3" Rear drop on 1981 pickup sr5 with mono leaf and overload

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  1. Dompadjudu

    Dompadjudu Newbie

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    So I'm doing a drop all around , I know with the front to just rekey the torsion.
    Now the fun part is the back I listened to the autozone clerk and bought ubolts about an 1" short so instead of trying to return them I think I'm gonna try and monoleaf it but keep the overload on and not use the 2.5 shims.
    I'm open to opinions and suggestions.
     
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    Unless this is strictly a show truck I wouldn't monoleaf. It's just not strong enough to be driven any real amount on.
     
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    He wants to pull the middle leaf. Not actually a mono leaf if the overload is there
     
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    Rear is done I just returned them and got the kit for 22.00 vs 2 ubolts for 19.00
     

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    Call me paranoid haha. I don't like the idea of removing leaves, I'd rather either go blocks, or above 2.5-3 inch just get them destressed at a truck place
     
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    Well I'm done for now, guess once I got under there it was pretty self-explanatory just put a 7/8 wrench on the top and just loosened the bolt till I had about an inch of thread left on the tip of the bolt to the top of the first nut. Might have to roll the fender a little but other than all that,... Screenshot_2016-07-25-22-58-55_1.jpg
     

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