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Old 10-31-2009, 07:59 PM   #1
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Just wondering who has the best price for the rear leaf spring pocket kit. I looked thru a couple catalogs and that really seems high 260+- for a couple pieces of sheet metal and few shackle bars. I'm I being unreasonable
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Not a lot cheaper but a little. What is your time worth if you built it yourself? Terry
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Just wondering who has the best price for the rear leaf spring pocket kit. I looked thru a couple catalogs and that really seems high 260+- for a couple pieces of sheet metal and few shackle bars. I'm I being unreasonable
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I had a very detailed drawing sent to me via Chevy Talk that I'd be happy to send. I work with a machine shop and they built me the complete set. I did some horse trading fot for the labor. Everything came out great, but I have yet to install it. They did say that it would have cost me $200. There is a lot of work to build them if the shop is not set up with the proper jigs, etc.
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I got mine from performance online . They were running a special on ebay a month or so ago for $160 + $20 to ship.

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I'm just curious, has anyone tried to install the pocket kit with the body on the frame? Surely it's been done before, but what a tasks! I picked up an extra frame for this very reason - to install an updated suspension without losing the use of my '55 - then make the swap. I gotta say, I have no idea how a guy can cut all the original brackets etc off with the body on the frame; then have to weld the new parts on it? I'm mechanically inclined, but without a lift, that seems like a tough task.
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me too. got them off ebay. performance online. cheapest around. fit/ quality was great. there installed already.160ish $
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I'm just curious, has anyone tried to install the pocket kit with the body on the frame? Surely it's been done before, but what a tasks! I picked up an extra frame for this very reason - to install an updated suspension without losing the use of my '55 - then make the swap. I gotta say, I have no idea how a guy can cut all the original brackets etc off with the body on the frame; then have to weld the new parts on it? I'm mechanically inclined, but without a lift, that seems like a tough task.
I did it that way, not hard at all on a two post lift and a plasma cutter.
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some of you guys are just spoiled
i did it in my driveway with a floor jack, a pair of GOOD jack stands, a cutting torch, an arc welder, some rear shackle mounts from a MOPAR, and two rear axle mounts from Moroso. took me, buy myself, about 4 hours. from driving the car to driving the car.
I guess if it ain't pre-engineered and don't bolt on it ain't no good..........(just one of my pet peeves).
oh yeah, and that was 20 years ago.........before everything became credit card ready.
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