Body lift swap

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that picture of your front core support mount and the one of the front cab mount is exactly how the back cab mounts have to be those steel cups with a rubber bushing inside or polyurethane ones.

I had to get some for the 83 I had, thought they were missing but found em later. I know lmc has them and somebody may have them on here used, which is where I got mines from.

That's a homemade body lift somebody hacked in there. The real kits reuse the stock bushings and just use a nylon block that's 3 inches for the lift.
 

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Old school drilled out hockey puck lift lol
 

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here's the ones I got from a member for mine when I thought they were gone these are for the rear of the cab....


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The last picture in #13 shows the rear cab mounts, what I’m looking at in the picture #10 the bed is setting metal to metal frame to bed and it’s still looks higher than the cab. Just my thoughts may need a larger rubber on the rear of the cab.
 

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The last picture in #13 shows the rear cab mounts, what I’m looking at in the picture #10 the bed is setting metal to metal frame to bed and it’s still looks higher than the cab. Just my thoughts may need a larger rubber on the rear of the cab.
 

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sorry I missed that last pic thought it was the rad support
 

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nevermind I see it
 

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ok now that I see things right that last pic in 13 if that has a rubber cushion inside of it then only option left, is shims to make it level with the bed.
well rubber or poly but eitherway if there's a bushing in that upper cup ... then as above shims

If those are new poly bushings you might want to see which one goes where maybe you have a bottom on top? Some kits have the same some have thicker and thinner.
 

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I am surprised nobody posted this to help him out,

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Thanks Mike
I have it right no bushings on the bed
 

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I’m looking for a stepside bed for this project I found one for thr early 70’s would just have to change the finders
 

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why would you need to change fenders? Is it not a 73-80 like it's for a 67-72?
 

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Factory Radiator support mounts look like this , the square one looks like a transmission mount bushing .
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It’s the older style not like the square body and it has a notch for a Spare tire
 

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