3500 leaf spring question

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After a quick Google search looking for P30 specs, I realized I should not call them cube vans. Might be confusing since the box trucks with a van cab were called Hi-Cube. So Step Van it is from now on. Still looking for specs. Although I did find out that '93 is when they switched to the new nose that resembled the early Astro van.
 

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RPO 3E33 Aluminum Step Van Body tells all.
 

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A few specs for a '76:

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Does anyone think an 86 G30 van may have a possibility of interchange? I found 2 in a local scrap yard.
 

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Somehow this shouldn't be so hard to figure out.

In your first post you were asking about a G35 cube van, but then later on someone called it a P series van. Doesn't it have a vin plate or sticker anywhere in the van? A P van may have springs similar to a square body (at least they are 52" long), but a G van is apparently much different. If you don't know exactly what you have/want its hard to do a parts cross reference.

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The original picture of the springs that are bad shows a P chassis, due to there being frame rails. A G-van is unibody, even the cutaway models.

There were so many models and variations over the years, busting out a tape measure would be far easier than trying to research what springs this thing may have.
 

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