photo of a F15 that I saved from a classified ad a long time ago. Zooming in, it is quite apparent the F15 spring perch is different to the F15-A spring perch and sits higher on the chassis. So, as David said, the F15 sits lower than the F15-A. Never knew that. Now I know why I had a bolted together F15-A suspension and why the equalizer was lowered 6".
I was so teed off with that truck that I threw a lot of it away including the short cables, otherwise they would have been yours Tony.
I am a bit wiser now and keep almost anything of potential value.
Cheers,