What have you done to your square lately??

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call them i normally call them to talk to a human thier toll free number is on the site.
 

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Why would you want to do that?

So the round part of the U bolt are on the bottom of the axle I makes it for better ground clearance.
 

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So the round part of the U bolt are on the bottom of the axle...

That is right side up, hence the name "U"bolt.....

Upside down would have you're bolts chewing rocks.....
 

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Alot of stock you bolts go face down where the bolts are on the leaf spring and the bolts on the bottom. The ones I picked up from school make it so the bolts are on the top.
 

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Alot of stock you bolts go face down where the bolts are on the leaf spring and the bolts on the bottom. The ones I picked up from school make it so the bolts are on the top.

I've never seen a Square bend U-bolt on a Squarebody...

EDIT: Guess 1-tons have them that way.
 
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There not quate square they are round but some of them run with the bolt part of the u bolt faceing the ground
 

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Alot of stock you bolts go face down where the bolts are on the leaf spring and the bolts on the bottom.


There not quate square they are round but some of them run with the bolt part of the u bolt faceing the ground

That they may be, and that is "upside down"...

It could be done for several reasons, but technically they are still "upside down"...

So in essence, you turned yours right side up....

http://www.offroaddesign.com/catalog/uboltreversal.htm
 

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i have a few more pics and i will have more info on it as i get it done posted in my build thread a link is my signature at the bottom of my posts.
 

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That is right side up, hence the name "U"bolt.....

Upside down would have you're bolts chewing rocks.....

I've never seen a Square bend U-bolt on a Squarebody...

EDIT: Guess 1-tons have them that way.

Yup, on the 1-tons.

There not quate square they are round but some of them run with the bolt part of the u bolt faceing the ground

Yes, the ends are square because they go over the springs, the springs aren't round. Still called u-bolts though.

That they may be, and that is "upside down"...

It could be done for several reasons, but technically they are still "upside down"...

So in essence, you turned yours right side up....

http://www.offroaddesign.com/catalog/uboltreversal.htm

They did it for frame clearance. The 1-tons have the springs mounted closer to the frame, if the nuts are on top they can run into the bumpstop bracket. Like this:

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removed factory oil pressure, volts, and temp gauge and installed mechanical gauges, i wish i could have gotten a picture that was a good one at night but my phone didn't want to take one that was even close to good but it is what it is lol

Looks whole lot like Mr Clean's Dash.
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I was real close to doing somehting similar untill i started finding where the PO had just unhooked the gauges from the engine and left the wires hanging because the sending units went bad and i guess he didnt like seeing the gauges reading wrong he was a real *******
 

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I've thought about doing what Clean did, then thought about selling these 2 I have and haven't done anything with them yet. They were bought for a project but plans changed. Still used the Tach and the Trio but now these lay around.

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got my modified vortec harness from luke (oneluckypops) today

it looks awsome he does great work for a really fair price. if you need a harness modified hit him up.
 

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