Looking through my asssy manual and noticed sect 10 sheet 3.02 is a page on
side mounted spare. I shows the spare as well as a spacer put between spring
and axle on the RH side. This would lower the right side I guess to match the
left. This supports what others have said about the purpose of the spacer but
differs from your spacer on the left side.
Grant 50 3100
Paul W. Franchina wrote:
> OK folks
> Here's an interesting one (I think). I dropped the rear axle housing out of
> Boris to take out the rear springs to renew the pivot bushings, pins and
> shackles and for general clean-up. When it came out I noticed that on the
> driver's side there was a plate, about the size of the pad on the axle
> housing and a half inch thick, between the pad and the spring. A spacer of
> sorts would be a good definition. However there was no such animal on the
> passenger side. From the looks of this plate (rather ancient) it could have
> been original, but where the truck had also been jacked up 3" by the PO,
> I'm just not sure. I've measured from the frame to the ground, and from the
> ground to the bottom of the springs on both sides and the measurements are
> close enough for me to question the need for a spacer at all. Has anyone
> encountered a situation like this? Would a chassis be so out of whack as to
> require a spacer? I checked my shop manual and couldn't find any references
> to this, so it's back to the "Collective Wisdom" to help solve this. Thanks
> guys (& gals) for any help.
>
> Paul W. Franchina
> pfoxtrot@gate.net
> & Boris: 1958 Chevrolet Apache 3100 Stepside
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