We're always glad to hear that our videos helped someone out! Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah, we've used multiple way to extract stubborn ones here in the past as well. Sometimes you just get lucky though!

Right on!

Does your truck have front leafs or coils Malik?

@@BROTHERSTruckPartsTV ;Currently factory shocks & it's 60or61 Chevy stepside.

@@malikdigger4544 so your truck has torsion bars. Very different to lower than this example or the later coil spring trucks. Call our shop and lets talk about options.

@@BROTHERSTruckPartsTV ; It's a long last fill one page in my notebook

You can, but you're getting into really low territory where you're going to start having clearance issues and problems with steering components like the pitman arm you mentioned.

Any time you are tinkering with a system on your truck, you should always inspect the associated items at the same time.

Both ways will give you negative caster, but power steering trucks use more caster than non-power steering trucks. The reason for that is the extra caster in the front end causes extra "work" to steer the truck, which is easily overcome by the power steering. Non-power steering uses less caster to make it easier to steer, albeit slightly less stable and likely to self straighten, than it would be with more caster.

@@BROTHERSTruckPartsTV pretty sure installing those shims fat side forward gives you more negative caster, and if you were to spin them 180, fat side toward the back of the truck, you’d get more positive caster. This would be the opposite of what your video states with regard to what a power steering vehicle, as opposed to a non power steering vehicle needs.

@@rickpazmino5820 Gotcha, we'll check into it. It's also possible the Drop Axle MFG called for it this way. The vid was shot a long time ago, so we can't remember off the top of our heads. Thanks for the reply!

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No drop spindle option, but you could go with a drop axle.

No sir, it will not. Contact Performance Online and see if they have one for your application. Thanks for watching!

We have a video for that. Its a coil spring/drop spindle installation. The process is the same for 1963-1987. To our knowledge there is no 3" spindle available, 2.25" is the lowest.

Thanks for the video.

@@Wrenchen-with-Darren thanks for watching!

We're not sure where to go for the parts for the '38. We only carry GM Truck parts from 1947-1987

I know the 32 chevy guy's bolt this 54 axle in to get juice brakes.

You can do both. It just depends on what you are going for. We suggest the drop axle first and then go from there

This drop axle will get you down exactly 3" from where you are whether you have stock springs or de-arced springs, so you can count on that. To answer your question, we can't remember if this truck had drop springs on it or not.

Ok, just looked back at our video when we installed the de-arced springs and the axle was not on it at the time. So, we have to assume when we installed the axle it already had the drop springs.

So difficult on those big trucks. Good luck with your project!

Just being funny! Good eye!

Contact our shop and we'll try to help. 800-977-2767

@@BROTHERSTruckPartsTV call tomorrow. Ty

It has to do with the "ease" of steering. + caster will actually be easier to turn the wheel due to how the weight of the front end falls on the tires. - caster is exactly the opposite and makes it slightly more difficult to turn but adds stability and helps the steering re-center itself after your make a turn.

@@BROTHERSTruckPartsTV My 55 chevy 3100 w/ straight axle & ps will pull one way or the other when I go through a dip in the road. All front end parts are tight with 4 degree shims to get positive caster. You say to go with negative caster. So is this article wrong? "Positive caster is when the steering axis is in front of the verticle. In a road car, this would mean that the top of the coilover would be pushed towards the rear of the car. Positive caster creates a lot of align torque (the force that straightens the steering wheel when you go forward) which improves straight line stability of the car. Due to the geometry of positive caster it also will increase negative camber gain (a good thing) when turning. As you increase positive caster the steering will get heavier also, but with modern power steering systems this is rarely a problem. Generally you want as much positive caster as you can reasonably get so long as the car is equipped with power steering". I'm at my wits end trying to figure how to get my steering safe. Thank you for any help you can give me.

@@cecilbarnes7854 We assume this article is not discussing a straight axle type front suspension. What you have described is called "bump steer", we suggest you try some Negative camber.

No sir, it only works on the 1/2 ton.

@@BROTHERSTruckPartsTV for what reason?

@@luigimarzaro8915 the 3600 uses different spindles and other various components. You could use this if you are ready to convert the entire front end to 1/2 parts.

@@BROTHERSTruckPartsTV I can front lower with the leaf spring ?

Sorry, we don't have any springs for the 3800.