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Bastard packs?

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Anyone ever made a bastard pack for our rigs and if so out of what and how much lift did it net? Im looking for cheap lift and not alot of work lol.
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After have 2 different packs apart, I'll it's a lot of work. lol Good luck.
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You don't net much lift. If you add 3/4" of leafs from the donor pack, you'll be lucky to get a full inch of lift. AMHIK.
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Um, nope, never done it.......... OH wait, you meant leaf springs, thats my specialty.
Im looking for cheap lift and not alot of work lol.
Not to sound like an A**, but look elsewhere.
...... You may be able to get SOME cheap lift, but it WILL be a good bit of work. Not likely you will get both and want to drive it after. If you add a whole 1T spring pack to your main spring you would gain a couple inches, but forget ride quality or flex. So then why have springs.

You may be better off swapping to different springs. I know F150 springs will net some lift in the rear, ~4" roughly and all you have to deal with is the metric vs standard bolts conversion. It gets discussed in my shackle flip thread here
http://www.ifsja.org/forums/vb/showthread.php?t=144373
Not sure what works up front, other than a SOA conversion.

I may do a write-up about bastard packs when I have more time.

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I cut the eyes off another main leaf (or buy a new main leaf and cut the eyes off the old one) to get slightly stiffer ride but the truck is back to stock height so sag is gone.
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the exploder springs with the f250 hanger sounds like a good route. i need 4" of lift in the rear and dont wanna run the stock shackle set up. i was thinking about taking springs out of my stock front springs and putting them in the rear to get rid of the blocks but that would make for a really stiff ride.
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the exploder springs with the f250 hanger sounds like a good route.
Watch what spring hanger you get, they are different widths.

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thanks for the info
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I'm curious what years your talking about here. I know there is a difference in springs between I thinks it is pre 74 and post 74. I have a 69 wagoneer that has 3 inch blocks with the stock springs and a shackle flip in the rear and 2 1/2 inch lift springs(spring under) and extended shackles in the front that gives approximately 4 inches of total lift. I would like to keep the same amount of lift and spring under up front but ditch the blocks out back. I would really interested in making my own to same some cash.
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